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Summary:

In the past decade, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. Drawing on existing studies and new data, this volume brings much of this literature into concert by pulling together a wide range of insight on the region's economics, security, social cohesion, and information flows. Drawing from multilingual sources and transnational scholarship, the volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quest to decode the borderland. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the link between theory, methodology, and practice in the field of Area Studies and social science more broadly.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region
• 1. Illuminating Edges
• Borders as Institutions, Process, Space / Edward Boyle
• 2. On Asian Borders
• Value of Comparative Studies / Elisabeth Leake
• 3. Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space
• From Dandong to the Tumen and Beyond / Steven Denney
• pt. II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies
• 4. Unification in Action?
• National Identity of North Korean Defector-Migrants: Insights and Implications / Christopher Green
• 5. Ethnography and Borderlands
• Socio-political Dimensions of North Korean Migration / Rosita Armytage
• 6. Measuring North Korea's Economic Relationships
• Evidence from the Borderlands / Kent Boydston
• 7. Ink and Ashes
• Documenting North Korea's Mythic Origins in the Border Regions, 1931-1953 / Adam Cathcart
• pt. III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region
• 8. Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate
• Fenghuang Gate and the Emergence of the Modern Sino-Korean Borderline, 1636-1876 / Yuanchong Wang
• 9. Ùtopian Speak'

• Language Assimilation in China's Yanbian Korean Borderland, 1958-1976 / Dong Jo Shin
• 10. Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990
• Journey to the Border in a Time of Flux / James (Jim) E. Hoare
• pt. IV Contemporary Borderland Economics
• 11. Change on the Edges
• Rajin-Sonbong Economic and Trade Zone / Theo Clement
• 12. Tumen Triangle Tribulations
• Unfulfilled Promise of Chinese, Russian, and North Korean Cooperation / Andray Abrahamian
• 13. Purges and Peripheries
• Jang Song-taek, Pyongyang's SEZ Strategy, and Relations with China / Christopher Green
• 14. From Periphery to Centre
• History of North Korean Marketization / Christopher Green
• pt. V Human Rights and Identity in the Borderland and Beyond
• 15. Land of Promise or Peril?
• Sino-North Korea Border Space and Human Rights / Andrew Yeo
• 16. Celebrity Defectors
• Representations of North Korea in Euro-American and South Korean Intimate Publics / Sarah Bregman
• 17. North Korean Border-Crossers
• Legal Status of North Korean Defectors in China / Hee Choi
• 18. Limits of Koreanness
• Korean Encounters in Russo-Chinese Yanbian / Ed Pulford.

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Contributors:

Cathcart, Adam , author, editor

Green, Christopher , author, editor

Denney, Steven , author, editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Asian borderlands (Amsterdam University Press)

Subjects:

Borderlands — China

Borderlands — Korea (North)

China — Foreign relations — Korea (North)

Korea (North) — Foreign relations — China

China — Economic policy — 2000-

China — Politics and government — 2000-

Chinese autonomous regions

Korea (North) — Economic conditions — 2011-

Korea (North) — Politics and government — 2011-

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS33.4.C5 D43 2021eb

ISBNs:

9789048539260 (electronic bk.)
9048539269 (electronic bk.)
9462987564 [Invalid]
9789462987562 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 10.5117/9789462987562

OCLC Numbers:

1236266159

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6467762 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16879143