E Pulford
Biographic Data
| ID | 37485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Pulford |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Pulford |
| SIGNATURE | PULFORD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7949-9331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries
This article focuses on responses to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine among establishment intellectuals in the People’s Republic of China, exploring how shifting geographies of power are reshaping ideas around ethnoracial identity in Eurasia. President Vladimir Putin justified the war, arguing that Ukrainians had no legitimate existence separate from Russians. In China where, despite long-standing opposition to countries “interfering in internal…
Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea
While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse her…
Introduction: Progresses Past and Present
Ukraine and the Limits of China-Russia Friendship
China’s tacit support for Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine raises questions about the extent of the two countries’ official “Friendship.” Studying the history of this tie, including during past crises comparable to the current war in Ukraine, shows that Friendship has its limits, even as the current global moment encourages Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to tout their bond
Caught Between Spectacles: Migrant "Clean-ups," Gendered Performance, and the State in a China-Russia Border Town
On a background of increasingly draconian state policies targeting trans-national migrants across the world, anthropologists and other scholars have documented the insidiously discriminatory operation of controls over movement of people. Often focused on Europe and the United States, this work has revealed how migrant crackdowns amount to “spectacles of illegality” (per De Genova 2013) in which processes of illegalization and racialization procee…
On Frontiers and Fronts: Bandits, Partisans, and Manchuria’s Borders, 1900–1949
The region sometimes known as Manchuria entered 1900 as a frontier of blurred boundaries. Inter-polity borders between the Qing and Russian empires, and between both empires and Korea, had been drawn in earlier centuries, but no power center exerted full control. Multiple populations—Manchu, Korean, Han Chinese, Russian, and also Japanese for a time—lived among one another. This changed by mid-century as borders hardened under new rationalist-Wes…
Material States: China, Russia, and the incorporation of a cross-border indigenous people
The once-unified indigenous northeast Asian people known as the Hezhe in China and the Nanai in Russia are little-discussed in any discipline, but their long experiences of cross-border division and, more recently, renewed inter-community contact, offer us a new framework for understanding both Chinese and Russian states in the region. As I show here ethnographically, today's Hezhe in northern Heilongjiang province (China) and Nanai in Khabarovsk…
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales
Relations between states are usually framed in human terms, from partners to rivals, enemies or allies, polities and persons appear to engage in cognate relationships. Yet whether or not official ties and relationships among people from those states actually correspond remains less clear. 'Friendship,' a term first applied to states in eighteenth-century Europe and mobilized in the (post)socialist world since the 1930s, articulates with particula…
Wind from an empty cave? Online rumor and ideology in postsocialist China and Russia
If the online spread of incendiary information has recently been hotly debated in the West, then related phenomena have been longer-standing concerns in China and Russia. Since 2009, explosions in social media use in both countries have seen internet “rumors” proliferate, alongside governmental efforts to curb them. The postsocialist environment is pivotal to these rumors’ spread, as shown by their fixation on symbols of the postsocialist era – p…
At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity, written by Paul B. Richardson
The Nanai, Hezhe and mobilized loyalties along the Amur
As communities of the once broadly unified indigenous Nanai/Hezhe people were incorporated into separate Russian/Soviet and Chinese states during the twentieth century, official portrayals of their 'loyalty' became a powerful index of their separation. Authorities in both countries cast the Nanai (Russia) and Hezhe (China) both as inherently loyal, 'noble' but naïve beneficiaries of state-promoted civilisational uplift, and as specifically loyal …
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales
Relations between states are usually framed in human terms, from partners to rivals, enemies or allies, polities and persons appear to engage in cognate relationships. Yet whether or not official ties and relationships among people from those states actually correspond remains less clear. 'Friendship,' a term first applied to states in eighteenth-century Europe and mobilized in the (post)socialist world since the 1930s, articulates with particula…
The Nanai, Hezhe and mobilized loyalties along the Amur
As communities of the once broadly unified indigenous Nanai/Hezhe people were incorporated into separate Russian/Soviet and Chinese states during the twentieth century, official portrayals of their 'loyalty' became a powerful index of their separation. Authorities in both countries cast the Nanai (Russia) and Hezhe (China) both as inherently loyal, 'noble' but naïve beneficiaries of state-promoted civilisational uplift, and as specifically loyal …
On Frontiers and Fronts: Bandits, Partisans, and Manchuria’s Borders, 1900–1949
The region sometimes known as Manchuria entered 1900 as a frontier of blurred boundaries. Inter-polity borders between the Qing and Russian empires, and between both empires and Korea, had been drawn in earlier centuries, but no power center exerted full control. Multiple populations—Manchu, Korean, Han Chinese, Russian, and also Japanese for a time—lived among one another. This changed by mid-century as borders hardened under new rationalist-Wes…
Material States: China, Russia, and the incorporation of a cross-border indigenous people
The once-unified indigenous northeast Asian people known as the Hezhe in China and the Nanai in Russia are little-discussed in any discipline, but their long experiences of cross-border division and, more recently, renewed inter-community contact, offer us a new framework for understanding both Chinese and Russian states in the region. As I show here ethnographically, today's Hezhe in northern Heilongjiang province (China) and Nanai in Khabarovsk…
The Nanai, Hezhe and mobilized loyalties along the Amur
As communities of the once broadly unified indigenous Nanai/Hezhe people were incorporated into separate Russian/Soviet and Chinese states during the twentieth century, official portrayals of their 'loyalty' became a powerful index of their separation. Authorities in both countries cast the Nanai (Russia) and Hezhe (China) both as inherently loyal, 'noble' but naïve beneficiaries of state-promoted civilisational uplift, and as specifically loyal …
Wind from an empty cave? Online rumor and ideology in postsocialist China and Russia
If the online spread of incendiary information has recently been hotly debated in the West, then related phenomena have been longer-standing concerns in China and Russia. Since 2009, explosions in social media use in both countries have seen internet “rumors” proliferate, alongside governmental efforts to curb them. The postsocialist environment is pivotal to these rumors’ spread, as shown by their fixation on symbols of the postsocialist era – p…
At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity, written by Paul B. Richardson
On Frontiers and Fronts: Bandits, Partisans, and Manchuria’s Borders, 1900–1949
The region sometimes known as Manchuria entered 1900 as a frontier of blurred boundaries. Inter-polity borders between the Qing and Russian empires, and between both empires and Korea, had been drawn in earlier centuries, but no power center exerted full control. Multiple populations—Manchu, Korean, Han Chinese, Russian, and also Japanese for a time—lived among one another. This changed by mid-century as borders hardened under new rationalist-Wes…
Material States: China, Russia, and the incorporation of a cross-border indigenous people
The once-unified indigenous northeast Asian people known as the Hezhe in China and the Nanai in Russia are little-discussed in any discipline, but their long experiences of cross-border division and, more recently, renewed inter-community contact, offer us a new framework for understanding both Chinese and Russian states in the region. As I show here ethnographically, today's Hezhe in northern Heilongjiang province (China) and Nanai in Khabarovsk…
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales
Relations between states are usually framed in human terms, from partners to rivals, enemies or allies, polities and persons appear to engage in cognate relationships. Yet whether or not official ties and relationships among people from those states actually correspond remains less clear. 'Friendship,' a term first applied to states in eighteenth-century Europe and mobilized in the (post)socialist world since the 1930s, articulates with particula…
Ukraine and the Limits of China-Russia Friendship
China’s tacit support for Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine raises questions about the extent of the two countries’ official “Friendship.” Studying the history of this tie, including during past crises comparable to the current war in Ukraine, shows that Friendship has its limits, even as the current global moment encourages Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to tout their bond
Caught Between Spectacles: Migrant "Clean-ups," Gendered Performance, and the State in a China-Russia Border Town
On a background of increasingly draconian state policies targeting trans-national migrants across the world, anthropologists and other scholars have documented the insidiously discriminatory operation of controls over movement of people. Often focused on Europe and the United States, this work has revealed how migrant crackdowns amount to “spectacles of illegality” (per De Genova 2013) in which processes of illegalization and racialization procee…
Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea
While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse her…
Introduction: Progresses Past and Present
War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries
This article focuses on responses to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine among establishment intellectuals in the People’s Republic of China, exploring how shifting geographies of power are reshaping ideas around ethnoracial identity in Eurasia. President Vladimir Putin justified the war, arguing that Ukrainians had no legitimate existence separate from Russians. In China where, despite long-standing opposition to countries “interfering in internal…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · China (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)