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Sovereignty Experiments : Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 / Alyssa M. Park.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (306 p.) : 6 b&w halftones, 5 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501738371
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89570509041 23
LOC classification:
  • DS904.7
  • DS904.7 .P37 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Places and Terms -- Introduction -- Part I. ACROSS THE TUMEN VALLEY -- 1. Borderland and Prohibited Zone -- 2. People and Place: Jurisdiction and Borders, 1860–1888 -- 3. Contested Border: Multiple Sovereignties, Multiple Citizenships in Manchuria -- 4. Civilizational Border: Subjects, Aliens, and Illegality in the Russian Far East -- Part II. ACROSS THE TUMEN NORTH BANK: IN RUSSIA -- 5. Transforming Ussuri: Migration and Settlement -- 6. Transnational World of the Korean Settlement -- 7. Making Them One of Us -- Epilogue: Denouement of Borders -- Glossary -- Note on Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Summary: Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Places and Terms -- Introduction -- Part I. ACROSS THE TUMEN VALLEY -- 1. Borderland and Prohibited Zone -- 2. People and Place: Jurisdiction and Borders, 1860–1888 -- 3. Contested Border: Multiple Sovereignties, Multiple Citizenships in Manchuria -- 4. Civilizational Border: Subjects, Aliens, and Illegality in the Russian Far East -- Part II. ACROSS THE TUMEN NORTH BANK: IN RUSSIA -- 5. Transforming Ussuri: Migration and Settlement -- 6. Transnational World of the Korean Settlement -- 7. Making Them One of Us -- Epilogue: Denouement of Borders -- Glossary -- Note on Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University

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Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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