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This Pater aims to reveal the character of the modern ‘border politics’ in Northeast asia(“the East Sea Rim Region”) by analyzing interaction between the notion of ‘the Other’ and the national narratives in the late 1980's and 1900's. The intellectuals of the northeast who understood themselves as pioneers of civilization produced the image of Wildness and primitive peoples contrast to modernity and modern peoples(the nation) to write travel works of the borderlands of northeast asia. The image of primitivity also was coincident with old common sense of the orient that the western had regarded the eastern civilization as inferior. The northeast intellectuals travelled the borderlands of their countries as Russian and Japanese was interested in propagation of primitive images. Therefore to write essays about the eastern primitive life, they selected primitive features, strengthened their orientalism or colonization and started analyzing them as the others of the civilization. But Korean intellectuals travelled the northeastern borderlands seemed to be based on the idea that they ware the pioneer and the subjugated class, so they were feeling not to unify their historical imagination and the colonized reality. On the other hand, Chinese writers described their primitivity as Chinese roots. The cultural representations of borderlands had been articulated with the national narratives. the discourse of borderlands reveals the inconsistency of the national narratives.