Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria by Seeley, Joseph A.
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria by Seeley, Joseph A.

Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria

Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between...
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Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria by Seeley, Joseph A.

Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria

$90.40
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria by Seeley, Joseph A.

Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria

$90.40
Author: Joseph A. Seeley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph A. Seeley shows how the unpredictable movements of water, ice, timber-cutters, anti-Japanese guerrillas, smugglers, and other borderland actors also spilled outside the bounds set by Japanese colonizers, even as imperial border-making reinforced Japan's wider political and economic power.

Drawing on archival sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, Seeley tells the story of the river and the imperial border haphazardly imposed on its surface from 1905 to 1945 to show how rivers and other nonhuman actors play an active role in border creation and maintenance. Emphasizing the tenuous, environmentally contingent nature of imperial border governance, Border of Water and Ice argues for the importance of understanding history across the different seasons.



Author: Joseph A. Seeley
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781501777387

About the Author

Joseph Seeley is Assistant Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the histories of Korea, the Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments and borderlands.


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