Ye Guest Edits Special Issue of Journal of East Asian Studies
Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has co-edited and published articles in the latest issue of Cambridge University Press’ Journal of East Asian Studies.
The issue explored economic issues affecting East Asia and focuses predominantly on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It includes two articles by Ye – “Chinese Capital Goes Global: The Belt and Road Initiative and Beyond,” and “Fragmented Motives and Policies: The Belt and Road Initiative in China” – and also features Pardee School professor Kevin Gallagher and Bo Kong’s insights on domestic institutional account for China’s overseas coal-powered plants; Haitao Yin and his colleagues at Jiaotong University’s research on local governments’ implementation of BRI under the tightening domestic environmental regulation; Weiyi Shi’s empirical test of China’s reputation deficit in investing in Zambia and the institutional explanation; as well as Audry Wong’s study of China’s economic statecraft in Australia and the political backlash.
An excerpt from Ye’s introductory article’s abstract:
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and China’s state-led model for economic globalization more generally, have attracted controversy: Are state-led overseas investment and lending driven by strategic motives or market rationale? How have the recipient economies reacted to the influx of Chinese capital? This special issue sheds light on these questions by first outlining the fragmented state system driving the BRI, a system featuring both Beijing’s strategic logic at the top and market considerations in policy implementation.
This issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies is the result of a workshop – Communist Capital Globalizes: The Belt and Road & Beyond – hosted by the Pardee School’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, which took place on November 16, 2018. The full issue can be accessed on the Journal of East Asian Studies website.
Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her most recent book, titled The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 (Cambridge University Press 2020), explores the motivations and strategies behind China’s global economic expansion and considers the implications of the country’s status as a global power on both China and the world. Read more about Ye on her faculty profile.