Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 11
4. Introduction 13
5. Part I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region
6. 1 Illuminating Edges 25
7. 2 On Asian Borders 45
8. 3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space 59
9. Part II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies
10. 4 Unification in Action? 81
11. 5 Ethnography and Borderlands 101
12. 6 Measuring North Korea’s Economic Relationships 119
13. 7 Ink and Ashes 131
14. Part III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region
15. 8 Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate 167
16. 9 ‘Utopian Speak’ 191
17. 10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990 217
18. Part IV Contemporary Borderland Economics
19. 11 Change on the Edges 237
20. 12 Tumen Triangle Tribulations 269
21. 13 Purges and Peripheries 289
22. 14 From Periphery to Centre 313
23. Part V Human Rights and Identity in the Borderland and Beyond
24. 15 Land of Promise or Peril? 335
25. 16 Celebrity Defectors 353
26. 17 North Korean Border-Crossers 375
27. 18 The Limits of Koreanness 401
28. Afterword 431
29. Index 437