Sovereignty Experiments (English, Alyssa M. Park)

About the Book

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 across four states…

ISBN: 9781501738364