Borders in East and West

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and director of the Institute for social movements at Ruhr Universitaet Bochum in Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr, and an  Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. Before 2011 he Held Various Positions at British Universities, including Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan. Among his Books are The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe (2015) and Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949 – 1989 (2010).

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Preface

Nobuya Hashimoto



Introduction: Border Experiences in East Asia and Europe – some Theoretical and Conceptual Thoughts

Stefan Berger



Section 1: Economic Borders in the Chinese and Habsburg Empires during the 18th and 19th Centuries

Andrea Komlosy and Kwangmin Kim



Chapter 1. Xinjiang and the Peripheral Pattern of Economic Development in Qing China

Kwangmin Kim



Chapter 2. Habsburg Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective

Andrea Komlosy



Section 2: Tourism and Borderlands

Shizue Osa and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper



Chapter 3. Travelling Jokoshi-Students: Construction of the “Imperial Gaze” through Colonial Tourism during War

Shizue Osa



Chapter 4. Borderlands Tourism as a Memory Practice. A Case Study of the ‘Kresy’ (The Former Polish Eastern Borderlands)

Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper



Section 3: Borders and Migration: A Comparison Between Water and Land

Nobuya Hashimoto



Chapter 5. Crossing the Water Border: Migrations and the Japanese Imperial Seaway Between Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands

Hiroko Matsuda



Chapter 6. Border Town and Migration: The Case of Narva and Russian Speakers in Estonia

Nobuya Hashimoto and Hiromi Komori



Section 4: Borders and Food Classification

Loretta Kim and Ilaria Porciani



Chapter 7. The Way We Eat: Evolving Taxonomies of Non-Han Food Customs in Northeastern China

Loretta Kim



Chapter 8. Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice: Participation, Territory and the Making of Food Heritage in Istria

Ilaria Porciani



Section 5: Gazing and Defining People in the Borderland

Takahiro Yamamoto and Takehiro Okabe



Chapter 9. The Japanese gaze and the memory of the Kuril Ainu

Takahiro Yamamoto



Chapter 10. From Finnic to Soviet Family: Finnic Kinship and Border in the Soviet–Finnish Controversy over the Kalevala from the mid-19th Century to the 1940s

Takehiro Okabe



Section 6: Migration and Inter-Ethnic Conflict at China’s Edge

Seonmin Kim and Balázs Szalontai



Chapter 11. Environmental Relations in the Yalu River Region in the Nineteenth Century

Seonmin Kim



Chapter 12. Smallfolk in a Clash of Empires: Sino-Mongolian Relations and the Ethnic Chinese Community in the Tsedenbal Era, 1960–1984

Balázs Szalontai



Section 7: Geopolitical Rivalries in Russia’s Far North and Far East

Elena I. Campbell and Zhao Xin



Chapter 13. Russian’s Expansions towards the Amur River and Westerners’ Corresponding Explorations in Early Modern Times

Zhao Xin



Chapter 14. “The Land of Bounty:” Constructing the Russian North as Treasure

Elena I. Campbell



Chapter 15. The Horizon of Border Studies: U.S. Military Bases as a Network of Exclaves

Shinji Kawana, Keisuke Mori and Minori Takahashi