Foreword / Wang Gungwu
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: China’s “Rise” in Southeast Asia from a Bottom-Up Perspective / Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan
Part One | Identities
1. Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How Migrants from China Are Changing the Meaning of Ch-ineseness in Cambodia / Pál Nyíri
2. Multiplying Diversities: How “New” Chinese Mobilities Are Changing Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Weiqiang Lin
3. Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism: Hui Business and Religious Activities in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai Weng
Part Two | Livelihoods
4. Border Guanxi: Xinyimin and Transborder Trade in Northern Thailand / Aranya Siriphon
5. Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland / Caroline Grillot and Juan
Part Three | Norms
6. Entangling Alliances: Elite Cooperation and Competition in the Philippines and China / Caroline S. Hau
7. Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands: An Alternative Account of State-Formation in Laos / Danielle Tan
8. “China in Burma”: A Multiscalar Political Economy Analysis / Kevin Woods
9. Water Governance in the Mekong Basin: Scalar Trade-offs, Transnational Norms, and Chinese Hydropower Investment / Oliver Hensengerth
Part Four | Aspirations
10. “Search for Knowledge as Far as China!” Indonesian Responses to the Rise of China / Johanes Herlijanto
11. Stimulating Circuits: Chinese Desires and Transnational Affective Economies in Southeast Asia / Chris Lyttleton
Glossary of Chinese Characters
References
Contributors
Index