Negotiating remote borderland access: Small-scale trade on the Vietnam-China border

Development and Change

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 667-696

  Schoenberger, Laura ^a   Turner, Sarah ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; COMMODITY; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; ETHNICITY; FOREIGN POLICY; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; TRADE RELATIONS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 53549085165     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2008.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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