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

Furthermore, as seen within the larger framework of circulatory histories, when the imperative to compete for survival in the modern world spread to other societies, several Asian societies with dominant traditions of dialogical transcendence sought to confessionalize their religious traditions for national mobilization and exclusivity.

While the period of this study covers the last hundred years or so, I range back in time to better understand these responses in our present moment that is characterized by three global changes: (1) the rise of non-Western powers; (2) the loss of authoritative sources of transcendence (e.g., Marxism or religion); and (3) the looming crisis of plane

After Kim Il-sung’s statement, the General Association of Korean Residents started a mass repatriation campaign in the guise of humanitarianism. The following year, 1959, the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Korean Red Cross Society secretly negotiated a “Return Agreement” in Calcutta. Four months later, the first shipload of returnees left the J

Benedict Anderson has popularized Walter Benjamin’s conception of ‘empty, homogeneous time’ as the temporality of nations operating in a globally unified time-space (at least for nationalists and nation-makers). As such, it alerted attention to alternative conceptions of temporality.