Making Borders in Modern East Asia - The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881-1919

Song examines the transformation of East Asia through Tumen River border disputes in a period of disaster, turbulence, and war.

List of contents

List of figures and tables; Abbreviation of some sources, measures; Acknowledgements; A note on romanization; Introduction: a lost stele and a multivocal river; 1. Crossing the boundary: socioecology of the Tumen River region; 2. Dynastic geography: demarcation as rhetoric; 3. Making 'Kando': the mobility of a cross-border society; 4. Taming the frontier: statecraft and international law; 5. Boundary redefined: a multilayered competition; 6. People redefined: identity politics in Yanbian; Conclusion: our land, our people; Epilogue: Tumen River, the film; Selected bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nianshen Song is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Summary

In the late nineteenth century, Korean refugees crossed the Tumen river border into Manchuria, triggering a territorial dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. This major new study of this multiethnic frontier highlights competing nation-building projects in the fraught period that witnessed the Sino-Japanese, the Russo-Japanese, and the First World Wars.

Product details

• Authors: Nianshen Song, Nianshen (University of Maryland Song
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781316626290
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62629-0
• No. of pages: 323
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1500 onwards to present day, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, General and world history, History and Archaeology