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Book Review

Asia

Hyun Ok Park. Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 314. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.
After decades of neglect, the modern history of Korea is now enjoying a wave of popularity in the Western academy. Korea has often been seen in scholarly terms as merely an adjunct to China and Japan, and it is refreshing to read work that places Koreans and their experience at center stage. Hyun Ok Park's book is a powerful and innovative study that gives us significant insights into the role of Koreans in pre-1945 Manchuria. It is grounded in an impressive range of archival sources in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, which serve to provide a rich array of empirical evidence. Overall, it provides a detailed and valuable account of the nature of the Korean peasantry in Manchuria from the 1920s to the 1940s, a topic which up to now has not been extensively treated in English.	1
Park suggests that, up to now, research on the Japanese client state of Manchukuo has remained too strongly bounded by the idea of the nation to capture certain important elements of the relationship between ethnic groups in the region, and argues instead that "capitalism ... was the primary determinant of social relations in Manchuria" (p. xi). She makes a powerful argument that the Japanese imperial project bound its Korean subjects in Manchuria to it by encouraging them to invest in land and property and thereby become indebted to agencies of the Japanese Empire. She also shows that this alienated them from the majority Han Chinese population of the area, who were not given such access.	. . .

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