A tale of three marketplaces

Chinese commodities, European fairs, Vietnamese entrepreneurs

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7785486
AutoresMarina Marouda (Research Associate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume20
Fascículo4
Páginas725-745
Data de publicação2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12273
OpenAlexW2994538565
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas30

This article is based on ethnographic research undertaken over the course of a year (2017) in three wholesale marketplaces situated in Warsaw (Poland), Odessa (Ukraine) and Yiwu (China). Daily transactions in these wholesale fairs span different continents, linking East Asia to Eastern Europe. Key in assembling such far‐reaching trading networks are Chinese‐made commodities, Vietnamese diasporas and European trade regulations. In this article, I pay particular attention to entrepreneurial Vietnamese as they sojourned to Eastern Europe, originally as part of exchanges that sought to create a ‘socialist ecumene

Archaeology · Business · China · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Situated · Vietnamese · China's Global Influence and Migration · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies