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1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Global Asia
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Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges have already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flow have largely been outside state control, and are pushed to the realm of the shadow economy. The official initiative is a state-driven attempt to enhance the orderly flow of resources across countries along the Belt-Road, hence extending the reach of the states to the shadow economies. This volume offers a bottom-up view of the trans-border informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt-Road cooperation. By undertaking a comparative study of country cases along the new silk roads, the book underlines the intended and unintended consequences of such competing routes of connectivity on the socio-economic conditions of local communities. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: informal exchanges and contending connectivity along the shadow silk roads / Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung -- 2. Fragmented sovereignty and unregulated flows: the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar corridor / Willem van Schendel -- 3. In and out of the shadows: Pakistan-China trade across the Karakoram Mountains / Hasan H. Karrar -- 4. Circulations in shadow corridors: connectivity in the Northern Bay of Bengal / Samuel Berthet -- 5. Past and present: shadows of the China-Ladakh-Pakistan routes / Vaijayanti Khare -- 6. Formal versus informal practices: trade of medicinal and aromatic plants via Trans-Himalayan Silk Road / Arjun Chapagain -- 7. Formal versus informal Chinese presence: the underbelly of hope in the Western Balkans / Jelena Gledić -- 8. State approaches to non-state interactions: cross-border flows in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan / Olga Y. Adams -- 9. Integration in post-Soviet Central Asia: shadow-economy practices and the cross-Eurasian flow of commodities / Ivan Zuenko -- 10. In the shadow of constructed borderlands: China's One Belt One Road and European economic governance / Susann Handke -- 11. High-end globalization and low-end globalization: African traders across Afro-Asia / Gordon Mathews.-- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Borderlands -- Social aspects -- Asia.
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Borderlands. |
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Social aspects. |
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Asia. |
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Asia -- Commerce -- Eurasia.
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Commerce. |
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Eurasia. |
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Eurasia -- Commerce -- Asia.
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Informal sector (Economics) -- Asia.
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Informal sector (Economics) |
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Informal sector (Economics) -- Eurasia.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hung, Eva P. W., editor.
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Ngo, Tak-Wing, 1962- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shadow exchanges along the new silk roads. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020] 9462988935 (OCoLC)1142526278 |
| ISBN |
9789048541348 (electronic book) |
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9048541344 (electronic book) |
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9789462988934 (hardback) |
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9462988935 (hardback) |
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