Venturing into "Barbarous" Regions

Transborder Trade among Migrant Yunnanese between Thailand and Burma, 1960s-1980s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3628384
AutoresWen-Chin Chang (0000-0003-2117-6219, Academia Sinica, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen68
Número02
Páginas543
Fecha de publicación2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911809000709
OpenAlexW2051917360
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas29

This essay examines the cross-border trade among the migrant Yunnanese between Burma and Thailand during the era of the Burmese socialist regime. It was a period when the Burmese government implemented a nationalized economic system and strictly forbade free movement and private trade. Taking a transborder perspective, the essay looks beyond government institutions and probes the mercantile agency of the migrant Yunnanese traders, which contributed to the formation of their socioeconomic mechanisms. The findings suggest that the economic practices of the Yunnanese traders in effect constituted a transnational popular realm that formed an informal oppositional power against the Thai and Burmese national bureaucracies on the one hand, and incorporated varied state agencies on the other hand

Agency (philosophy · Bureaucracy · Burmese · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic power · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Realm · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies