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Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study written in English about Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial expositions, and sanitation campaigns, Todd A. Henry offers a transnational account that treats the city’s public spaces as \"contact zones,\" showing how residents negotiated pressures to become loyal, industrious, and hygienic subjects of the Japanese empire. Unlike previous, top-down analyses, this ethnographic history investigates modalities of Japanese rule as experienced from below. Although the colonial state set ambitious goals for the integration of Koreans, Japanese settler elites and lower-class expatriates shaped the speed and direction of assimilation by bending government initiatives to their own interests and identities. Meanwhile, Korean men and women of different classes and generations rearticulated the terms and degree of their incorporation into a multiethnic polity. Assimilating Seoul captures these fascinating responses to an empire that used the lure of empowerment to disguise the reality of alienation.

In a socialist society, the state is a political organization led by the advanced working class (by means of the vanguard of the communist party), based on the alliance of workers and peasants, which unites broadly all classes and strata supporting socialism, and also an organ of state power organizing and administrating economic, political, cultural, social and military affairs. [...]in the perspective of Marxism, the dictatorship of the proletariat in the broad sense is that the proletariat, after ascending to power, implements the state system and political system of people's democratic dictatorship, including the democracy for the working class and the majority of the people and the dictatorship towards the enemy class and power as well as all sorts of criminals opposing the people's regime; while the dictatorship of the proletariat in the narrow sense refers to the latter only. [...]the ethnic policies of socialist China are in general equal, civilized and effective, reflecting the character of inheritance of diverse cultures and unity as well as solidarity of the Chinese nation. In the sense of having the unlimited responsibility of thoroughly serving the people, the communist party and its government belong to \"unlimited government\" (a phrase used by Wang Qishan), for the party and state will take good care of everything (important or trivial) concerning the interests of the masses by means of various mechanisms and methods. [...]the function of a socialist country must be very strong, the number of institutions and staffs should be comparatively small, i.e., there should be a \"small and strong government,\" while the functions in fields of economic, political, cultural, social and national defense construction and administration should be relatively strong.

According to the literature, in my paper titled \"On the Socialist Market Economy\" published in March 1979, I pioneered the notion of \"socialist market economy\" and argued why China must implement the market economy system. Since China's socialist system cannot go beyond the historical process of the great development of commodity economy, and since China must implement the commodity system, the law of value, as the basic law of commodity production (Engels) will not quit the historical stage, and the \"invisible hand\" will also act as the coordinator of production, exchange, distribution, and consumption. The law of value plays a role through market, supply and demand, price and so on. [...]the regulatory role of the market mechanism cannot be artificially cancelled and abolished.

The formative experiences that led me to Marxist political economy were seeing extreme inequality and deprivation around me when growing up in different parts of India, and having easy access to all major Marxist classics at home because my father, an engineer, was interested in Marxism, as were so many of his generation who experienced the Great Depression and the War in their youth. [...]I got the basic points regarding property concentration, class exploitation and class ideology. [...]the state was now spending budgetary resources freely on rural development and on building up an industrial base, and this directly provided employment while also expanding the internal market for basic necessities like food and clothing. The latter represented return on money-capital, but the viability of putting money instead into productive investment in agriculture did not depend solely on the return to such investment exceeding usurious interest rates: the barrier of absolute ground rent also had to be overcome.

This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the exclusion of migrants, welfare claimants, women, children and others.