Identity, Policy, And Prosperity: Border Nationality Of The Korean Diaspora And Regional Development In Northeast China (china In Transformation)
by Jeongwon Bourdais Park /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book offers a rare glimpse into China's Korean minority,
which dominates the area bordering North Korea; even as Korea is
riven into capitalist and communist societies, China's Koreans
register this dilemma as one internal to the society they live
in, in China's postindustrial Northeast. As this research makes
clear, once driven by state investment in industry, the Northeast
is now struggling to define its identity as a post-industrial
region; the ethnic Koreans there even more so. This monograph
provides a distinctive look at a group shaped by political
turmoil, economic transformation, and cultural struggle; the
study may offer an idea of what the future of the Korean
peninsula itself might be, disentangling the puzzling
contradictions and synergies between nationality, locality and
development in China.
This book offers a rare glimpse into China's Korean minority,
which dominates the area bordering North Korea; even as Korea is
riven into capitalist and communist societies, China's Koreans
register this dilemma as one internal to the society they live
in, in China's postindustrial Northeast. As this research makes
clear, once driven by state investment in industry, the Northeast
is now struggling to define its identity as a post-industrial
region; the ethnic Koreans there even more so. This monograph
provides a distinctive look at a group shaped by political
turmoil, economic transformation, and cultural struggle; the
study may offer an idea of what the future of the Korean
peninsula itself might be, disentangling the puzzling
contradictions and synergies between nationality, locality and
development in China.
