Autorentext

Hyun-Gwi Park is Associate Professor at Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, Korea.

Klappentext

Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research, this is the first book in English to chart the contemporary social life of Koreans in the complex borderland region. Dispelling the commonly held notion that Koreans were completely removed from the region during the country's attempt to 'cleanse' its borders in 1937, Hyun Gwi Park reveals timely new insights into the historical and current experiences of Koreans living along the Eurasian frontier.

Inhalt

List of Maps, Figures and Tables Preface: Clearing the Ground Introduction: The Obscure Presence of Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia Chapter 1: The History of 'the Korian Question' and Border Making in the Russian Far East Chapter 2: Repatriating to the Russian Far East, Confronting the Transition Chapter 3: Living Soviet Socialism the Korean Way: Mobile Agriculture at the Border of Socialism Chapter 4: Greenhouse Society: Subsistence Economy and the House-Holding Chapter 5: Recalling History: Koreiskii Dom, Transnational Connections and Diaspora Politics, Epilogue, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Bibliography.