Flowing goods, hardening borders? China’s commercial expansion into Kyrgyzstan re-examined1

Eurasian Geography and Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 433-456

  Alff, Henryk ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY   (Germany)

Author keywords

actor centered and ethnographic approaches; bazaar trade; Central Asia; development; transformation

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CLOTHING INDUSTRY; ETHNOGRAPHY; GOODS EXCHANGE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; TRADE RELATIONS;

CHINA; KYRGYZSTAN;

EID: 84978512504     PISSN: 15387216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2016.1200993     Document Type: Article

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