Market frictions: trade and urbanization at the Vietnam-China border

Author
Kirsten W. Endres

Publisher
New York, Oxford: Berghahn

Year of publication
2019

ISBN
978-1-78920-244-1

OPAC

Abstract
Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai. Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how “traditional” Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to meet the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time.