Borderlands… From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962 1 Jul 2021 Today I completed a new research article on the broad subject of Maoism's impact on ethnic Koreans in northeast China. The work is slated to appear next year as a…
Borderlands… Memory and Reproduction: A Study of 1980s Chinese Ethnic Korean Revolutionary Narratives—Yun Il-san’s The Roaring Mudan River 15 Jan 201915 Jan 2019 The Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies recently published a new and very exciting paper by two Chinese scholars focusing on an area of great interest to me, and hopefully…
Borderlands… Hyun Ok Park’s History of the Cultural Revolution in Yanbian 11 Mar 201611 Mar 2016 This review was originally published at SinoNK.com, as part of a roundtable including contributions from Andre Schmid (University of Toronto) and Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Australian National University). Paradoxically, scholarship that attempts to…
EU-East Asia relations… From Hyesan to London: Hyeonseo Lee and the New North Korea Defector Memoir 2 Jul 2015 Hyeonseo Lee has produced an excellent memoir, a text which, along with John Sweeney and Emma Graham-Harrison, I will be discussing with her at an event organized by The Guardian…
China… The Perils of Reporting on North Korean Workers in China 12 Jun 201513 Jun 2015 On the last day of the wondrous month of May, Brice Pedroletti, the Le Monde correspondent in China, was in the city of Tumen, along the northernmost point of the…
Borderlands… Bubble at the Summit: Insecurities in Kim Jong-un Itineraries 23 Apr 2015 Is Kim Jong-un staggeringly confident, or do his behaviours and travel itineraries betray personal neuroses and structural fears? The short answer is that it depends on the issue under discussion. Let's…
Borderlands… Fireworks from the Bunker: North Korea’s Role in Borderless Tourist Zone Revealed 5 Mar 2015 Everything about this Reuters piece about a possible breakthrough in Chinese-North Korean cross-border tourism is great, until: "The [tri-national] zone is the latest push by North Korea to transform itself…
Borderlands… New Koguryo Research in Pyongyang, or, How to Revive a Historical Dispute on China’s National Day 3 Oct 2014 It doesn't take much skill at reading tea-leaves in Chinese or English to recognize that Kim Jong-un's letter of congratulations to Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, and Zhang Dejiang on the…
Borderlands… Yuanization and Currency Politics on the DPRK’s Chinese Frontier 22 Sep 201422 Sep 2014 North Korea’s long border with the People’s Republic of China is often seen as a permeable membrane for the movement of people and goods — in other words, as a…
Borderlands… Ambassador Liu Makes a Visit to Rason, North Korea 6 Aug 2014 The Chinese-North Korean relationship is hardly in full comradely bloom, but neither is it in a state of total breakdown and acrimony. Rason, the port/SEZ in the extreme northeast of…
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