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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.

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Author:   Caroline Humphrey ,  Willem van Schendel ,  Tina Harris ,  Sayana Namsaraeva
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Edition:   0
Volume:   6
ISBN:  

9789089649829

ISBN 10:   9089649824
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Trusting and Mistrusting Across Borders Caroline Humphrey Déjà 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 Différances 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 The Emergence of Cross-Border Electronic Commerce Creativity and Declining Trust Natalia Ryzhova Index

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Given the changing political and economic relationship between China and Russia in recent years, this collection of research on the Sino-Russian borderlands is especially timely and insightful. - Xiaochen Su, *International Journal of Asian Studies*, May 2019

"""Given the changing political and economic relationship between China and Russia in recent years, this collection of research on the Sino-Russian borderlands is especially timely and insightful."" - Xiaochen Su, *International Journal of Asian Studies*, May 2019"

Given the changing political and economic relationship between China and Russia in recent years, this collection of research on the Sino-Russian borderlands is especially timely and insightful. - Xiaochen Su, *International Journal of Asian Studies*, May 2019

Author Information

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. 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.

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