Abstract:
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, RussiaCover; 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 DoverieFigure 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, UKFigure 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
