Transboundary market in Blagoveshchensk: the formation of the new reality by the business networks of the “shuttle-traders”

Abstract

The paper deals with the business networks of the “shuttle-traders” that operate on the Russian-Chinese border. With the help of the examples of Blagoveshchensk and Hihe the author analyses the specificity of the new transboundary localalities which appear on the states’ borders. The author tries to understand how the everyday economic practices of local “shuttle-traders” influence the organization of social and economic space. The research is based on the qualitative methods.