The Emergence of Cross-Border Electronic Commerce

Ryzhova, Natalia

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“…10. For an analysis of negative stereotypes surrounding Chinese workers and merchants in Russia from the nineteenth century see Billé (2012), Holzlehner (2014), Peshkov (2018), Ryzhova (2018), Skvirskaja (this issue). 11.…”

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Hierarchies of trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The case of an Uzbek merchant family from Tajikistan

Tirado¹

2018

History and Anthropology

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This article focuses on the trading trajectory of an Uzbek family of merchants from Tajikistan. This family runs businesses in both Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, and China's famous international trading city: Yiwu. The analysis is centred on the accounts placed by Tajikistan's Uzbek merchants about their historically sustained experience, often across several generations, in trading activities. These merchants' claims of belonging to a 'historical' trading community rather than being 'newcomers' to long-distance commerce are articulated in relation to notions of 'hierarchies of trade' as they evolve in a twofold relational model linking Yiwu's Changchun neighbourhood and Dushanbe. I suggest that the forms of conviviality enacted in Yiwu's Changchun neighbourhood need to be understood in terms of the historical, multinational and transregional contacts that have occurred within the spaces of the former Soviet Union, as well as along the China-Russia and China-Central Asian borders. Equally, the hierarchies of trade of Uzbek merchants from Tajikistan in Yiwu's Changchun neighbourhood cut-across markers of identity that juxtapose the roles of Tajik and Uzbek communities in Tajikistan's contemporary politics and economics.

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Hierarchies of trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The case of an Uzbek merchant family from Tajikistan

Tirado¹

2018

History and Anthropology

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“…Gradually, the competition of large import companies and wholesalers as well as restrictive actions of Russian authorities transformed the shuttle trade into wellestablished ternary networks composed of "a goods owner," "a cargo organizer," and "frontmen transporting goods" (Zhuravskaya, 2011). The proliferation of online commerce in China and the development of the leading e-commerce platforms Taobao and AliExpress have contributed to the emergence of a new business practice in the Russian−Chinese border area: an online trade mediation, which consists of assistance in purchasing online goods and delivering them across the border (Ryzhova, 2018).…”

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Cross-Border Tourism on the Russian–Chinese Border in 2014–2019: Customization of the Service Sectors of Border Cities for Chinese Tourists

Mikhailova

2021

Reg. Res. Russ.

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The article examines cross-border tourism and changes in the tourism industry that occurred at the Russian–Chinese borderland since 2014. Using two city pairs—Blagoveshchensk/Heihe and Khabarovsk/Fuyuan—as case studies, the article reveals that owing to the altered structure of tourist flows after the 2014 devaluation of the ruble, Russian and Chinese border cities have customized their services for Chinese tourists. Fieldwork data and data collected from the media analysis allowed mapping the service sector openness of border cities and demonstrating that central districts of border cities concentrate the majority of businesses catering to clients from the neighboring state. This finding confirms the role of central districts of border cities as thermometers of cross-border dynamics as they react first to fluctuations in exchange rates and tourist flows. Based on an assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cross-border flows and the tourism industry at the Russian–Chinese borderland, it was concluded that an earlier reorientation towards domestic tourists (after 2014) allowed Heihe and Fuyuan to be more prepared for the next external shock. The tourism industry in Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk suffered significant losses and found itself in a situation of high uncertainty, in which it was impossible to predict the timing of resumed arrivals of Chinese tourists.

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African trading brokers in China: The internet, Covid‐19 and the transformation of low‐end globalization

Mathews

2022

J of Intl Development

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African trading brokers in China buy knock‐off or copy goods and move them through customs via bribery to African ports; this trade, although illegal, brings desired global products to Africa. This paper, based on interviews with African trading brokers, examines how the internet and Covid‐19 have affected their trade. African customers can now find out the accurate prices of goods; computerized customs regimes make bribery difficult; and Covid‐19 has raised shipping costs. While the informal economic arrangements of these trading brokers will probably continue despite policymakers' efforts to eradicate them, China may no longer be the source of their goods.

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The Emergence of Cross-Border Electronic Commerce

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Hierarchies of trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The case of an Uzbek merchant family from Tajikistan

Hierarchies of trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The case of an Uzbek merchant family from Tajikistan

Cross-Border Tourism on the Russian–Chinese Border in 2014–2019: Customization of the Service Sectors of Border Cities for Chinese Tourists

African trading brokers in China: The internet, Covid‐19 and the transformation of low‐end globalization

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