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

dc.contributor.authorSeeley, Joseph A.
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-10T17:07:31Z
dc.date.available2025-02-10T17:07:31Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-15
dc.description.abstractBorder 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.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/ybf4-2729
dc.identifier.isbn9781501777370 (print hardcover)
dc.identifier.isbn9781501777387 (print paperback)
dc.identifier.isbn9781501777400 (epub)
dc.identifier.isbn9781501777394 (PDF ebook)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/116700
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCornell University Pressen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectJapanese Imperialismen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Historyen_US
dc.subjectMilitary Historyen_US
dc.subjectWeatheren_US
dc.subjectSeasonal Changeen_US
dc.titleBorder of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuriaen_US
dc.typebooken_US
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schema.accessibilityFeaturestructural navigationen_US
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