Under the state's gaze: Upland trading-scapes on the Sino-Vietnamese border

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-24

  Turner, Sarah ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethnic minorities; Greater Mekong Subregion; Sino Vietnam borderlands; Territorialization; Trade; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; ETHNIC MINORITY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; TERRITORIALITY; TRADE RELATIONS; UPLAND REGION;

CHINA; LAO CAI; MEKONG BASIN; VIET NAM; YUNNAN;

EID: 84874887308     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12010     Document Type: Article

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