Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Borders of China and Japan
i encroach on to kind of carve out tiny piece of, say, the ports on the yanse river or some other rivers. All these encroachments also en croch on borders, even though it's not quite what we understand borders as the line on a map between two nations. So all these are in um kind of ing work in what i see as this kind of bot internal and external borders in functioning and in shaping people's mo especially the physical tribal mobility. But at the same time, i want to show through a few examples to see how borders can crumble and emerge kind of overnight.
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