Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17798-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. Drawing on existing studies and new data, Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands brings much of this literature into concert by pulling together a wide range of insight on the region's economics, security, social cohesion, and information flows. Drawing from multilingual sources and transnational scholarship, this volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quests to decode the borderland. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the link between theory, methodology, and practice in the field of Area Studies and social science more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cathcart, Adam

Green, Christopher

Denney, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction (Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney), I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region, 1 Illuminating Edges: Borders as Institutions, Process, Space (Edward Boyle), 2 On Asian Borderlands: The Value of Comparative Studies (Elisabeth Leake), 3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space: From Dandong to the Tumen and Beyond (Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney), II Towards 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: Documents, Destruction, and North Korea's Mythic Origins in the Border Region, 1931-1945 (Adam Cathcart), III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region, 8 Revisiting the Forgotten Frontier: Fenghuang Gate, Qing-Chos?n Contacts, and the Rise of Modern Chinese State, 1636-1876 (Yuanchong Wang), 9 'Utopian Speak': Language Assimilation in China's Yanbian Korean Borderland, 1958-1976 (Dong Jo Shin), 10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in 1990: A Journey to the Border in a Time of Flux (Warwick Morris and James Hoare), IV Contemporary Borderland Politics and 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), V Human Rights and Identity, 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 Migrants in China (Hee Choi [translated by Robert Lauler]), 18 The Limits of Koreanness: Korean Encounters in Russo-Chinese Yanbian (Ed Pulford), VI Afterword (Kevin Gray), VII Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Cathcart is a lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds and the editor of the European Journal of Korean Studies. Christopher Green is a lecturer in Korean Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Steven Denney is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.