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.