Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert

Mobilities

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-569

  Pedersen, Morten Axel ^a   Bunkenborg, Mikkel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

China; infrastructure; Inner Asia; Mongolia; roads; Social relations; technologies of distantiation

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

CHINA; MONGOLIA;

EID: 84868564293     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718938     Document Type: Article

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