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January 23, 2006 |
North Korea’s RevolutionManoa alumna Hyun Ok Park published Two Dreams on One Bed: Empire, Social Life and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution. Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria.
Drawing on a rich archive of Korean, Japanese and Chinese sources, Park describes how Koreans negotiated the contradictory demands of national and colonial powers. She demonstrates that the dynamics of global capitalism led the Chinese and Japanese to pursue capitalist expansion while competing for sovereignty. Decentering the nation-state as the primary analytic rubric, her emphasis on the role of global capitalism is a major innovation for understanding nationalism, colonialism, and their immanent links in social space. Through a regional and temporal comparison of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century until 1945, Park details how national and colonial powers enacted their claims to sovereignty through the regulation of access to land, work and loans. She shows that among Korean migrants, the complex connections among Chinese laws, Japanese colonial policies and Korean social practices gave rise to a form of nationalism in tension with global revolution—a nationalism that laid the foundation for what came to be regarded as North Korea's isolationist politics. Two Dreams on One Bed: Empire, Social Life and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution is available from Duke University Press. —Text excerpted from the publisher’s website.
UH In Print UH faculty and staff who had articles or other works published. • Manoa Associate Professor Amy S. Hubbard co-authored “Breaking Up and New Beginnings: Reconstructing Relational Interaction Order in Post-Divorce Recovery Groups” in Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places. • Hilo Assistant Professor Drew Martin had “Advertising Acculturation in Japan: Examples from Foreign Actors” published in Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics. E-mail news about UH faculty and staff who have appeared In Print to newsatuh@hawaii.edu. |
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Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent
relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political,
military and economic terms. Park presents a compelling analysis
of the constitutive effects of capitalist expansion on the social
practices of Korean migrants in the region |
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