New Book: “New Silk Road Narratives: Local Perspectives on Chinese Presence along the Belt and Road Initiative” ed. by J. Adeli & L. Ammann (HASP, 2024)

A new Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing (HASP) open access publication is out that might interest ReNetMoCoCA members, colleagues and friends:

New Silk Road Narratives: Local Perspectives on Chinese Presence along the Belt and Road Initiative, edited by Jamila Adeli and Linda Ammann.
Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024. ISBN 978-3-98887-001-8 (SC), ISBN 978-3-98887-000-1 (PDF), DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1370

It is not only goods, financial capital or technologies that are being traded, negotiated and circulated along the China-led Belt and Road Initiative but also values, emotions and cultural practices. The latter are often decisive when imagining and establishing a transregional infrastructure of the scale of the BRI. This book explores connections and disconnections along the New Silk Roads through narratives and their cultural configurations. Focusing on China-Africa-relations, the authors of this book investigate the role of narratives and various forms of cultural configurations to understand how processes of transregionalization shape local patterns of thought, perception and practice.

The PDF and HTML versions of the book with integrated audio-files of podcasts and interviews are available for free download on our HASP platform,
A softcover edition also has been published, which can be purchased via stationary bookshops and online booksellers.

The editors claim “It is a book that appeals to more than one of our senses – read it, listen to it and watch it!”.

For anyone interesting in publishing HASP, more information can be found under the heading “Publishing” of their publishing page.