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

Although the Protectorate Treaty signed in 19o5 authorized Japan to represent Korea in international affairs (and thus authorized the signing of the Kando Treaty), the absence of the required signature of the Korean emperor Kojong on the Protectorate Treaty has generated disputes over the validity of both the Protectorate Treaty and the Kando Treat

archival sources in Korea, China, and Japan

In rgog, Japan represented Korea in settling the territorial disputes over Kando, signing the Kando Treaty.

social approach to nationalism exposes intrinsic indeterminability as a temporal marker of the nation.

The study of Manchurian history among a radical group of South Korean historians served as much a critique of the South Korean regime as an endorsement of North Korea.6

caught up in the political struggles between Japan and Chinese national powers.

The exclusion of Koreans in the 1920S pledged to reverse a Chinese policy that had been in place since the mid-nineteenth century, one that encouraged Koreans to become naturalized as Chinese nationals.

Whereas the relation between capitalism and nationalism has been explored mainly in terms of the effect of the latter on the former, it also involves the other side of the equation: the effects of contradictory capitalist forces on nation formation.

The Treaty on South Manchuria and East Inner Mongolia, which the Chinese and Japanese governments signed in ig15, delineated landownership and leasing rights by Japanese subjects as a primary site of contention between Japan and China.