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 exclusion of Koreans in the 1920S pledged to reverse a Chinese policy that had been in place since the mid-nineteenth century, one that encouraged Koreans to become naturalized as Chinese nationals.

Capitalism, this book shows, was the primary determinant of social relations in Manchuria.

nation formation rather than nation,

Instability of social relations, in turn, means the indeterminability of the nation whose imaginary ideas are actualized in the social process.

the common perception that Zhang Zuolin based his power on a feudalistic warlord clique obscures his Janus-faced interactions with Japan and Chinese merchants, through which he pursued his contradictory territorial and capitalist desires.

rethinking of the origins of the North Korean revolution and ultimately the origins of the current nationalism of the North Korean state.

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.

Contracts between Chinese and Japanese (Korean) subjects became the cornerstone of Chinese nation formation.

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.