Download or read book China Korea Boundary written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ginseng and Borderland written by Seonmin Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries and political relations between Qing China and Choson Korea during the period from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. By examining a unique body of materials written in Chinese, Manchu, and Korean, and building on recent studies in New Qing History, Seonmin Kim adds new perspectives to current understandings of the remarkable transformation of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1636–1912) from a tribal state to a universal empire. This book discusses early Manchu history and explores the Qing Empire’s policy of controlling Manchuria and Choson Korea. Kim also contributes to theKorean history of the Choson dynasty (1392–1910) by challenging conventional accounts that embrace a China-centered interpretation of the tributary relationship between the two polities, stressing instead the agency of Choson Korea in the formation of the Qing Empire. This study demonstrates how Koreans interpreted and employed this relationship in order to preserve the boundary—and peace—with the suzerain power. By focusing on the historical significance of the China-Korea boundary, this book defines the nature of the Qing Empire through the dynamics of contacts and conflicts under both the cultural and material frameworks of its tributary relationship with Choson Korea.
Download or read book The Border crossing North Koreans written by Keumsoon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Korea Boundary written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Korea Boundary June 29 1962 written by United States. Department of State. Office of the Geographer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Borderlands of China and Korea written by Yong-ku Cha and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume utilizes the concept of contact zones to reconceptualize the time and space around East Asian borders as meeting zones where multiple races, nations, and cultures interacted through the processes of exchange, coexistence, and acculturation. Focusing especially on the borderlands of China and Korea, the contributors document the shifts and repositioning of the contact zones of East Asia as well as the encounters and conflicts that transpired in these spaces, with historical materials spanning the period from the first to the early twentieth centuries and geographical regions from the Tibetan Plateau to Manchuria to the Korean Peninsula. What emerges is a rich account of how the historical changes in the contact zones significantly shaped the history of East Asia as a whole.
Download or read book China and North Korea written by Andrew Scobell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life on the Border written by Gowoon Noh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on how the Korean-Chinese population of Yanbian Korean-Chinese Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture (Yanbian) conducts transnational business and engages in labor migration between South Korea and the Yanbian Prefecture, China. Korean-Chinese are the descendants of migrants from the Korean peninsula who left to China between the mid-19th century and the end of the Second World War. After forty years of severance, Korean-Chinese were reconnected to South Korea ever more closely through transnational interactions, such as labor migration, transnational business corporations, scholarly exchange, and popular media distribution. This study seeks to understand the context in which the "official" national ideology of cultural homogeneity among the members of the Korean nation is suggested to be a major element in guaranteeing economic progress, while much of the Korean-Chinese public insists on limiting the interactions between the two countries to within the sphere of economic relations only and not facilitating cultural relations. This study looks at how Korean-Chinese are situated in a unique context of national belonging between China and South Korea as an ethnic minority of the postsocialist Chinese state and the largest Korean overseas population believed to share national ancestry and culture with capitalist South Korea. Rather than enhancing national sentiment with their mother country, South Korea, which provides more economic opportunities through the global flows of media, information, consumer products, capital, and labor, my study shows that Korean-Chinese build stronger attachments and patriotism to the Chinese state. As a way of resisting social inequality set by economic relations between Korean-Chinese and South Koreans in global capitalist markets, Korean-Chinese have constructed a sense of moral superiority to South Koreans. By demoralizing South Korean society as corrupted by devil spirits of capitalism, while also moralizing the Chinese postsocialist transformation as a remedy for the socialist past of poverty, Korean-Chinese seek to secure a legitimate and firm standing as a part of China's geopolitical and global economic power. My study shows that the contradictory positions toward capitalism are the local means by which Korean-Chinese negotiate their economic exploitation and political marginalization in the process of globalization between the two states. In discussing the meanings of nation and state in globalization, this study looks at the newly emerging notion of neoliberal citizenship in the context of China's postsocialist transformations. My study explores how Korean-Chinese exercise transnational mobility between China and South Korea in the process of postsocialist transformations, and how their transnational strategies are practices encouraged by China's neoliberal discourse of the private self. My study, however, aims to further elaborate the analysis of neoliberalism to the extent that the emphasis on neoliberal ethics of self-governance and self-responsibility in postsocialist China often engender political and economic insecurity for the ethnic population by challenging their national belonging and identity between the two states. I examine how Korean-Chinese, a marginalized ethnic minority of Northeast China, pursue social and political power by embracing as well as critiquing global capitalist processes and neoliberal ethics. This study also adds to the theoretical inquiry of the question of globalization by focusing on the question of gender. Although both Korean-Chinese men and women equally participate in the border crossing between China and South Korea, women's pursuits for economic gain through transnational practices tends to be more severely criticized by Korean-Chinese intellectuals and the general public, and women themselves as well, as a condition of immorality. Some feminist scholars examine how, as bearers and caretakers of a nation's following generations, women's activities in crossing a nation's boundaries bring out more controversial debates than men's. The Korean-Chinese interlocutors with whom I conducted fieldwork are mostly middle-aged women who experienced the Chinese Cultural Revolution in their teens and the postsocialist economic reform policies after they graduated high school. At present, they are considered to be better at adapting to the postsocialist transformations than their male counterparts. However, the morality question for women pursuing wealth oscillates between praise for their economic qualities as self-maximizing subjects, what China's neoliberal politics encourage, and discrimination of their sense of morals as money-driven greed influenced by South Korean capitalism. The official and public discourses about the Korean-Chinese women show how the process of postsocialist changes contains gendered connotations and evaluations.
Download or read book Decoding the Sino North Korean Borderlands written by Christopher Green and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, 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, Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands 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, this volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quests 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.
Download or read book Looking Into North Korea from China written by John Goodman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mostly contains pictures taken in 2011, 2013 and 2014 with telephoto lenses across the border of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from vantage points in China. The frustration of not knowing what is happening in the DPRK is exacerbated by the regime's recent nuclear tests and experiments with intercontinental ballistic missiles. Then there are the economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations and the United States. Everyone wants to know whether the sanctions are likely to cause the DPRK leadership to denuclearize and abandon missile tests. These pictures can be viewed and analysed for signs that could tell whether economic sanctions are or are not working. Some clues about the extent of economic decline can be obtained from pictures taken across the Yalu River which forms the border in Dandong. Then further up the river pictures of a housing estate give us further clues. Watch towers along the border indicate repression of a population eager to escape. Then the book contains maps showing the extremely small distances separating some North Korean islands in the Yalu River from China. The possibility that thousands of escapees are already living in China and that more will soon follow is analyzed. Twenty five kilometres further upstream the Ming Dynasty Great Wall, which reaches a height of 163 metres, allows the curious visitor to look down on a North Korean collective farm and see farm workers toiling in the fields. A walk along the side of a cliff face at Tiger Mountain gives the photographer views across a narrow channel of the Yalu River. There Korean soldiers can be seen marching through the fields where exhausted farm workers are tilling the soil. Farm animals pull carts for farmers next to the border fence which has collapsed in places. We also see a farming village with houses and farm buildings. Although these scenes can be interpreted in different ways, they give a much better understanding of North Korea than the rhetoric coming out of the White House. Then there are pictures of Mount Paektu, known as Changbai Shan in Chinese, which holds a volcanic lake divided almost equally between Korea and China. This is the sacred mountain which North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un claims to have climbed and pictures in the book will suggest the truth or otherwise of this claim. Further to the north we come to the Tumen River border. It is here that Russia imposed the unequal treaties on China in 1860 resulting in loss of China's access to the Sea of Japan and the loss of ten percent of China's territory. Consequently China now has to export the produce from Jilin Province through the Korean Port of Rason. Chinese and Russian investments in Rason are examined to determine whether they will be affected by sanctions. Pictures of the Tumen River are accompanied by an analysis of political and economic factors in assessing the potential for large numbers of refugees to flee into China. The book also contains pictures of warning signs threatening severe punishment of border crossers and signs pleading with tourists to avoid cross border communications. The author, who has lived in China for eight years, hopes that in looking through more than 80 pages of colour photographs and maps the reader will get additional information and clues about what to expect in America's dealings with North Korea.
Download or read book Making Borders in Modern East Asia written by Nianshen Song and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Within Limits written by Wayne Thompson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.
Download or read book Past Progress written by Ed Pulford and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese empire which banished Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynastic histories from the region, through Chinese, Soviet, and Korean socialisms, these borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale. Taking an archaeological approach to notions of historical progress, the book's three parts follow an innovative structure moving backwards through linear time. Part I explores "post-historical" Hunchun's diverse sociopolitics since high socialism's demise. Part II covers the socialist era, discussing cross-border temporal synchrony between China, Russia, and North Korea. Finally, Part III treats the period preceding socialist revolutions, revealing how the collapse of Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynasties marked a compound "end of history" which opened the area to projections of modernity and progress. Examining a borderland across linguistic, cultural, and historical lenses, Past Progress is a simultaneously local and transregional analysis of time, borders, and the state before, during, and since socialism.
Download or read book Escaping North Korea written by Mike Kim and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories of those who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their homeland and make new lives. One of the few Americans granted entry into the secretive "Hermit Kingdom," Kim came to know theisolated country and its people intimately. His North Korean friends entrusted their secrets to him as they revealed the government's brainwashing tactics and confessed their true thoughts about the repressive regime that so rigidly controls their lives.Civilians and soldiers alike spoke of what North Koreans think of Americans and war with America. Children remembered the suffering they endured through the famine. Women and girls recalled their horrific experiences at the hands of sex-traffickers. Former political prisoners shared their memories of beatings, torture, and executions in the gulags. With the permission of these courageous individuals, Kim now shares their stories and recounts his dramatic experiences leading North Koreans to asylum through the six-thousand-mile modern-day underground railway through Asia. His unflinching narrative exposes the truth about North Korea, stripping away the last veils that still shroud this brutal dictatorship.
Download or read book Korean War Armistice Agreement written by United Nations and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Korean War Armistice Agreement" contains an agreement that brought a stop to the hostility and disagreement of the Korean War. This is an armistice signed on 27 July, 1953 and designed to ensure a complete cessation of hostilities, and all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved.
Download or read book The Girl with Seven Names A North Korean Defector s Story written by Hyeonseo Lee and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.
Download or read book Mao s Military Romanticism written by Shu Guang Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breaks new ground in analyzing China's decision to enter the war and its subsequent struggle to hold its own against the world's most powerful nation. Should stand for some time as the standard comprehensive treatment of China in the Korean War". -- William Stueck, author of The Korean War. "Offers provocative insights into Mao's thinking about strategy, tactics, and the human costs of warfare. Highly recommended". -- John Lewis Gaddis, author of The Long Peace.
