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Record Nr.

UNISA996309229303316

Titolo

Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands / edited by Caroline Humphrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

90-485-2898-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Asian borderlands ; ; 6

Disciplina

337.51

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

Electronic books.

Russia (Federation) Foreign economic relations China

China Foreign economic relations Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : trusting and mistrusting across borders / Caroline Humphrey -- Dejà 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 -- Differances of Doverie : (mis)trust and the old faith in the Russian Far East / Dominic 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.