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Mobile Subjects draws attention to modern Korean experiences with mobility, experiences that played an important role in forming Korean constructions of an ethnonationalistic discourse of territori...
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  • Publication Date: 01 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9781557291042
  • Pages: 240
  • Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Mobile Subjects draws attention to modern Korean experiences with mobility, experiences that played an important role in forming Korean constructions of an ethnonationalistic discourse of territoriality. By drawing attention to mobility in subjectivity—to the contested nature of subjectivity in the processes of mobility—this volume seeks to connect the experiences of the Korean diaspora with those of the homeland, thereby enriching an understanding of Korean nationalism from its flip side. The essays in this collection, by focusing on mobility, offer a rich and complex picture of changing circumstances on the Korean peninsula over the course of the past one-and-a-half centuries. They underscore the point that there have been intimate connections between national constructions and spatial mobility. They also demonstrate the intellectual fruitfulness of an approach to the peninsula that brings in the continental as well as maritime dimensions of the Korean diaspora.
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Korea Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 June 2013
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557291042
Format: Paperback
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Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners. Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

Acknowledgments – 1
Wen-hsin Yeh

Introduction – 3
Wen-hsin Yeh

1. Korean Migration in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria: A Global Theme in Modern Asian History – 17
    Kwangmin Kim

2. Status and Smoke: Koreans in Japan’s Opium Empire – 38
    Miriam Kingsberg

3. Women on the Loose: Household System and Family Anxiety in Colonial Korea – 61
    Sungyun Lim

4. An Indispensable Edge: American Military Camptowns in Postwar Korea – 88
    W. Taejin Hwang

5. U.S.-Educated Elites and the Phenomenon of Study Abroad – 123
    Jane Cho

6. Homes on the Border: Ethnicity, Identity, and Everyday Space in Yanbian – 148
    Yishi Liu

7. Exit, Voice, and Refugees: A Case Study to Understanding Political Stability and Emigration in North – 183
    Ivo Plsek

Contributors – 217
Index – 221