| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Ji-Yeon Yuh. Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America. (Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History.) New York: New York University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 283. $25.95.
This is one of the most compelling books I have read this year. It tells the story of "military brides": Korean women who married American soldiers and came to the United States to live at various times in the second half of the twentieth century. Ji-Yeon Yuh's account is alternately heart breaking and inspiring.	1
Yuh argues persuasively that Korean-American relations—indeed, Korea's national self-image—as well as the individual and collective self-images of Korean migrants to America (military brides included) are all framed by the quasi-colonial relationship between the two nations that has existed since the end of World War II. At the center of that relationship is the metaphor of camptown, the entertainment districts that surround U.S. military bases on the Korean peninsula. All Korean women who meet and marry American men are assumed, both by Koreans and by most non-Korean Americans, to be ex-prostitutes who bear a stigma of pollution. Other Koreans and Korean Americans may envy such women as having achieved prosperity and international upward mobility; they may take advantage of the women's knowledge and resources in their own struggles to make a place for themselves in the United States; but seldom, in Yuh's account, do they let these women have a place within the Korean diaspora. The military brides are written off by their families and by Korean Americans as people who gave up their Korean identity at marriage.	. . .

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