Cross-border traders in northern laos: mastering smallness
Auteur :
Rowedder, Simon
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781041177760
Date de publication :
1 déc. 2025
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
480 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book demonstrates that these traders’ indispensable but often invisible role in the everyday workings of the China-Laos-Thailand borderland economy relies on their rhetoric and practices of ‘smallness’—of framing their transnational trade activities in a self-deprecating manner and stressing their economic inferiority.