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How we define border studies is transforming from focussing on a line in the sand to the more complex notions of how constituting a border is practiced, sustained and modified. In the expansion of borders studies, the areas explored across Europe and Asia have been numerous, but the specific themes that arise through comparative case studies are novel when approach Europe and Asian borderlands. Comparing the border experiences in East Asia and Europe in a number of thematic clusters ranging from economics, tourism, and food production to ethnicity, migration and conquest, Borders in East and West aims to decenter border studies from its current focus on the Americas and Europe.

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Author:   Stefan Berger ,  Nobuya Hashimoto
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800736238

ISBN 10:   1800736231
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   13 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Preface Nobuya Hashimoto Introduction: Border Experiences in East Asia and Europe - some Theoretical and Conceptual Thoughts Stefan Berger Section 1: Economic Borders in the Chinese and Habsburg Empires during the 18th and 19th Centuries Andrea Komlosy and Kwangmin Kim Chapter 1. Xinjiang and the Peripheral Pattern of Economic Development in Qing China Kwangmin Kim Chapter 2. Habsburg Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective Andrea Komlosy Section 2: Tourism and Borderlands Shizue Osa and Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Chapter 3. Travelling Jokoshi-Students: Construction of the Imperial Gaze through Colonial Tourism during War Shizue Osa Chapter 4. Borderlands Tourism as a Memory Practice. A Case Study of the 'Kresy' (The Former Polish Eastern Borderlands) Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Section 3: Borders and Migration: A Comparison Between Water and Land Nobuya Hashimoto Chapter 5. Crossing the Water Border: Migrations and the Japanese Imperial Seaway Between Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands Hiroko Matsuda Chapter 6. Border Town and Migration: The Case of Narva and Russian Speakers in Estonia Nobuya Hashimoto and Hiromi Komori Section 4: Borders and Food Classification Loretta Kim and Ilaria Porciani Chapter 7. The Way We Eat: Evolving Taxonomies of Non-Han Food Customs in Northeastern China Loretta Kim Chapter 8. Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice: Participation, Territory and the Making of Food Heritage in Istria Ilaria Porciani Section 5: Gazing and Defining People in the Borderland Takahiro Yamamoto and Takehiro Okabe Chapter 9. The Japanese gaze and the memory of the Kuril Ainu Takahiro Yamamoto Chapter 10. From Finnic to Soviet Family: Finnic Kinship and Border in the Soviet-Finnish Controversy over the Kalevala from the mid-19th Century to the 1940s Takehiro Okabe Section 6: Migration and Inter-Ethnic Conflict at China's Edge Seonmin Kim and Balazs Szalontai Chapter 11. Environmental Relations in the Yalu River Region in the Nineteenth Century Seonmin Kim Chapter 12. Smallfolk in a Clash of Empires: Sino-Mongolian Relations and the Ethnic Chinese Community in the Tsedenbal Era, 1960-1984 Balazs Szalontai Section 7: Geopolitical Rivalries in Russia's Far North and Far East Elena I. Campbell and Zhao Xin Chapter 13. Russian's Expansions towards the Amur River and Westerners' Corresponding Explorations in Early Modern Times Zhao Xin Chapter 14. The Land of Bounty: Constructing the Russian North as Treasure Elena I. Campbell Chapter 15. The Horizon of Border Studies: U.S. Military Bases as a Network of Exclaves Shinji Kawana, Keisuke Mori and Minori Takahashi

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Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and director of the Institute for social movements at Ruhr Universitaet Bochum in Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr, and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. Before 2011 he Held Various Positions at British Universities, including Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan. Among his Books are The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe (2015) and Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949 - 1989 (2010).

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