Humphrey Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-485-2898-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

The first English-language book to focus on northeast Sino-Russian border economies, Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands examines how trans-border economies function in practice. The authors offer an anthropological understanding of trust in juxtaposition to the economy and the state. They argue that the history of suspicion and the securitised character of the Sino-Russian border mean that trust is at a premium. The chapters show how diverse kinds of cross-border business manage to operate, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humphrey, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover Table of Contents List of Figures Figure 1 Map of north-eastern Russia-China borderland Caroline Humphrey Sayana Namsaraeva 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, 2013 Tobias Holzlehner Figure 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 Nasan Bayar 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 Hyun-Gwi Park Figure 9 Chinese market in Ussuriisk, 2016 Ivan Peshkov Dominic Martin Figure 11 A s”ezd (‘congress’) of Far Eastern Old Believers in the mid-1990s held in Bolshoi Kamen’ Caroline Humphrey Figure 12 A young couple negotiates a purchase in the ‘Eastern Breeze’ development, Vladivostok, 2013 Figure 13 The ‘Eastern Breeze’ complex, Vladivostok, 2013 Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha, and Pavel Sulyandziga 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, Russia Figure 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 Natalia Ryzhova Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China Index

Über Autor(innen)

Humphrey, Caroline
Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.

Schendel Willem:
Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.Humphrey Caroline:
Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.