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

"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 Korea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Song, Nianshen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Cambridge EBA Collection
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.