Acknowledgements
Introduction (Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney)
I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region
1 Illuminating Edges: Borders as Institutions, Process, Space (Edward Boyle)
2 On Asian Borderlands: The Value of Comparative Studies (Elisabeth Leake)
3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space: From Dandong to the Tumen and Beyond (Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, and Steven Denney)
II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies
4 Unification in Action? The National Identity of North Korean Defector-Migrants: Insights and Implications (Steven Denney and Christopher Green)
5 Ethnography and Borderlands: The Socio-political Dimensions of North Korean Migration (Markus Bell and Rosita Armytage)
6 Measuring North Korea's Economic Relationships: Evidence from the Borderlands (Kent Boydston)
7 Ink and Ashes: Documents, Destruction, and North Korea's Mythic Origins in the Border Region, 1931-1945 (Adam Cathcart)
III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region
8 Revisiting the Forgotten Frontier: Fenghuang Gate, Qing-Chos?n Contacts, and the Rise of Modern Chinese State, 1636-1876 (Yuanchong Wang)
9 'Utopian Speak': Language Assimilation in China's Yanbian Korean Borderland, 1958-1976 (Dong Jo Shin)
10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in 1990: A Journey to the Border in a Time of Flux (Warwick Morris and James Hoare)
IV Contemporary Borderland Politics and Economics
11 Change on the Edges: The Rajin-Sonbong Economic and Trade Zone (Théo Clément)
12 Tumen Triangle Tribulations: The Unfulfilled Promise of Chinese, Russian, and North Korean Cooperation (Andray Abrahamian)
13 Purges and Peripheries: Jang Song-taek, Pyongyang's SEZ Strategy, and Relations with China (Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green)
14 From Periphery to Centre: A History of North Korean Marketization (Peter Ward and Christopher Green)
V Human Rights and Identity
15 Land of Promise or Peril? The Sino-North Korea Border Space and Human Rights (Nicholas Hamisevicz and Andrew Yeo)
16 Celebrity Defectors: Representations of North Korea in Euro-American and South Korean Intimate Publics (Sarah Bregman)
17 North Korean Border-Crossers : The Legal Status of North Korean Migrants in China (Hee Choi [translated by Robert Lauler])
18 The Limits of Koreanness: Korean Encounters in Russo-Chinese Yanbian (Ed Pulford)
VI Afterword (Kevin Gray)
VII Index