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This book offers a rare glimpse into China´s Korean minority, which dominates the area bordering North Korea; even as Korea is riven into capitalist and communist societies, China´s Koreans register this dilemma as one internal to the society they live in, in China´s postindustrial Northeast. As this research makes clear, once driven by state investment in industry, the Northeast is now struggling to define its identity as a post-industrial region; the ethnic Koreans there even more so. This monograph provides a distinctive look at a group shaped by political turmoil, economic transformation, and cultural struggle; the study may offer an idea of what the future of the Korean peninsula itself might be, disentangling the puzzling contradictions and synergies between nationality, locality and development in China.

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Preface
List of tables and figures
1. Introduction

2. Diaspora, national identity, and reciprocal prosperity

3. Communist nation building and territorialized ethnicization


4. Economic reforms, de-ethnicization, and the survival of identity
5. Developmentalism, nationalism, and the prosperity of China´s northeast
6. Conclusions

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Dr Jeongwon Bourdais Park holds a Ph.D. from the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K.). The author was a Visiting Professor at the Conservatoire National dés Arts et Métiers in France between September 2010 and June 2013, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lingnan University Hong Kong between August 2013 and June 2017. 

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