Introduction : informal exchanges and contending connectivity along the shadow silk roads / Tak-Wing Ngo and Eva P.W. Hung Fragmented sovereignty and unregulated flows : the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar corridor / Willem van Schendel In and out of the shadows : Pakistan-China trade across the Karakoram Mountains / Hasan H. Karrar Circulations in shadow corridors : connectivity in the Northern Bay of Bengal / Samuel Berthet Past and present : shadows of the China-Ladakh-Pakistan routes / Vaijayanti Khare Formal versus informal practices : trade of medicinal and aromatic plants via Trans-Himalayan Silk Road / Arjun Chapagain Formal versus informal Chinese presence : the underbelly of hope in the Western Balkans / Jelena Gledić State approaches to non-state interactions : cross-border f lows in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan / Olga Y. Adams Integration in post-Soviet Central Asia : shadow-economy practices and the cross-Eurasian flow of commodities / Ivan Zuenko In the shadow of constructed borderlands : China’s One Belt One Road and European economic governance / Susann Handke High-end globalization and low-end globalization : African traders across Afro-Asia / Gordon Mathews | 
