ABSTRACT
Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea’s national experience throughout its existence.
The volume portrays Korea’s frequent transnational entanglements with other nations in East Asia and the West from the start of its annexation into the Empire of Japan in 1910 to the present day. It explores how modern Korea negotiated its complicated colonial relations with imperial Japan and its political and economic relations with the West in meeting the challenges of the globalized world. Early chapters cover the origins of Korea’s democratic republicanism among Korean immigrants in the United States, the Royal-Dutch oil industry in Korea, and prisons in the Japanese empire. From the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, the book probes Cold War politics between Korea and Europe, transnational Korean communities in China, Japan, the Russian Far East, and the West, and ethnic Korean returnees from the Russian Far East.
With contributions from leading international scholars, this collection’s attention to modern Korean history, economy, gender studies, and migration is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|100 pages
Korea's Transnational Relations to Asia and the West
chapter 302|16 pages
The Origins of Democratic Republicanism in Korea
chapter 3|23 pages
Globalization under Colonialism
chapter 5|13 pages
Bulgaria's “Humanitarian” Aid to North Korea
chapter 6|18 pages
Cold War Politics of the Korean Peninsula in the 1960s
part II|88 pages
Korean Communities in Japan, China, and the Russian Far East since 1945
chapter 1307|19 pages
Post-War Korean Diasporas in Sakhalin and Japan
chapter 9|17 pages
Recreated Homeland and Space Imagination
chapter 10|30 pages
Exhibiting Korean-ness
part III|68 pages
Korean Communities in the West since the 1960s