"A comparative anthropological study of Chinese globalization, this book explores the emergence of a global polity and the implications of collaborative endeavors and failures through ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique."

Over the centuries, interest in the Arctic and the commercial and strategic potential of its sea lanes and natural resources has been persistent, from the fur trading empires of Rupert’s Land and Russian America to our own time – but climatic conditions prevented the region’s full...