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

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 -- Bound...

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1. Verfasser: Song, Nianshen ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung: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
"Making Borders in Modern East Asia 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:xix, 303 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:1107173957
9781107173958

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