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Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria

Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria

Park, Hyun Ok

Paperback

Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Chinese History

ISBN10: 0822336146
ISBN13: 9780822336143
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Nov 4 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.66 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
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.

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