China in Uzbekistan: An investigation into the effects of the BRI on trade, migration, and Chinese language education

Funder: WUIT Collaborative Research Fund
Amount: 9,710 pounds ​​
2019 - 2021 

The project team is comprised of a multi-lingual team of researchers based in London and Tashkent. The research aims...
  • to map out different types of investment (Chinese government investment/loans, State-Owned Enterprise investment, private investment) into relevant sectors over the last ten years;
  • to map Chinese migration to Uzbekistan associated with the development of BRI;
  • to map the establishment of Confucius institutes and classrooms, and to analyse data in relation to Chinese language learning and teaching as well as the need for Chinese language interpreting and translation;
  • to map media coverage of China and BRI in two main Uzbek publications.​

Conference on 9 June 2021
BRI in the Shadow of Covid19: Central Asian Perspectives
Photo used under Creative Commons from Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn)