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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
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The Universalizing Winds of Civilization as mentioned in this paper Decentering the Middle Kingdom and Realigning the East 3: Engaging a Civilizing Japan 4: Spirit, History, and Legitimacy 5: Narrating the Ethnic Nation 6: Peninsular Boundaries 7: Beyond the Peninsula EpilogueAbstract:
Introduction: A Monumental Story 1: The Universalizing Winds of Civilization 2: Decentering the Middle Kingdom and Realigning the East 3: Engaging a Civilizing Japan 4: Spirit, History, and Legitimacy 5: Narrating the Ethnic Nation 6: Peninsular Boundaries 7: Beyond the Peninsula Epilogueread more
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Ethnic return migration and hierarchical nationhood
Dong-Hoon Seol,John D. Skrentny +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the South Korean policy and citizen attitudes regarding Joseonjok, or ethnic Korean Chinese citizens moving to South Korea, and showed how Korea's hierarchical nationhood is shaped by economic and geopolitical goals, and described analogous cases in Asia and Europe.
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Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
TL;DR: Critical Han Studies as mentioned in this paper is a collection of trenchant, penetrating essays interrogating what it means to be "Han" in China, both historically and today, both by examining the social construction of hierarchy and in-group favoritism.
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Defining Nations in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Return Migration Policy1
TL;DR: In this paper, a regional comparison of East Asian and European ethnic return migration policy offers important new perspectives on nationhood, nondiscrimination norms, and trans-nationality, and they find that despite international non-discrimination norms, preferential ethnic return policy is common in both regions.
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The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the historical logics of global modernity and the crisis of transcendence in the Sinosphere, and the traffic between secularism and transcendence, and regions of circulation and networks of sustainability in Asia.
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Zainichi (Koreans in Japan): Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity
TL;DR: The authors traces the origins and transformations of a people, the Zainichi, migrants from the Korean peninsula to Japan and their descendants, using a wide range of arguments and evidence (historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural).