|
This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust (Mis)trust and the Old Faith in the Russian Far EastDominic 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; List of Figures; Figure 1 Map of north-eastern Russia-China borderland; Figure 2 The Coat of Arms and official flag of Kyakhta, Russia Cover; 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 Figure 3 Advertisement for job vacancies in Russian border cities, Manzhouli commercial press, 2013Figure 4 Map of the Russian Far East border region; Figure 5 The border crossing at Hunchun-Kraskino; Figure 6 The 'Green Corner' market for used Japanese cars, Vladivostok; Figure 7 Trucks lining up to cross the border to transport coal from Mongolia to China, 2013; Figure 8 Buyan standing reflectively by an unused railway, 2013; Figure 9 Chinese market in Ussuriisk, 2016; Figure 10 'Patriotic' chairperson of the Vladivostok Old Believers Aleksandr Frolov (left) with Episcop German (centre) Figure 11 A s"ezd ('congress') of Far Eastern Old Believers in the mid-1990s held in Bolshoi Kamen'Figure 12 A young couple negotiates a purchase in the 'Eastern Breeze' development, Vladivostok, 2013; Figure 13 The 'Eastern Breeze' complex, Vladivostok, 2013; Figure 14 Chinese buyers scrupulously explore an old Chinese object put on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, UK Figure 15 Carl Fabergé's Easter egg, made predominantly of jade from a private collection of Viktor Vekselberg, the fourth richest person in Russia. The object is on display at special private museum in Saint-Petersburg, RussiaFigure 16 One of the Sunshine's operations. Guards reload raw jade to transport it across a river. Jade is on its way from mine to warehouse; Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China
|
