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About the Author: Nianshen Song (University of Maryland)

Nianshen Song (宋念申) is Associate Professor of History and affiliated faculty in the Asian Studies Program at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. His research focuses on late imperial and modern China, with special interest in China’s ethnic frontiers, East Asian trans-regional networks, historical geography, and international relations. He is the author of Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His articles have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of Asian Studies, and Geopolitics, among others. Dr. Song has also published many academic articles in Chinese language. His Chinese monograph 发现东亚 [Discovering East Asia] (Beijing: New Star Press, 2018; Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, 2019; Hong Kong: Open Page, 2019) rethinks East Asia’s intricate relations with global modernity from the sixteenth century onward. The Korean edition was published in 2020.

About the Book: Making Borders in Modern East Asia: the Tumen River Demarcation, 1881-1919

In the late nineteenth century, countless Korean refugees crossed the Tumen River border into Qing-China’s Manchuria and triggered a decades-long territorial dispute among China, Korea, and Japan. The competition over the demarcation of the Manchurian-Korean boundary and rulership over the Korean immigrants shaped modern East Asia in the twentieth century. Under the background that Manchuria, traditionally a Qing royal reserve for hunting and gathering, was rapidly penetrated by global capitalism and colonialism, the space under dispute soon developed from a socioeconomic periphery to a strategic agricultural area and geopolitical hub. Along with this change, the usual way to perceive and regulate land, people, border, state and history was significantly revised throughout the demarcation process. In this way, the contestation over both the border and the Korean diaspora, simultaneously, promoted China’s frontier-building endeavors, motivated Korea’s nationalist imagination, and stimulated Japan’s colonialist enterprise. It foreshadows the paths of nation- and state-buildings in twentieth century East Asia.