Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Despite progress in research on the rural-reconstruction movements, we are still missing some important questions related to their connective methodology. How was the self to articulate with the local, national and the global? How was the self to manage the inevitable tensions in the pull of these scales, but especially the tensions between the loc

The de facto Japanese rulers made common cause with these societies by utilizing their historical vocabulary and pledging to bring about a Chinese or Asiatic modernity.

Even while struggling to free themselves from Chinese hegemony, Korean nationalists were faced by Japanese colonialism, which sought to depict Koreans as lesser versions of the Japanese and tried ultimately to assimilate them.

The principal historical argument of this book is that the dynamic between circulatory history and institutionalized transcendence becomes radically transformed under the conditions of the capitalism and the nation-state that it has itself fostered.