Burnt by the sun : the Koreans of the Russian Far East / Jon K. Chang.

Author
Chang, Jon K. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Description
x, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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    Perspectives on the global past [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Author Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic and maligned nationality (ethnic community) during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. He argues that Tsarist influences and the various forms of Russian nationalism(s) and worldviews blinded the Stalinist regime from seeing the Koreans as loyal Soviet citizens. Instead, these influences portrayed them as a colonizing element (labor force) with unknown and unknowable political loyalties. --Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The RFE as a frontier melting pot, 1863-1917
    • Intervention, 1918-1922
    • Korean korenizatsiia and socialist construction
    • Koreans becoming a Soviet people, 1923-1930
    • Security concerns trumping korenizatsiia, 1931-1937
    • The Korean deportation and life in Central Asia, 1937-early 1940s
    • Voices in the field.
    ISBN
    • 9780824856786 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0824856783 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015046032
    OCLC
    932463357
    Other standard number
    • 40026256998
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