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Decoding the Sino-North Korean borderlands /

In the past decade, 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cathcart, Adam (Editor ), Green, Christopher (Christopher K.) (Editor ), Denney, Steven (Editor ), Van Schendel, Willem, Harris, Tina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Colección:Asian borderlands.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region
  • 1 Illuminating Edges
  • 2 On Asian Borders
  • 3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space
  • Part II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies
  • 4 Unification in Action?
  • 5 Ethnography and Borderlands
  • 6 Measuring North Korea's Economic Relationships
  • 7 Ink and Ashes
  • Part III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region
  • 8 Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate
  • 9 'Utopian Speak'
  • 10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990
  • Part IV Contemporary Borderland Economics
  • 11 Change on the Edges
  • 12 Tumen Triangle Tribulations
  • 13 Purges and Peripheries
  • 14 From Periphery to Centre
  • Part V Human Rights and Identity in the Borderland and Beyond
  • 15 Land of Promise or Peril?
  • 16 Celebrity Defectors
  • 17 North Korean Border-Crossers
  • 18 The Limits of Koreanness
  • Afterword
  • Index.