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Afterword: Transnational Asian Studies—Toward More Inclusive Theory and Practice
Based on the articles in this “Global Asias” forum, this essay proposes that in order to build a meaningful bridge between Asian studies and Asian American studies, we must first face what needs to be critically overcome in Asian studies itself: persistent white male domination of the field, on the one hand, and historical role that the United States has played in Asia, on the other. One possibility is to adopt a transnational Asian studies approach, which advocates bringing Asian studies and Asian American studies together while also envisioning radical interdisciplinarity across Asian studies and African American studies, Latino/a studies, and Asian American studies. The key to pursuing such an approach would be to create a teaching and research environment of inclusion and collaboration.
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The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Massacre of Koreans in 1923: Notes on Japan's Modern National Sovereignty
Ryang recounts of what happened when the earthquake occurred and explores why it was Koreans who came to be placed at the center of the Japanese citizen's rage, resulting in torture and massacre. Then, he focuses on Japan's modern sovereignty and its national substance: the constitutive unit of Japanese nation is conditioned upon the person being born Japanese.
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Japan and National Anthropology
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.
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Diaspora without homeland
More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today--the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.
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North Korea
We are told, time and again, that North Koreans are loyal to their leader, that they would do anything, even die for him, and that they are fiercely proud and nationalistic. But to an equal extent, we are told that they are oppressed, suffering, and ready to rise against the evil dictator. What do we know beyond or between these opposing assumptions? We are not well equipped with the conceptual tools that could lead us beyond the current securitization of our discourses on North Korea, while undercurrents of regarding North Koreans as less human continue in these discourses. This volume attempts to multiply the angles from which we can look at North Korea by reassessing the international environment in which it is placed, the process of production of its culture, and the historical paths it has followed. Due to the new approach the volume takes, reading these pages will be an eye-opening experience not only for experts, but also for lay readers and anyone interested in peace keeping in Korea, Northeast Asia, and beyond.
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Space and Time: The Experience Of The \Zainichi\, The Ethnic Korean Population of Japan
This article explores the intersection of individuals' personal lives and world historical events such as the aftermath of colonialism, dispersion from homeland, and diasporic resettlement through the life history of an elderly Korean couple living in Japan. This exercise captures the shifting relationship of Koreans in Japan both to their home country, and to Japan, the former colonial metropolis. Known as zainichi Koreans, members of this group trace their origins to colonial-era migrants from the Korean Peninsula to Japan. Now that almost a century has passed since the first arrivals, their status shifting from that of stateless people to that of permanent residents, the lives of zainichi Koreans are being reconfigured, including those that were highly politicized in the past. This article aims to update this situation.
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The Denationalized Have No Class: The Banishment of Japan's Korean Minority—A Polemic
Koreans in Japan have always had class stratification within them--during the colonial period, through the postwar period, and to this day. Focusing on class (including class consciousness and class differentiation), or more precisely, the absence thereof, a useful tool to think about Japan as a nation-state in which non-nationals are not deemed human.
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