Making Borders in Modern East Asia
The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19913798 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nianshen Song (0000-0002-5309-6953, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Making Borders in Modern East Asia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316795491 |
| OpenAlex | W3015185859 |
| Open Library | OL35816838M |
| ISBN | 9781316795491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
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 Korean refugees crossed the Tumen River border into Qing-China's Manchuria, triggering a decades-long territorial dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. This major new study of a multilateral and multiethnic frontier highlights the competing state- and nation-building projects in the fraught period that witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First World War. The power-plays over land and people simultaneously promoted China's frontier-building endeavours, motivated Korea's nationalist imagination, and stimulated Japan's colonialist enterprise, setting East Asia on an intricate trajectory from the late-imperial to a situation that, Song argues, we call modern
China · Development economics · East Asia · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Nationalism · Political science · Power (physics) · Refugee · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Boundaries · foreign relations · Japan · Korea
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Chinese Settler-Colonialism and the Borderless National Imagination in Lü Sheng’s A Madman’s Dream
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The Profits of Nature
Compiling Diplomacy
We Go on Our Own Boats!”
My Love from the Mountain
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873-1876
The cheese, the worm, and the law
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |