The Northeast Project: A different perspective on the Kando/ Jiandao 間島issue between Korea and China
The Northeast Project, ostensibly led by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is a project that began in 2002 to make Manchuria a part of China’s history from ancient times to the present. In the 21st century, why is China making Manchuria a part of Chinese history through the Northeast Project? The Northeast Project also newly presented Korean ancient history as a part of Chinese history. In this special lecture, I will examine the historical origins of the Kando/ Jiandao 間島 issue (Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, China), which is a border or territorial issue between Korea and China, and analyze how China is trying to change and strengthen the Kando issue in modern times to implement Chinese territorial claims. (See attached announcement for more details.)

Sunyoung Park is professor in the Department of History at Sejong University, Seoul. She holds a PhD in East Asian Modern History from Nanjing University. She has been a visiting scholar at Yenching Institute, Harvard University, and at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo University. She is the author of Manchuria Volunteers (in Chinese, published in Beijing) and Glocal Manchuria (in Korean, published with a grant from the Harvard-Yenching Institute), among others.
Date: 15 February 2024, 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Spalding Room, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 1 Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE
Speaker: Professor Dr Sunyoung Park (Sejong University and Oxford)
Organiser: Dr James Lewis MA (AMES, Oxford)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark