Steps in the Tumen River

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dc.contributor.authorSong, Nianshen
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-06T15:51:30Z
dc.date.available2020-02-06T15:51:30Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-10
dc.description.abstractThis article records my field experiences with the Tumen River, which forms the boundary between China and Korea. Based on my field notes at three different locations—the river mouth, where territories belonging to China, North Korea, and Russia adjoin; a small town midway along the river where pioneer Korean immigrants risked their lives to cross the border; and the “source” of the contemporary border in a dense mountain forest—my narrative links historical memories of the Tumen border from the seventeenth century to the present. The trips, which were taken over the course of thirteen years, urged me to inquire about and rethink the meaning of state borders from the perspective of local residents, trespassers, and the environment. The article questions the popular notion that boundaries are naturally formed, static, and always clearly defined. On the contrary, they are arbitrarily made, fluid, and often ambiguous. As my physical and intellectual journey along this river revealed the humanistic aspect of boundaries, I myself completed a transformation from journalist to historian.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/124/5/1749/5672917?guestAccessKey=44ae1ff7-543a-4b3c-93f6-080fc0a90b76en_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2jyr9-i4ov
dc.identifier.citationSong, Nianshen; Steps in the Tumen River; The American Historical Review, Volume 124, Issue 5, Pages 1749–1757 (2019); https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/124/5/1749/5672917?guestAccessKey=44ae1ff7-543a-4b3c-93f6-080fc0a90b76en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz640
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/17220
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC History Department Collection
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dc.subjectboundariesen_US
dc.subjectMount Changbaien_US
dc.subjectEast Asiaen_US
dc.subjectTumen Riveren_US
dc.subjectMount Paektuen_US
dc.titleSteps in the Tumen Riveren_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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