1st Edition

Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895–1920 Arirang People

By Hye Ok Park Copyright 2022
240 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Much attention has been paid to the Japanese deployment of Koreans in their war efforts during WWII. Much less attention, however, has been given to the subject prior to 1910. This book will: 1) present the evidence which reveals the presence of Koreans in the Japanese military during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905, as seen by an American novelist Jack London, before the formal annexation of... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Koreans in the Russian Far East and Manchuria

3. Koreans in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905

4. Korean Transnationals as Stateless People, 1906–1920

Conclusion

Biography

Hye Ok Park received a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and worked in libraries and eLearning operations in academia across the U.S. before retiring to pursue a Ph.D. in History, which was completed in 2019.