Melancholy Borders

Andrew B. Liu is associate professor of history at Villanova University. He is the author of Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (2020).Owen Miller is assistant professor of history at Bilkent University. He is the author of The Conquest of the Mountains: State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East (2025).Meha Priyadarshini is senior lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade (2018).

• Preface: Tensions of Global Mobility, by Andrew B. Liu, Owen Miller, and Meha PriyadarshiniIntroductıons1. Adam McKeown: An Appreciation, by Patrick Manning2. Adam McKeown and History in the Modern World, by Matthew Connelly3. Globalizing Chinese History: A Maverick’s Contribution, by Eugenia LeanPart I. Theoretical Interjections4. “Tempest-Tost”? Climate and Global Migration in Historical Perspective, by Sam White5. From Sentimentalists to Global Elites: “Replacement” Thinking in Western Europe and theUnited States Since the 1830s, by Leo LucassenPart II. Solidarity and the Making of Global Networks6. Connections: Kinship as a Repertoire in the Evolution of Global Capitalism, by Rachel Tamar Van7. Destroying the Family to Save the Nation: Rethinking the Role of Overseas Chinese inChina’s War of Resistance Against Japan, by Jack Neubauer8. Mobility, Borders, and Global Histories of Asia: A Sino-Islamic Perspective, by John ChenPart III. Global Migration and Sovereign State Regimes9. Refugees at the Ends of Empire: The Catastrophes of the Circassians and Armenians, by Owen Miller10. Staking Claims to Manchuria: Russian, Chinese, and Japanese Reflections on theBlagoveshchensk Massacre Since 1900, by Martin T. Fromm11. Negotiating Sovereignties: Deportations and the Cold War “Chinese Question” in thePhilippines, 1952–1970, by Chien-Wen Kung12. Traitors to the Nation: Labor Migrants and Socialist Citizenship in Guinea’s First Republic, by John StraussbergerEpılogues13. The Alchemy of Order, by Lauren Benton14. Adam McKeown and I: On Historiography and the History of Migration, by José C. MoyaBibliography of Adam Mckeowns’s WorksContributorsIndex

More than a tribute to the work of the late Adam McKeown, essays included in Melancholy Borders point to the many corners of the world where a modern tension between mobility and restriction illustrates contestations over power, freedom, and human autonomy not often captured in national treatments of immigration.