Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City

Publications

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

The Alternative Histories of Muslim Asia’s Urban Centres: De-Cosmopolitanisation and Beyond

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 38/1, 2020, Page(s) 9-32, ISSN 1395-4199
Publisher: Handelshoejskolen i Koebenhavn
DOI: 10.22439/cjas.v38i1.6059

Conference proceedings (6)

Post-Soviet Perspectives: Yiwu’s Futian market as a modelwholesale marketplace

Author(s): Skvirskaja, Vera
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

Policy Briefing 1: Networks, Institutions and Nodes in Eurasian Trade

Author(s): Marsden, Magnus
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

Briefing 4: Leveraging trade for development: policy implications from the Yiwu experience

Author(s): Rui, Huaichuan
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

Afghan Trading Networks, Geopolitics and Everyday Diplomacy: Transcending West Asia’s Northern and Southern Tiers

Author(s): Marsden, Magnus
Published in: Middle East Institute Insights, 2019
Publisher: National University of Singapore

Policy Briefing 2: Social Infrastructures of the New Silk Road

Author(s): Anderson, Paul
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

Understanding the significance of trust to the trading networks that connect China to the world.

Author(s): Marsden, Magnus
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

Monographic books (2)

Beyond the Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility and Geopolitics across Eurasia

Author(s): Marsden, Magnus
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9781108974387
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History

Author(s): Marsden, Magnus Hopkins, Benjamin D.
Published in: Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Asian History, 2019, ISBN 9780-190277727
Publisher: Ocford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.119

Peer reviewed articles (28)

Islamic cosmopolitanism out of Muslim Asia: Hindu–Muslim business co-operation between Odessa and Yiwu

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: History and Anthropology, 29/1, 2017, Page(s) 121-139, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2017.1359587

Civility and diplomacy: trust and dissimulation in transnational Afghan trading networks

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: Anthropological Theory, 2018, ISSN 1463-4996
Publisher: SAGE Publications

Beyond Bukhara: Trade, identity and interregional exchange across Asia

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2018, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1496915

Hierarchies of Trade in Yiwu and Dushanbe: The Case of an Uzbek Merchant Family from Tajikistan

Author(s): Diana Ibañez Tirado
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2018, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1506776

Aleppo in Asia: Mercantile networks between Syria, China and post-Soviet Eurasia since 1970

Author(s): Paul Anderson
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2018, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1513930

‘Russian merchant’ legacies in post-Soviet trade with China: Moral economy, economic success and business innovation in Yiwu

Author(s): Vera Skvirskaja
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2018, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1496916

Yiwu: Historical transformation and contributing factors

Author(s): Huaichuan Rui
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2018, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1516654

Merchant identities, trading nodes and globalisation

Author(s): Marsden, Magnus and Skvirskaja
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2018, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers

Alternate Modes of Prosperity

Author(s): Retsikas, Kostas and Marsden, Magnus
Published in: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2018, ISSN 2575-1433
Publisher: Chicago University Press

“An Abundance of Meaning”: Ramadan as an Enchantment of Society and Economy in Syria

Author(s): Anderson, Paul
Published in: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2018, ISSN 2575-1433
Publisher: Chicago University Press

Beyond Syria’s war economy: Trade, migration and state formation across Eurasia

Author(s): Paul Anderson
Published in: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2019, Page(s) 187936651881465, ISSN 1879-3665
Publisher: Hanyang University
DOI: 10.1177/1879366518814657

Whither West Asia? Exploring North–South perspectives on Eurasia

Author(s): Magnus Marsden, Till Mostowlansky
Published in: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2019, Page(s) 187936651881493, ISSN 1879-3665
Publisher: Hanyang University
DOI: 10.1177/1879366518814931

Muslim circulations and networks in West Asia: Ethnographic perspectives on transregional connectivity

Author(s): Magnus Marsden, David Henig
Published in: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2019, Page(s) 187936651881466, ISSN 1879-3665
Publisher: Hanyang University
DOI: 10.1177/1879366518814668

Marginal hubs: on conviviality beyond the urban in Asia. Modern Asian

Author(s): Magnus Marsden Madeleine Reeves
Published in: Modern Asian Studies, 2019, ISSN 0026-749X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Actually existing silk roads

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 8/1, 2017, Page(s) 22-30, ISSN 1879-3665
Publisher: Hanyang University
DOI: 10.1016/j.euras.2016.11.006

Gold Teeth, Indian Dresses, Chinese Lycra and ‘Russian’ Hair: Embodied Diplomacy and the Assemblages of Dress in Tajikistan

Author(s): Diana Ibañez-Tirado
Published in: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 34/2, 2016, Page(s) 23-41, ISSN 0305-7674
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/ca.2016.340203

‘We Are Both Diplomats and Traders’ Afghan Transregional Traders Across the Former Soviet Union

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 34/2, 2016, ISSN 0305-7674
Publisher: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/ca.2016.340205

Everyday Diplomacy

Author(s): Magnus Marsden, Diana Ibañez-Tirado, David Henig
Published in: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 34/2, 2016, Page(s) 2:22, ISSN 0305-7674
Publisher: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/ca.2016.340202

A tale of three marketplaces: Chinese commodities, European fairs, Vietnamese entrepreneurs

Author(s): MARINA MAROUDA
Published in: Global Networks, 2019, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12273

Commodities, merchants, and refugees: inter‐Asian circulations and Afghan mobility

Author(s): MAGNUS MARSDEN
Published in: Global Networks, 2020, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12272

Manly Merchants

Author(s): Magnus Marsden
Published in: Anthropology of the Middle East, 14/2, 2019, Page(s) 55-76, ISSN 1746-0719
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
DOI: 10.3167/ame.2019.140205

West-Central Asia: A comparative analysis of students’ trajectories in Russia (Moscow) from the 1980s and China (Yiwu) from the 2000s

Author(s): Diana Ibañez Tirado
Published in: Journal of Eurasian Studies, 10/1, 2019, Page(s) 48-60, ISSN 1879-3665
Publisher: Hanyang University
DOI: 10.1177/1879366518814664

Not a Silk Road: trading networks between China and the Middle East as a dynamic interaction of competing Eurasian geographies

Author(s): PAUL ANDERSON
Published in: Global Networks, 2020, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12271

Transnational marriages in Yiwu, China: tensions over money

Author(s): HEILA SHA
Published in: Global Networks, 2019, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12268

Trade ‘outside the law’: Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu and South-Central Asia

Author(s): Diana Ibañez-Tirado, Magnus Marsden
Published in: Central Asian Survey, 39/1, 2020, Page(s) 135-154, ISSN 0263-4937
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2020.1716687

Introduction to the special issue: after trust

Author(s): MAGNUS MARSDEN, PAUL ANDERSON
Published in: Global Networks, 2020, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12270

New trade formations: precarity, pragmatic cosmopolitanism and long‐distance trade in the Caucasus

Author(s): VERA SKVIRSKAJA
Published in: Global Networks, 2019, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12267

Transnational marriage in Yiwu, China: trade, settlement and mobility

Author(s): Heila Sha (Saheira Haliel)
Published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 1369-183X
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2019.1675500

Book chapters (1)

Afghanistan's Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A view from Yiwu, China

Author(s): Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibanez Tirado
Published in: Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Monility and Displacement in Islamic Asia, 2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press