Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea

by Ed Pulford

Book Overview

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503638189
• ISBN13: 9781503638181
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"