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Subject(s)

• Korea—Emigration and immigration—History [Browse]
• Koreans—Foreign countries [Browse]
• Korea—History—20th century [Browse]

Editor

• Cho, Joanne Miyang, 1959- [Browse]
• Roberts, Lee M. [Browse]
• Sŏng, Sang-hwan, 1963- [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in modern history [More in this series]

Summary note

"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, military hygiene and sex workers, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Transnationalism, migration, historiography, and organization / Joanne Miyang Cho and Lee M. Roberts
• The origins of democratic republicanism in Korea : the Korean National Association of North America Convention in Riverside (1911) / Edward T. Chang
• Globalization under colonialism : Royal Dutch Shell's Korean oil business and the resistance of colonial Korean workers / Myung Ho Hyun
• A comparative history of prisons in Korea and Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule / Cheng-Yu Lin
• Bulgaria's "humanitarian" aid to North Korea : economic aid, medical brigades, and refugee assistance, 1950-1962 / Margarita Kichukova
• Cold War politics of the Korean Peninsula in the 1960s : inter-Korean conflicts and North Korean diplomatic strategies / Sang Hwan Seong
• Post-war Korean diasporas in Sakhalin and Japan : a comparative analysis of media, education and arts / Hyewon Song
• Japanese and Korean return migrants in Sapporo (Japan) and Ansan (South Korea) / Svetlana Paichadze
• Recreated homeland and space imagination : the dilemma of the left-behind Korean community in China / Jingyi Li
• Exhibiting Korean-ness : displays of ethnic identity at the "Russian Korean History Museum" / Zachary Miller Adamz
• Memories of home mediated through food : Korean migrants in Germany / Suin Roberts
• The Korean presence in Spain : a study of Korean communities / Arturo Cosano-Ramos and Antonio J. Domenech
• Two generations of Korean women's perspectives on the American dream / Keumjae Park.

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ISBN

• 9781032111650 ((hardback))
• 1032111658 ((hardback))
• 9781032111667 ((paperback))
• 1032111666 ((paperback))

LCCN

2023030328

OCLC

1412048015

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