Susanne Fehlings is Senior Researcher at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main. Her regional focus is the Caucasus. She specializes in urban and economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and research on bazaars, trade activity and entrepreneurship. Hasan H. Karrar is Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is a specialist of China and Central Asia with a special interest in new economic and political linkages since the Cold War.

• 1. Negotiating state and society: the normative informal economies of Central Asia and the Caucasus 2. Trading in Dordoi and Lilo bazaars: frontiers of formality, entrepreneurship and globalization 3. The traders of Central Bazaar, Astana: motivation and networks 4. The formal side of informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography 5. Markets at sacred sites: the globalized mobility and informality of the Armenian religious fairs 6. The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in Barakholka, Almaty 7. Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing: (inter-)ethnic entrepreneurship, trust and friendship between Caucasian and Chinese traders 8. Business 2.0: Kyrgyz middlemen in Guangzhou 9. Trade ‘outside the law’: Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu and South-Central Asia

Susanne Fehlings is Senior Researcher at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main. Her regional focus is the Caucasus. She specializes in urban and economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and research on bazaars, trade activity and entrepreneurship. Hasan H. Karrar is Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is a specialist of China and Central Asia with a special interest in new economic and political linkages since the Cold War.

• 1. Negotiating state and society: the normative informal economies of Central Asia and the Caucasus 2. Trading in Dordoi and Lilo bazaars: frontiers of formality, entrepreneurship and globalization 3. The traders of Central Bazaar, Astana: motivation and networks 4. The formal side of informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography 5. Markets at sacred sites: the globalized mobility and informality of the Armenian religious fairs 6. The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in Barakholka, Almaty 7. Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing: (inter-)ethnic entrepreneurship, trust and friendship between Caucasian and Chinese traders 8. Business 2.0: Kyrgyz middlemen in Guangzhou 9. Trade ‘outside the law’: Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu and South-Central Asia