Aspirational laws: performative governance in Mongolia's fang feng (Saposhnikovia divaricata) trade for the TCM market

Since Mongolia's transition from socialism in 1991, wild medicinal plants have been harvested from public lands and exported to diverse Asian medicinal markets. This article examines how the post-socialist, market-democratic state has struggled both to regulate the illegal outflow of wild flora...

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Published in:Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Main Author: Hedwig Amelia Waters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2025.1541858/full