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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney
- Part I: Geography and Borderlands Theory:
Framing the Region
- 1. Illuminating Edges
- Borders as Institutions, Process, Space
- 2. On Asian Borders
- The Value of Comparative Studies
- 3. Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space
- From Dandong to the Tumen and Beyond
- Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney
- Part 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
- 7. Ink and Ashes
- Documenting North Korea’s Mythic Origins in the Border Regions, 1931-1953
- Part III: Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region
- 8. Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate
- Fenghuang Gate and the Emergence of the Modern Sino-Korean Borderline, 1636-1876
- 9. ‘Utopian Speak’
- Language Assimilation in China’s Yanbian Korean Borderland, 1958-1976
- 10. The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990
- A Journey to the Border in a Time of Flux
- Warwick Morris and James (Jim) E. Hoare
- Part IV: Contemporary Borderland Economics
- 11. Change on the Edges
- The Rajin-Sonbong Economic and Trade Zone
- 12. Tumen Triangle Tribulations
- The Unfulfilled Promise of Chinese, Russian, and North Korean Cooperation
- 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
- Part V: Human Rights and Identity in the
Borderland and Beyond
- 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
- 17. North Korean Border-Crossers
- The Legal Status of North Korean Defectors in China
- 18. The Limits of Koreanness
- Korean Encounters in Russo-Chinese Yanbian
- Afterword
- Index
- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
- Figures
- Figure 4.1 North Korean defector-migrant resettlement in South Korea by year
- Figure 4.2 Ethnocultural score for the combined North-South Korean sample by country of origin (n = 486; DPRK = ‘treatment’)
- Figure 5.1 Niigata harbour; repatriation towards North Korea of Koreans living in Japan
- Figure 9.1 From bilingual to monolingual: the campus newspaper of Yanbian University, 1953-1980
- Figure 10.1 Korean Air hoarding, Beijing Airport Road Spring 1990; no flights as yet, but getting ready
- Figure 10.2 Standard housing in the countryside
- Figure 10.3 Businessman off to work through the back streets of Yanji; note shop and restaurant signs in Chinese and Korean
- Figure 10.4 Dancing on the banks of the Tumen River, Tumen Town
- Figure 10.5 The thriving market in Yanji city
- Figure 10.6 Overseen by his mother and a stuffed panda, a small boy prepares for military service on the banks of the Tumen River
- Figure 18.1 Quad-lingual, quad-script sign on Hunchun China Mobile outlet
- Figure 18.2 Storefronts in Hunchun
- Figure 18.3 Russian cake shop
- Figures 18.4 and 18.5 Russian- and (Joseonjok) Korean-language books entitled ‘Who are we?’ Note both covers’ mobilisation of canonical symbols of reified ‘culture’, notably architecture and cuisine
- Maps
- Map 8.1 The Willow Palisade on the Complete Map of Shengjing (Shengjing yudi quantu)
- Map 8.2 Fenghuang City, the Fence Gate, and the Yalu River on the Complete Map of Shengjing
- Tables
- Table 4.1 Regression results
- Table 14.1 Terms used to refer to markets and how they operated over time (1945-2002)
- Table 14.2 North Korea’s major urban markets circa the late 1990s
- Table 14.3 The legality of the acquisition and sale of different products and assets in North Korean markets
- Table 15.1 Number of North Korean defectors entering South Korea, 2006-2016
- Table 17.2 Estimated populations of defectors and their children in China’s three Northeastern Provinces (Dongbei)
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