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Figure 6. A section of the Great Wall that overlooks North Korea just north of Dandong, 2018. Like many prominent architectures along the border, the wall emblematizes the imbrication of geopolitics and infrastructure and of landscape and history. Photograph by the author. More

Figure 5. Sinuiju at night, 2018. Notwithstanding North Korea's routine electricity shortage and rolling blackouts, the “mystery lights” known to Dandong residents glow reliably each evening. These eerie light rays are actually the result of spotlights being cast on two large bronze statues More

Figure 14. A hotel room in Longjing, Jilin Province, at the border between China and North Korea. The hotel provides telescopes for Chinese tourists to observe life on the other side of the border. Image from Freezing Land. More

Figure 17. A Mao statue in front of the Dandong train station, 2018. Completed in 1971, the statue unusually faces away from the public square, a design choice that was made because the Chinese did not want Mao to point toward North Korea to the east. Photograph by the author. More

Figure 21. “Commemoration of a Victorious Return, Andong, August 23, 1953.” A portrait of a Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldier returning from the battlefield in North Korea. It was common for these soldiers to have their portraits taken as they passed through Dandong, which was called More