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 borde...

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1. Verfasser:	Song, Nianshen ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schlagworte:	China / Boundaries / Korea Korea / Boundaries / China China / Foreign relations / Korea Korea / Foreign relations / China China / Foreign relations / Japan Japan / Foreign relations / China Tumen River / History
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018) 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
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xix, 303 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781316795491
DOI:	10.1017/9781316795491