Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Language and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 “We Are All Tai Lue”: International Trade Fairs as Local Ethnic Affairs
- 2 “Normal Fruits for Laos, Premium Fruits for China”: Transnational Flows of National Differences
- 3 Thailand: High Quality; China: Low Price”: “Banal Cosmopolitanism” in Local Marketplaces
- 4 “I Didn’t Learn Any Occupation, so I Trade”: Narratives of Insignificance
- 5 “No Matter What, We’ll Find a Way”: Uncertain (Chinese?) Futures
- Conclusion: Large Insights from Smallness
- Bibliography
- Index
- Asian Borderlands
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Language and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 “We Are All Tai Lue”: International Trade Fairs as Local Ethnic Affairs
- 2 “Normal Fruits for Laos, Premium Fruits for China”: Transnational Flows of National Differences
- 3 Thailand: High Quality; China: Low Price”: “Banal Cosmopolitanism” in Local Marketplaces
- 4 “I Didn’t Learn Any Occupation, so I Trade”: Narratives of Insignificance
- 5 “No Matter What, We’ll Find a Way”: Uncertain (Chinese?) Futures
- Conclusion: Large Insights from Smallness
- Bibliography
- Index
- Asian Borderlands
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- Cross-Border Traders in Northern LaosMastering Smallness, pp. 253 - 260Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022