The displacement of borders among Russian Koreans in northeast Asia / Hyun Gwi Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Hyun Gwi, author.

Series:

Asian borderlands

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Koreans--Russia (Federation)--Russian Far East.

Koreans.

Borderlands--Russia (Federation)--Russian Far East.

Borderlands.

Russian Far East (Russia)--Ethnic relations.

Russian Far East (Russia).

Ethnic relations.

Russia (Federation)--Russian Far East.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Displacement and mobility 25

Encounters 32

'Wounded attachment' 34

Russian Koreans and Soviet disengagement from the Asia-Pacific frontier 37

Unity and diversity 40

Fieldwork and outline of chapters 43

1 The history of 'the Korean question' and border-making in the Russian Far East 47

An early crossing: the flight from hunger 50

The formation of a border and the beginning of regulation (1884-1904) 58

The Korean question and the 'yellow peril' 63

Internal diversification of Korean settlers and the anti-Japanese movement 65

Building Soviet socialism and cleansing the Soviet Far East 66

Memory in silence in the present 75

2 Repatriating to the Russian Far East, confronting the transition 81

Early repatriates: returnees from Central Asia in the 1950s 85

Newcomer Koreans in the early 1990s: 'organized' migration in chaos 91

From migrants to traders in the mid-1990s 97

Late newcomers and problems with documents 101

The notion of 'locality' for newcomer and old resident Koreans 106

3 Living Soviet socialism the Korean way: mobile agriculture at the border of socialism 115

Rice cultivation: socialist peasants in Soviet Central Asia 118

Work vnye ('outside') the system: gobonjil during Soviet times 123

Nomadic socialist peasants in the lacunae of Soviet socialism 125

Trading cultivators or cultivating traders: trading political status with economic wealth 128

One's own people in/outside the Soviet system 135

Living on the border of Soviet socialism 137

4 Greenhouse society: the subsistence economy and house-holding 139

The economic conditions for greenhouse cultivation 142

Greenhouse construction and the preparation of young plants indoors 152

The greenhouse as threshold 153

The greenhouse in gendered terms 158

The extended space of the house 161

Food: everyday meals and ceremonial banquets 164

The transformation of women in the continuity and extension of the house 171

Becoming persons 175

5 Recalling history: Koreiskii Dom, transnational connections, and diaspora politics 179

Koreiskii Dom as a stage for diasporic politics 182

Leadership change and its implications 185

Different visions for a Russian Korean collective identity 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

ISBN:

9789089649980

9089649980

OCLC:

1020033261