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

These include the embryonic idea of treating the commons as a new area of inviolability, sacredness and transcendence.

capitalism and the furious reactions against capitalism somehow combined to force concrete personal relationships into the abstract social and political interactions of modernity.

Such a self-serving logic was a typical rationalization of Japanese colonialism among technocrats, to whom Manchuria was especially attractive because of its natural resources and flexible political system.16