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

important dimension of their history has been neglected: global capitalism and their situation as actors within it.'

caught up in the political struggles between Japan and Chinese national powers.

In an endless exchange of commodities and money, land becomes fictitious capital.

archival sources in Korea, China, and Japan

My approach intersects with Michel Foucault's theory of power, especially the analysis of power in social space.

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

In Manchuria, the relationship between Chinese and Koreans emerged as the crucial principle defining the boundary of the Chinese nation.

social relations of commodity production and exchange.

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