Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
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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 social refers to the associations among "free" individuals that constitute civil society, which the colonized must learn from the colonizer in order to be modern.
Hyun Ok Park • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Under Zhang's rule, the three provinces illicitly kept a large proportion of their revenues for their own use; by the early 192os, they had stopped remitting any revenue to the Beijing government.
Hyun Ok Park • 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 social is therefore inherently unstable.
Hyun Ok Park • 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 study of Manchurian history among a radical group of South Korean historians served as much a critique of the South Korean regime as an endorsement of North Korea.6
Hyun Ok Park • 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 national and colonial powers had encouraged peasant migration from North China and Korea, respectively.
Hyun Ok Park • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Although it continuously called for the eviction of Koreans, it concomitantly implemented policies that allowed Koreans to work as short-term tenants and agricultural laborers.
Hyun Ok Park • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Capitalism, this book shows, was the primary determinant of social relations in Manchuria.