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

In an endless exchange of commodities and money, land becomes fictitious capital.

social relations of commodity production and exchange.

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

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 social refers to the associations among "free" individuals that constitute civil society, which the colonized must learn from the colonizer in order to be modern.

As for Japanese history, the study of Manchuria focuses on a range of

In Manchuria, the governments of the three northeastern provinces (referred to as the Northeast government hereafter), Chinese merchants, and Japan negotiated and disputed with one another. Their triangular politics negated the simpler binary opposition of national and colonial politics.

historically specific ways in which people negotiate capitalist economic principles and national representations of capitalist dynamics.