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Making borders in modern East Asia : the Tumen River demarcation, 1881-1919 / Nianshen Song

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Song, Nianshen
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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1 online resource (xix, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents
Introduction : a lost stele and a multivocal river -- Crossing the boundary : socioecology of the Tumen River region -- Dynastic geography : demarcation as rhetoric -- Making 'kando' : the mobility of a cross-border society -- Taming the frontier : statecraft and international law -- Boundary redefined : a multilayered competition -- People redefined : identity politics in Yanbian -- Conclusion : our land, our people -- Epilogue : Tumen River, the film.
Summary
Until the late nineteenth century, the Chinese-Korean Tumen River border was one of the oldest, and perhaps most stable, state boundaries in the world. Spurred by severe food scarcity following a succession of natural disasters, from the 1860s, countless Korean refugees crossed the Tumen River border into Qing-China's Manchuria, triggering a decades-long territorial dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. This major new study of a multilateral and multiethnic frontier highlights the competing state- and nation-building projects in the fraught period that witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First World War. The power-plays over land and people simultaneously promoted China's frontier-building endeavours, motivated Korea's nationalist imagination, and stimulated Japan's colonialist enterprise, setting East Asia on an intricate trajectory from the late-imperial to a situation that, Song argues, we call modern.
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9781316795491 (ebook)
9781107173958 (hardback)
9781316626290 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018).
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