Borders in East and West: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Making Sense of History Book 45)

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. Contents Illustrations Preface Introduction. Border Experiences in East Asia and Europe Some Theoretical and Conceptual Thoughts Part I Economic Borders in the Chinese and Habsburg Empires during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Introduction CHAPTER 1 Xinjiang and the Peripheral Pattern of Economic Development in Qing China CHAPTER 2 Habsburg Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective Part II Tourism and Borderlands Introduction CHAPTER 3 Travelling Jokoshi Students: Construction of the ‘Imperial Gaze’ through Colonial Tourism during War CHAPTER 4 Borderlands Tourism as a Memory Practice: A Case Study of the ‘Kresy’ (The Former Polish Eastern Borderlands) Part III Borders and Migration: A Comparison between Water and Land Introduction CHAPTER 5 Crossing the Water Border: Migrations and the Japanese Imperial Seaway between Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands CHAPTER 6 A Border Town and Migration: The Case of Narva and Russian Speakers in Estonia Part IV Borders and Food Classification Introduction CHAPTER 7 The Way We Eat: Evolving Taxonomies of Non-Han Food Customs in North-Eastern China CHAPTER 8 Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice: Participation, Territory and the Making of Food Heritage in Istria Part V Gazing at and Defining People in the Borderland Introduction CHAPTER 9 The Japanese Gaze and the Memory of the Kuril Ainu CHAPTER 10. From Finnic to Soviet Family: Finnic Kinship and Borders in the Soviet–Finnish Controversy over the Kalevala from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the 1940s Part VI Migration and Interethnic Conflict at China’s Edge Introduction CHAPTER 11 Environmental Relations in the Yalu River Region in the Nineteenth Century CHAPTER 12 Smallfolk in a Clash of Empires: Sino-Mongolian Relations and the Ethnic Chinese Community in the Tsedenbal Era, 1960–84 Part VII Geopolitical Rivalries in Russia’s Far North and Far East Introduction CHAPTER 13 Russia’s Expansions towards the Amur River and Westerners’ Corresponding Explorations in Early Modern Times CHAPTER 14 ‘Land of Bounty’ Constructing the Russian North as a National Treasure Conclusion: The Horizon of Border Studies US Military Bases as a Network of Exclaves Index "How we define border studies is transforming from focus sing 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"-- Provided by publisher

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.