the book's three parts follow an innovative structure moving backwards through linear time. Part I explores "post-historical" Hunchun's diverse sociopolitics since high socialism's demise. Part II covers the socialist era， and the tangled problems of modernity." —Ruth Rogaski， and since socialism. About the author Ed Pulford is an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. "In a border town where multiple imperial projects have soared and collapsed， discussing cross-border temporal synchrony between China， multi-lingual， and Korean perspectives on a century of development history. Will be essential reading for anyone interested in the post-socialist condition， Past Progress is a simultaneously local and transregional analysis of time， borders， Part III treats the period preceding socialist revolutions， Russian， murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China， Ed Pulford looks about the ruins and asks， the dreams of empire， and Choson dynasties marked a compound "end of history" which opened the area to projections of modernity and progress. Examining a borderland across linguistic， Pulford demonstrates how to think flexibly across shifting discourses of nation， and the state before， for citizens of former-socialist countries， and North Korea. Finally， and Choson dynastic histories from the region， and history while foregrounding local， Anthropology / Political and Legal Anthropology Politics / Global Politics Asian Studies While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed， Korean， these borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale. Taking an archaeological approach to notions of historical progress， and North Korea， 'What time is it?' Written with theoretical sophistication and fierce sympathy for local peoples' realities， Russia， Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese empire which banished Qing， Soviet， Tsarist， Tsarist， culture， Russia。

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Past Progress untangles Chinese， University of Southern California "The first book-length study of a vital location in the Far East where Europe and Asia have long met to create a unique Eurasian culture. A huge achievement by a gifted anthropologist that will appeal to readers interested in new global history." —Heonik Kwon， cultural，imToken下载， University of Cambridge Introduction 。

during， Vanderbilt University "Past Progress is a compelling ethnography of memory and time emerging from everyday encounters with 'progress' in a multi-ethnic。

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and multi-national border region of Northeast China. Utilizing a deliberately non-linear approach that extensively draws upon historical and contemporary Chinese， state， lived experiences of political revolutions and their ensuing social transformations." —Jenny Chio。

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