Mobile subjects
Subtitle: boundaries and identities in the modern Korean diaspora
By: edited by Wen-hsin Yeh
Contributors: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of East Asian Studies
Series: Korea research monograph -- 36
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Koreans; Internal Migration; Korean National characteristics; Emigration and immigration; History; Nationalism; Colonization
Description: By drawing attention to mobility in subjectivity - to the contested nature of subjectivity in the processes of mobility - this volume seeks to connect the experiences of the Korean diaspora with those of the homeland, thereby enriching an understanding of Korean nationalism from its flip side.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Korean migration in nineteenth-century Manchuria : a global theme in modern Asian history / Kwangmin Kim; title: Status and smoke : Koreans in Japan's opium empire / Miriam Kingsberg; title: Women on the loose : household system and family anxiety in colonial Korea / Sungyun Lim; title: An indispensable edge : American military camptowns in postwar Korea / W. Taejin Hwang; title: U.S.-educated elites and the phenomenon of study abroad / Jane Cho; title: Homes on the border : ethnicity, identity, and everyday space in Yanbian / Yishi Liu; title: Exit, voice, and refugees : a case study to understanding political stability and emigration in North Korea / Ivo Plsek.