Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945

by Alyssa M. Park

Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan--through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies--competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501738364
• ISBN13: 9781501738364
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher