@article{859387,
      recid = {859387},
      author = {Bianchi, Robert,},
      title = {China and the Islamic world : how the new Silk Road is  transforming global politics /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) :},
      abstract = {" China is building a New Silk Road that runs through the  heartland of the Muslim world, promising it will create  integrated economies and stronger ties across Eurasia and  Africa. Robert R. Bianchi argues that while China has the  financial and technical resources to accomplish its  infrastructure goals, it is woefully unprepared to deal  with the social and political demands of its partner  countries' citizens. China and the Islamic World explores  how China's leaders and citizens are learning-through their  relationships with Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran,  Nigeria and Egypt-that they have to respect and adjust to  the aspirations of ordinary people throughout the Islamic  world, not just cater to the narrow band of government and  business elites. Bianchi demonstrates that turbulent  countries along the New Silk Road are likely to transform  Chinese society at least as much as China changes them.  This realization will be deeply unsettling for China's  authoritarian rulers, who desperately want to monopolize  power domestically. The party and state bosses have  responded to challenges with a contradictory blend of  flexibility abroad and rigidity at home, compromising with  popular demands in one country after another while refusing  to negotiate many of the same issues with their own  citizens. This book shows how China faces a growing  struggle to maintain their double-sided statecraft as it  becomes apparent that the New Silk Road is not a one way  street. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859387},
}