Sovereignty Experiments

M. Park Alyssa

Description

Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan-through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies-competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Korea
• History of Asia
• History of Europe
• Migration
• Corée

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501738371
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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SOVEREIGNTY EXPERIMENTS

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

TheStudiesoftheWeatherheadEastAsianInstituteofColumbiaUniversitywere inaugurated in 1962 to bring to a wider public the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia.

SOVEREIGNTY EXPERIMENTS KoreanMigrantsandtheBuildingof Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

AlyssaM.Park

ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2019 by Cornell University

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a subvention from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa, which assisted in the publication of this book.

Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orparts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Firstpublished2019byCornellUniversityPress PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Park, Alyssa M., author. Title: Sovereignty experiments : Korean migrants and the building of borders in northeast Asia, 1860–1945 / Alyssa M. Park. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018060436 (print) | LCCN 2019001070 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501738371 (ebook pdf) | ISBN 9781501738388 (ebook epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501738364 (hardcover ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Koreans—East Asia—History. | Koreans—Russia (Federation)— Russian Far East—History. | Korea—Emigration and immigration— History. | East Asia—Emigration and immigration—History. | Russian Far East (Russia)—Emigration and immigration—History. | Borderlands—East Asia—History. | Borderlands—Korea—History. | Borderlands—Russia (Federation)—Russian Far East—History. Classification: LCC DS904.7 (ebook) | LCC DS904.7 .P37 2019 (print) | DDC 305.8957/0509041—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060436

Cover photograph: Semenovskii market, Vladivostok, 1918–22. Courtesy of the Arsen’ev State Museum of the Primorskii region.

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Contents

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 List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments  List of Abbreviations  Note on Places and Terms

 Introduction

ACROSS THE TUMEN VALLEY 1.  Borderland and Prohibited Zone 2. People and Place: Jurisdiction and Borders, 1860–1888 3. oCer:BordtedntesvoSieretluMelpiltMuleiptign,es Citizenships in Manchuria 4. :uSjbceloBdrreizationaCivilytellIilag,nsdan,tsieAl in the Russian Far East

IIPar t  ACROSS THE TUMEN NORTH BANK: IN RUSSIA 5. Transforming Ussuri: Migration and Settlement 6. Transnational World of the Korean Settlement 7. Making Them One of Us Epilogue: Denouement of Borders

Glossary  Note on Sources  Selected Bibliography  Index

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Illustrations

Maps 1.  Northeast Asia 2.  Tumen valley 3.  Choso˘nQing border region 4.  Subjecthood status of Koreans in South Ussuri, 1906–7 5.  Settlements in South Ussuri by ethnic designation, late nineteenth century

Figures 1.  Korean gold miners in Lena mining district 2.  Market on wharf of Vladivostok 3.  Semenovskii market 4.  Central location at the corner of Svetlanskii and Kitaiskii Streets 5.  Boats docked in Amur Bay 6.  Classroom in an Orthodox Christian churchschool

Tables 1.  Population of South Ussuri by ethnic designation 2a. DemographicsofuoSUhtrussc:intousiryde (settlements) vs. cities 2b. :rcentageeDSofocshiapgrmoepybirussUhtu countryside(settlements) 3.  Number of workers in gold and platinum mines in the Russian Far East 4.  Population of Koreans in Vladivostokokrugbyraion, 1929

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