Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos : : Mastering Smallness / / Tina Harris, Simon Rowedder.

Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its la...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Asian Borderlands ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Language and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1 “We Are All Tai Lue”
  • 2 “Normal Fruits for Laos, Premium Fruits for China”
  • 3 “Thailand: High Quality; China: Low Price”
  • 4 “I Didn’t Learn Any Occupation, so I Trade”
  • 5 “No Matter What, We’ll Find a Way”
  • Conclusion: Large Insights from Smallness
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Asian Borderlands