evidence: His book Border of Water and Ice (forthcoming October 2024) examines the Yalu River boundary between northern Korea and China during a period of Japanese expansion in the region. Drawing on previously unexamined sources in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, he argues that the seasonally freezing, thawing, and flooding river was a critical actor in imperial border creation and contestation. As part of his multilingual research on Korean history, Seeley has also published on topics such as animal disease control in colonial Korea, US-Korean diplomatic history, Korean tiger-human relations, and the history of Japanese colonial zoos in Seoul and Taipei. [...] Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japanese Imperialism in Korea and Manchuria [pre-order from Cornell University Press: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777387/border-of-water-and-ice/#bookTabs=1] [...] "Dammed Fish: Piscatorial Developmentalism and the Remaking of the Yalu River." In David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, and Albert L. Park, eds., Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). Book available for free e-download: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768798/forces-of-nature/#bookTabs=1 "Reeds, River Islands, and Inter-Imperial Conflict on the Early Twentieth-Century Sino-Korean Border." Water History Vol. 12 (September 2020): 373–384.