Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads / / ed. by Eva P. W. Hung, Tak-Wing Ngo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Olga Y.,; Berthet, Samuel,; Chapagain, Arjun,; Gledić, Jelena,; Handke, Susann,; Hung, Eva P.W.,; Karrar, Hasan H.,; Khare, Vaijayanti,; Mathews, Gordon,; Ngo, Tak-Wing,; Schendel, Willem van,; Zuenko, Ivan,
• HerausgeberIn: Hung, Eva P. W.,; Ngo, Tak-Wing,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Global Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges have already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flow 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-Road, hence extending the reach of the states to the shadow economies. This volume offers a bottom-up view of the trans-border informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt-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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fragmented sovereignty and unregulated flows -- 3. In and out of the shadows -- 4. Circulations in shadow corridors -- 5. Past and present -- 6. Formal versus informal practices -- 7. Formal versus informal Chinese presence -- 8. State approaches to non-state interactions -- 9. Integration in post-Soviet Central Asia -- 10. In the shadow of constructed borderlands -- 11. High-end globalization and low-end globalization -- Index