Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.|Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

• Introduction, Trusting and Mistrusting Across Borders Caroline Humphrey, Déjà vu of Distrust in the Sino-Russian Borderlands Sayana Namsaraeva, Economies of Trust Informality and the State in the Russian-Chinese borderland Tobias Holzlehner, Can Kinship Come to the Rescue? Trust and Cooperation across the Border between China and Mongolia Nasan Bayar, Betrayed by Trust Inter-Korean Relations across Northeast Asian Borders Hyun-Gwi, Park The Trade Town of Manzhouli Trust Created and Undermined Ivan Peshkov, Différances of Doverie (Mis)trust and the Old Faith in the Russian Far East Dominic Martin Trust, Chance and Disappointment Real Estate Business in Russia’s Far East Caroline Humphrey, Searching for Trust Indigenous People in the Jade Business Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha, and Pavel Sulyandziga, The Emergence of Cross-Border Electronic Commerce Creativity and Declining Trust Natalia Ryzhova, Index.