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

rethinking of the origins of the North Korean revolution and ultimately the origins of the current nationalism of the North Korean state.

of gradual expansion fromthe acquisition of land and expansion of police and military presence to the establishment of full sovereignty.

important dimension of their history has been neglected: global capitalism and their situation as actors within it.'

While colonialists desire a form of capitalist development that can benefit the entire empire, nationalists aspire to develop a national economy of their own.

The national and colonial powers had encouraged peasant migration from North China and Korea, respectively.

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.

The social is therefore inherently unstable.

Japanese osmotic politics-a strategy

National politics in Manchuria in the 1920s pitted Chinese migrants against Koreans, the former as nationals and the latter as antinationals.