Decoding the Sino-North Korean borderlands / edited by Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cathcart, Adam, author, editor.

Green, Christopher, author, editor.

Denney, Steven, author, editor.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Asian borderlands (Amsterdam University Press)

Asian borderlands

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--China.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Korea (North).

International relations.

Korea (North).

China--Foreign relations--Korea (North).

China.

Korea (North)--Foreign relations--China.

China--Economic policy--2000-.

Economic policy.

China--Politics and government--2000-.

Politics and government.

Chinese autonomous regions.

Korea (North)--Economic conditions--2011-.

Economic conditions.

Korea (North)--Politics and government--2011-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : maps, illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney

Part I. Geography and borderlands theory : framing the region

1. Illuminating edges : borders as institutions, process, space / Edward Boyle

2. On Asian borders : the value of comparative studies / Elisabeth Leake

3. Regions within the Yalu-Tumen border space : from Dandong to Tumen and beyond / Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green and Steven Denney

Part II. Toward a methodology of Sino-Korean border studies

4. Unification in action? The national identity of North Korean defector-migrants : insights and implications / Steven Denney and Christopher Green

5. Ethnography and borderlands : the socio-political dimensions of North Korean migration / Markus Bell and 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

Part 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 / Yuanchang Wang

9. 'Utopian speak' : language assimilation in China's Yanbian Korean borderland, 1958-1976 / Dong Jo Shin

10. The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990 : a journey to the border in a time of flux / Warwick Morris and James (Jim) E. Hoare

Part IV. Contemporary borderland economics

11. Change on the edges : the Rajin-Sonbong Economic and Trade Zone / Théo Clément

12. Tumen Triangle tribulations : the 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 / Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green

14. From Periphery to Centre : A History of North Korean Marketization / Peter Ward and Christopher Green

Part V. Human Rights and Identity in the Borderland and Beyond

15. Land of Promise or Peril? The Sino-North Korea Border Space and Human Rights / Nicholas Hamisevicz and Andrew Yeo

16. Celebrity Defectors : Representations of North Korea in Euro-American and South Korean Intimate Publics / Sarah Bregman

17. North Korean Border-Crossers : The Legal Status of North Korean Defectors in China / Hee Choi ; Translated by Robert Lauler

18. The Limits of Koreanness : Korean Encounters in Russo-Chinese Yanbian / Ed Pulford

Afterword / Kevin Gray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789048539260

9048539269

Publisher Number:

99986647806

10.5117/9789462987562

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