Aleppo in Asia

Mercantile networks between Syria, China and post-Soviet Eurasia since 1970

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7796871
AutoresPaul Anderson (0000-0002-8156-5542, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen29
Númerosup1
PáginasS67-S83
Fecha de publicación2018-12-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2018.1513930
OpenAlexW2888875669
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas28

Indian Ocean and Mediterranean studies have highlighted the limitations imposed on our understanding of the dynamics of West Asia by the paradigm of area studies and the category of the ‘Middle East’. But less attention has been paid to how expansive perspectives that do not invoke an explicitly maritime geography might enrich our understanding of the region's formative connections. This article seeks to locate the modern city of Aleppo in a trans-regional Asian geography by tracing the shifting history of mercantile networks that connected Aleppo to other parts of Eurasia – notably, parts of the formerly Soviet world and the city of Yiwu in Southeast China. It highlights the importance of trans-regional flows of Soviet patronage, and then Chinese state subsidies and credit, in embedding Aleppo into these expansive circuits. It also argues that these flows have fostered the emergence of a hitherto-unstudied business class in Syria

Archaeology · China · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Expansive · Geography · Political science · State (computer science · China's Global Influence and Migration · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History