Park Identity, Policy, and Prosperity

Border Nationality of the Korean Diaspora and Regional Development in Northeast China
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-981-10-4849-4
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 193 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: China in Transformation

This book offers a rare glimpse into China's Korean minority, which dominates the area bordering North Korea; even as Korea is riven into capitalist and communist societies, China's Koreans register this dilemma as one internal to the society they live in, in China's postindustrial Northeast. As this research makes clear, once driven by state investment in industry, the Northeast is now struggling to define its identity as a post-industrial region; the ethnic Koreans there even more so. This monograph provides a distinctive look at a group shaped by political turmoil, economic transformation, and cultural struggle; the study may offer an idea of what the future of the Korean peninsula itself might be, disentangling the puzzling contradictions and synergies between nationality, locality and development in China.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Park, Jeongwon Bourdais

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2: Diaspora, national identity, and reciprocal prosperity.- 3: Communist Nation Building and Territorialized Ethnicization .- 4: Economic reforms, de-ethnicization, and the survival of identity.- 5: Developmentalism, nationalism, and the prosperity of China’s northeast.- 6: Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Jeongwon Bourdais Park holds a Ph.D. from the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K.). The author was a Visiting Professor at the Conservatoire National dés Arts et Métiers in France between September 2010 and June 2013, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lingnan University Hong Kong between August 2013 and June 2017.