Making Borders in Modern East Asia: Tumen River Demarcation, 1881-1919
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- Synopsis
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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.
Examines the making of modern China, Korea, and Japan through trans-regional, local, and competitive perspectives.
Rethinks the meaning territorial, ethnic, racial, and national boundaries.
Provides a historical perspective on international relations in twentieth-century East Asia.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316800447
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781107173958, 9781107173958
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/16/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Nianshen Song
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.