Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands / / ed. by Steven Denney, Christopher Green, Adam Cathcart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Abrahamian, Andray,; Armytage, Rosita,; Bell, Markus,; Boydston, Kent,; Boyle, Edward,; Bregman, Sarah,; Cathcart, Adam,; Choi, Hee,; Clément, Théo,; Denney, Steven,; Gray, Kevin,; Green, Christopher,; Hamisevicz, Nicholas,; Harris, Tina,; Hoare, James (Jim) E.,; Jo Shin, Dong,; Leake, Elisabeth,; Morris, Warwick,; Pulford, Ed,; Schendel, Willem,; Wang, Yuanchong,; Ward, Peter,; Yeo, Andrew,
• HerausgeberIn: Cathcart, Adam,; Denney, Steven,; Green, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Borderlands ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)

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. Drawing on existing studies and new data, this volume 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, the volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quest 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.

Table of Contents

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