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Beskrivning
This volume offers a bottom-up view of the transborder informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt and Road cooperation.
Eva P.W. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science, the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include contentious politics, cross-border exchanges, shadow economy, state-society relations, and China studies. She has published articles in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Modern China, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Social Indicators Research.Tak-Wing Ngo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. He works on East Asian politics and political economy. He formerly taught at Leiden University and was the IIAS Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the editor of the refereed journal China Information and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
Innehållsförteckning
Preface, List of Illustrations, 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 Practice: Trade of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Trans-Himalayan Silk Road,Arjun Chapagain, 7. Formal versus Informal Chinese Presence: The Underbelly of Hope in the Western Balkans,Jelena Gledi?, 8. State Approaches to Nonstate 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.
