Making borders in modern East Asia : Tumen River demarcation, 1881-1919 / Nianshen Song.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

DS740.5.K6 S67 2018

9781107173958 hardcover alkaline paper
1107173957 hardcover alkaline paper

xix, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

(OCoLC)1012775468

"Making Borders in Modern East Asia 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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