This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and that some Latin American countries held in...

Introduction: mapping multiple Chinas on the development landscape -- Transpacific assemblages: tracing development encounters over space and time -- Chinese diaspora: migration and the making of Central American modernity -- Taiwan: diplomatic, economic, and cultural associations with the...