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Title: | Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland | Contributor(s): | Grillot, Caroline (author); Zhang, Juan (author) | Publication Date: | 2017 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22181 | Abstract: | THE NIGHT IS FALLING UPON THE RED RIVER. GLITTERING LIGHTS, blaring music, and noise from dozens of new shops along the riverbanks in Hekou, a small border city located where China joins Vietnam, give the night a boisterous atmosphere. But according to locals, these new buildings were not a welcome sight for their Vietnamese neighbors living across the river in Lao Cai. Their views of the river were blocked, they said, and the noise at night was too loud and disruptive; these structures were construed as an ominous sign of the strong Chinese presence at the border. Indeed, since the late 1990s, the opening of Chinese border ports as Special Economic Zones attracted hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial Chinese to migrate to the margins of China and venture into cross-border trade. At different locations along the China-Vietnam borderlands, fastpaced development projects mushroomed to stimulate bilateral economic exchange. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region, p. 97-115 | Publisher: | University of Washington Press | Place of Publication: | Seattle, United States of America | ISBN: | 9780295999302 9780295999296 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 441016 Urban sociology and community studies | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an57675711 | Editor: | Editor(s): Pal Nyiri, Danielle Tan |
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