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Title Trust and mistrust in the economies of the China-Russia borderlands / edited by Caroline Humphrey.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
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still image sti rdacontent
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online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Asian borderlands ; [6]
Asian borderlands ; 6.
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.
Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Trusting and Mistrusting Across Borders; Caroline Humphrey; Déjà vu of Distrust in the Sino-Russian Borderlands; Sayana Namsaraeva; Economies of Trust; Informality and the State in the Russian-Chinese borderland; Tobias Holzlehner; Can Kinship Come to the Rescue?; Trust and Cooperation across the Border between China and Mongolia; Nasan Bayar; Betrayed by Trust; Inter-Korean Relations across Northeast Asian Borders; Hyun-Gwi Park; The Trade Town of Manzhouli; Trust Created and Undermined; Ivan Peshkov; Différances of Doverie.
(Mis)trust and the Old Faith in the Russian Far EastDominic Martin; Trust, Chance and Disappointment; Real Estate Business in Russia's Far East; Caroline Humphrey; Searching for Trust; Indigenous People in the Jade Business; Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha, and Pavel Sulyandziga; The Emergence of Cross-Border Electronic Commerce; Creativity and Declining Trust; Natalia Ryzhova; Index; List of Figures; Figure 1 Map of north-eastern Russia-China borderland; Figure 2 The Coat of Arms and official flag of Kyakhta, Russia.
Figure 3 Advertisement for job vacancies in Russian border cities, Manzhouli commercial press, 2013Figure 4 Map of the Russian Far East border region; Figure 5 The border crossing at Hunchun-Kraskino; Figure 6 The 'Green Corner' market for used Japanese cars, Vladivostok; Figure 7 Trucks lining up to cross the border to transport coal from Mongolia to China, 2013; Figure 8 Buyan standing reflectively by an unused railway, 2013; Figure 9 Chinese market in Ussuriisk, 2016; Figure 10 'Patriotic' chairperson of the Vladivostok Old Believers Aleksandr Frolov (left) with Episcop German (centre).
Figure 11 A s"ezd ('congress') of Far Eastern Old Believers in the mid-1990s held in Bolshoi Kamen'Figure 12 A young couple negotiates a purchase in the 'Eastern Breeze' development, Vladivostok, 2013; Figure 13 The 'Eastern Breeze' complex, Vladivostok, 2013; Figure 14 Chinese buyers scrupulously explore an old Chinese object put on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, UK.
Figure 15 Carl Fabergé's Easter egg, made predominantly of jade from a private collection of Viktor Vekselberg, the fourth richest person in Russia. The object is on display at special private museum in Saint-Petersburg, RussiaFigure 16 One of the Sunshine's operations. Guards reload raw jade to transport it across a river. Jade is on its way from mine to warehouse; Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China.
Language Undetermined.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject I hwa yeo ja dae hag gyo Han gug saeng hwal gwa hag yeon gu won
China -- Foreign economic relations -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign economic relations -- China.
Eastern Europe.
Europe.
Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Russia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
International economic relations
China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
Russia (Federation) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhmCp3jtcMQbx3WgpXVC
Grenzgebiet
Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation
Außenhandel
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Vertrauen
China -- Nord
Ferner Osten Russland
Mongolei
Indexed Term Borderlands
China
Russia
Trade
Added Author Humphrey, Caroline, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Trust and mistrust in the economies of the China-Russia borderlands. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018 9089649824 (OCoLC)1010970859
ISBN 9789048528981 (electronic bk.)
9048528984 (electronic bk.)
9789089649829
9089649824
Standard No. 10.5117/9789089649829 doi
CHNEW 001000712
CHVBK 514582278

 
    
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