Two Dreams in One Bed

Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria

AvHyun Ok Park

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political, military, and economic terms. Park presents a compelling analysis of the constitutive effects of capitalist expansion on the social practices of Korean migrants in the region.Drawing on a rich archive of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese sources, Park describes how Koreans negotiated the contradictory demands of national and colonial powers. She demonstrates that the dynamics of global capitalism led the Chinese and Japanese to pursue capitalist expansion while competing for sovereignty. Decentering the nation-state as the primary analytic rubric, her emphasis on the role of global capitalism is a major innovation for understanding nationalism, colonialism, and their immanent links in social space. Through a regional and temporal comparison of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century until 1945, Park details how national and colonial powers enacted their claims to sovereignty through the regulation of access to land, work, and loans. She shows that among Korean migrants, the complex connections among Chinese laws, Japanese colonial policies, and Korean social practices gave rise to a form of nationalism in tension with global revolution-a nationalism that laid the foundation for what came to be regarded as North Korea’s isolationist politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-11-04
Mått:152 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822336143

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Hyun Ok Park is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University.

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“Original, well written, and ambitious, this volume reframes our understanding of ‘the social’ in a new way. By emphasizing the ways in which the Korean diaspora served as a mechanism for extending Japanese empire and by attending to various organizations of agricultural production and the everyday signs of difference, Hyun Ok Park develops a deeply social account of historical capitalism that supplements, and challenges, conventional sensibilities of imperialism. Essential for Asian studies, but a critical read for historical sociology.”-Michael D. Kennedy, author of Cultural Formations of Postcommunism “This is a terrific book, one that demonstrates social processes among the colonized under imperialist rule. By focusing on Koreans in Manchuria, Two Dreams in One Bed decenters the nation-state-Korea, China, or Japan-and imagines a regional history. It is a new kind of study that challenges us to recognize the historicity of our major conceptual categories, and it should help us formulate a post–Cold War East Asian studies.”-Stefan Tanaka, author of New Times in Modern Japan “Hyun Ok Park’s book is a good example of deep and insightful research. It is a pioneering study which shakes some taboos, exposes ingrained misperceptions and introduces valuable new material. The book greatly increases our understanding of the social, economic, and political history of North East Asia between the two world wars.” - Andrewi Lankov (Acta Koreana)

Innehållsförteckning

Preface xiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 11. The Politics of Osmosis: Korean Migration and the Japanese Empire 242. Between Nation and Market 643. Agency of Japanese Imperialism 964. Multiethnic Agrarian Communities 1245. Colonial Governmentality 1626. The Specter of the Social: Socialist Internationalism, the Minsaengdan, and North Korea 198Epilogue 231Notes 241Glossary 281Bibliography 285Index 303