Short description:

Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea?s national experience throughout its existence.

Long description:

Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea?s national experience throughout its existence.

The volume portrays Korea?s frequent transnational entanglements with other nations in East Asia and the West from the start of its annexation into the Empire of Japan in 1910 to the present day. It explores how modern Korea negotiated its complicated colonial relations with imperial Japan and its political and economic relations with the West in meeting the challenges of the globalized world. Early chapters cover the origins of Korea?s democratic republicanism among Korean immigrants in the United States, the Royal-Dutch oil industry in Korea, and prisons in the Japanese empire. From the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, the book probes Cold War politics between Korea and Europe, transnational Korean communities in China, Japan, the Russian Far East, and the West, and ethnic Korean returnees from the Russian Far East.

With contributions from leading international scholars, this collection?s attention to modern Korean history, economy, gender studies, and migration is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates.

Table of Contents:

1. Transnationalism, Migration, Historiography, and Organization  Part 1: Korea?s Transnational Relations to Asia and the West: Politics, Economy, and Prison  2.  The Origins of Democratic Republicanism in Korea: The Korean National Association of North America Convention in Riverside (1911)  3. Globalization under Colonialism: Royal Dutch Shell's Korean Oil Business and the Resistance of Colonial Korean Workers  4. A Comparative History of Prisons in Korea and Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule  5. Bulgaria?s ?Humanitarian? Aid to North Korea: Economic Aid, Medical Brigades, and Refugee Assistance, 1950?1962  6. Cold War Politics of the Korean Peninsula in the 1960s: Inter-Korean Conflicts and North Korean Diplomatic Strategies  Part 2: Korean Communities in Japan, China, and the Russian Far East since 1945  7. Post-War Korean Diasporas in Sakhalin and Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Media, Education and Arts  8. Japanese and Korean Return Migrants in Sapporo (Japan) and Ansan (South Korea)  9. Recreated Homeland and Space Imagination: The Dilemma of the Left-Behind Korean Community in China  10. Exhibiting Korean-ness: Displays of Ethnic Identity at the ?Russian Korean History Museum?  Part 3:  Korean Communities in the West since the 1960s  11. Memories of Home Mediated through Food: Korean Migrants in Germany  12. The Korean Presence in Spain: A Study of Korean Communities  13. Two Generations of Korean Women?s Perspectives on the American Dream