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China's Korean Minority

A Study in the Dissolution of Ethnic Identity

Author: Yeon Jung Yu  

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Until the early 90s, Chinese Koreans maintained their Korean culture, language, traditions, and lineage based on kinship relations. Contrary to many scholars' predictions that the growing interaction with South Koreans would help Korean ethnics develop a minority community in China while preserving their own language and culture, Yu's research reveals that a crisis of dissolution has developed among Chinese Koreans and that the Korean minority in China is assimilating to Chinese society ever more rapidly. This book focuses on how Chinese economic reforms and interaction with South Koreans have brought change to the Korean ethnic minority in China's northeast and helped to affirm the Korean ethnic minority's identity as Chinese Koreans. Social scientists or anyone interested in studies on China or East Asia, ethnic minority studies, cultural and linguistic preservation, migration, or political economy will find this study useful.

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Until the early 90s, Chinese Koreans maintained their Korean culture, language, traditions, and lineage based on kinship relations. Contrary to many scholars' predictions that the growing interaction with South Koreans would help Korean ethnics develop a minority community in China while preserving their own language and culture, Yu's research reveals that a crisis of dissolution has developed among Chinese Koreans and that the Korean minority in China is assimilating to Chinese society ever more rapidly. This book focuses on how Chinese economic reforms and interaction with South Koreans have brought change to the Korean ethnic minority in China's northeast and helped to affirm the Korean ethnic minority's identity as Chinese Koreans. Social scientists or anyone interested in studies on China or East Asia, ethnic minority studies, cultural and linguistic preservation, migration, or political economy will find this study useful.

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About the Author

Yeon Jung Yu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. Yu received an M.A. in East Asian Studies, the University of Southern California. Yu has had visiting scholarships at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and at the Academia Sinica, (Taiwan).

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Product Details

Publisher
VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
Published
6th October 2008
Format
Paperback
Pages
72
ISBN
9783639050578

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