Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

The word creation (sōsaku) quickly became the key word in the technocratic discourse of Manchuria (and of the empire later).

The principal historical argument of this book is that the dynamic between circulatory history and institutionalized transcendence becomes radically transformed under the conditions of the capitalism and the nation-state that it has itself fostered.

Even while struggling to free themselves from Chinese hegemony, Korean nationalists were faced by Japanese colonialism, which sought to depict Koreans as lesser versions of the Japanese and tried ultimately to assimilate them.

Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state established in northeast China (1932–1945), exemplified an all too transparent effort to build a nation-state from these East Asian circulations.