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How the blended learning will be implemented depends on the development of the pandemic; Details will be agreed upon with the participants at the beginning of the semester. Content: This seminar explores the ways in which China’s sweeping Belt and Road Initiative is both shaping and re-shaping regional and transregional connections and transforming political,social and cultural configurations across Central Asia and China’s borderlands. The early sessions of the seminar examine historical relations between China and Central Asia before turning to contemporary developments leading up to the BRI. We then turnto detailed study of changing patterns of migration and mobility, ethnic relations, natural resource politics as well infrastructure development of transportation linkages, cultural politics and digital technologies. In this course, political science, anthropological and historical approaches are interlinked. This seminar is intended to be taken in combination with the accompanying Studienprojekte course of the same name. Learning Objectives: To develop an understanding of new spatial configurations as well as of local perspectives on transregional infrastructure projects such as BRI To familiarize students with historical and contemporary connections and relations between China and Central Asia To develop the ability to connect BRI-related topics with theoretical debates on globalisation and transregionalism in Chinese, Central Asian and Asian Studies close