Guanxi and regulation in networks: the Yunnanese jade trade between Burma and Thailand, 1962-88. From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Chang, Wen-Chin | COPYRIGHT 2004 Cambridge University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This article analyses the Yunnanese jade-trade networks operating between Burma and Thailand from 1962-88, the period of the Burmese socialist regime. A period of isolation for Burmese society, it was also the time when Kuomintang (KMT or Nationalist) Yunnanese armies, an ethnic militia entrenched along the border with northern Thailand, played a significant role in the cross-border trade between the two countries. During this time Burma's dosed economic system and the development ...

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