Shadow exchanges along the New Silk Roads / edited by Eva P. W. Hung and Tak-Wing Ngo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hung, Eva P. W., editor.

Ngo, Tak-Wing, 1962- editor.

Series:

Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 11.

Global Asia ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Informal sector (Economics)--Eurasia.

Informal sector (Economics).

Informal sector (Economics)--Asia.

Eurasia--Commerce--Asia.

Eurasia.

Asia--Commerce--Eurasia.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flows 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 and Road, hence extending the reach of the states to the shadow economies. 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. 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:

Introduction : informal exchanges and contending connectivity along the shadow silk roads / Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung

Fragmented sovereignty and unregulated flows : the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar corridor / Willem van Schendel

In and out of the shadows : Pakistan-China trade across the Karakoram Mountains / Hasan H. Karrar

Circulations in shadow corridors : connectivity in the Northern Bay of Bengal / Samuel Berthet

Past and present : shadows of the China-Ladakh-Pakistan routes / Vaijayanti Khare

Formal versus informal practices : trade of medicinal and aromatic plants via Trans-Himalayan Silk Road / Arjun Chapagain

Formal versus informal Chinese presence : the underbelly of hope in the Western Balkans / Jelena Gledić

State approaches to non-state interactions : cross-border flows in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan / Olga Y. Adams

Integration in post-Soviet Central Asia : shadow-economy practices and the cross-Eurasian flow of commodities / Ivan Zuenko

In the shadow of constructed borderlands : China's One Belt One Road and European economic governance / Susann Handke

High-end globalization and low-end globalization : African traders across Afro-Asia / Gordon Mathews.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70357-7

90-485-4134-4

9781003703570

OCLC:

1181773799