Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands

Adam Cathcart is a lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds and the editor of the European Journal of Korean Studies. Christopher Green is a lecturer in Korean Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Steven Denney is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

• Acknowledgements, Introduction (Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney), I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region, 1 Illuminating Edges: Borders as Institutions, Process, Space (Edward Boyle), 2 On Asian Borderlands: The Value of Comparative Studies (Elisabeth Leake), 3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space: From Dandong to the Tumen and Beyond (Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney), II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies, 4 Unification in Action? The National Identity of North Korean Defector-Migrants: Insights and Implications (Steven Denney and Christopher Green), 5 Ethnography and Borderlands: The Socio-political Dimensions of North Korean Migration (Markus Bell and Rosita Armytage), 6 Measuring North Korea's Economic Relationships: Evidence from the Borderlands (Kent Boydston), 7 Ink and Ashes: Documents, Destruction, and North Korea's Mythic Origins in the Border Region, 1931-1945 (Adam Cathcart), III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region, 8 Revisiting the Forgotten Frontier: Fenghuang Gate, Qing-Chos?n Contacts, and the Rise of Modern Chinese State, 1636-1876 (Yuanchong Wang), 9 'Utopian Speak': Language Assimilation in China's Yanbian Korean Borderland, 1958-1976 (Dong Jo Shin), 10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in 1990: A Journey to the Border in a Time of Flux (Warwick Morris and James Hoare), IV Contemporary Borderland Politics and Economics, 11 Change on the Edges: The Rajin-Sonbong Economic and Trade Zone (Théo Clément), 12 Tumen Triangle Tribulations: The Unfulfilled Promise of Chinese, Russian, and North Korean Cooperation (Andray Abrahamian), 13 Purges and Peripheries: Jang Song-taek, Pyongyang's SEZ Strategy, and Relations with China (Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green), 14 From Periphery to Centre: A History of North Korean Marketization (Peter Ward and Christopher Green), V Human Rights and Identity, 15 Land of Promise or Peril? The Sino-North Korea Border Space and Human Rights (Nicholas Hamisevicz and Andrew Yeo), 16 Celebrity Defectors: Representations of North Korea in Euro-American and South Korean Intimate Publics (Sarah Bregman), 17 North Korean Border-Crossers : The Legal Status of North Korean Migrants in China (Hee Choi [translated by Robert Lauler]), 18 The Limits of Koreanness: Korean Encounters in Russo-Chinese Yanbian (Ed Pulford), VI Afterword (Kevin Gray), VII Index.