Caroline Humphrey is a research director at the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

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List of Figures

Figure 1 Map of north-eastern Russia-China borderland

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Sayana Namsaraeva

Figure 2 The Coat of Arms and official flag of Kyakhta, Russia

Figure 3 Advertisement for job vacancies in Russian border cities, Manzhouli commercial press, 2013

Tobias Holzlehner

Figure 4 Map of the Russian Far East border region

Figure 5 The border crossing at Hunchun-Kraskino

Figure 6 The 'Green Corner' market for used Japanese cars, Vladivostok

Nasan Bayar

Figure 7 Trucks lining up to cross the border to transport coal from Mongolia to China, 2013

Figure 8 Buyan standing reflectively by an unused railway, 2013

Hyun-Gwi Park

Figure 9 Chinese market in Ussuriisk, 2016

Ivan Peshkov

Dominic Martin

Figure 11 A s"ezd ('congress') of Far Eastern Old Believers in the mid-1990s held in Bolshoi Kamen'

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Figure 12 A young couple negotiates a purchase in the 'Eastern Breeze' development, Vladivostok, 2013

Figure 13 The 'Eastern Breeze' complex, Vladivostok, 2013

Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha, and Pavel Sulyandziga

Figure 14 Chinese buyers scrupulously explore an old Chinese object put on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, UK

Figure 15 Carl Fabergé's Easter egg, made predominantly of jade from a private collection of Viktor Vekselberg, the fourth richest person in Russia. The object is on display at special private museum in Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Figure 16 One of the Sunshine's operations. Guards reload raw jade to transport it across a river. Jade is on its way from mine to warehouse

Natalia Ryzhova

Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China

Index

This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.