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"North Korea and Myanmar (Burma) are Asia's most mysterious, tragic stories. They were the region's most militarized and repressed societies, sitting out the greatest wealth creation project in the history of the world, one that created a belt of middle classes, comfort and security from Singapore to Japan. They were self-isolating and under sanctions by the international community"--

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Geography and Borderlands Theory: Framing the Region -- 1 Illuminating Edges -- 2 On Asian Borders -- 3 Regions within the Yalu-Tumen Border Space -- Part II Towards a Methodology of Sino-Korean Border Studies -- 4 Unification in Action? -- 5 Ethnography and Borderlands -- 6 Measuring North Korea's Economic Relationships -- 7 Ink and Ashes -- Part III Histories of the Sino-Korean Border Region -- 8 Revisiting the Forgotten Border Gate -- 9 'Utopian Speak' -- 10 The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region 1990 -- Part IV Contemporary Borderland Economics -- 11 Change on the Edges -- 12 Tumen Triangle Tribulations -- 13 Purges and Peripheries -- 14 From Periphery to Centre -- Part V Human Rights and Identity in the Borderland and Beyond -- 15 Land of Promise or Peril? -- 16 Celebrity Defectors -- 17 North Korean Border-Crossers -- 18 The Limits of Koreanness -- Afterword -- Index