TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rowedder,Simon
AU  - Harris,Tina
AU  - Schendel,Willem
TI  - Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness 
T2  - Asian Borderlands
SN  - 9789463722360
AV  - HC443 .R683 2022
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - China
KW  - Laos
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - East Asia and North East Asia
KW  - Economics and Finance
KW  - South East Asia
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, cross-border trade, smallness
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Maps and Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Language and Transliteration --; Introduction --; 1 “We Are All Tai Lue” --; 2 “Normal Fruits for Laos, Premium Fruits for China” --; 3 “Thailand: High Quality; China: Low Price” --; 4 “I Didn’t Learn Any Occupation, so I Trade” --; 5 “No Matter What, We’ll Find a Way” --; Conclusion: Large Insights from Smallness --; Bibliography --; Index --; Asian Borderlands; restricted access
N2  - Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its larger neighbours, attention is seldom paid to local voices. This book fills this gap. Building on long-term multi-sited fieldwork, it accompanies northern Lao cross-border traders closely in their transnational worlds of mobilities, social relations, economic experimentation and aspiration. Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness 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. Decoding their discursive surface of insignificance, this ethnography of ‘smallness’ foregrounds remarkable transnational social and economic skills that are mostly invisible in Sino-Southeast Asian borderland scholarship
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554409?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048554409
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048554409/original
ER  -