Korean Residents Associations in Jiandao and the Consular Police -Koreans in Manchuria and the Japanese Colonial Empire

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  • 間島における朝鮮人民会と領事館警察 : 在満朝鮮人と植民地帝国日本
  • カントウ ニ オケル チョウセン ジンミンカイ ト リョウジカン ケイサツ : ザイマンチョウセンジン ト ショクミンチ テイコク ニホン

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Abstract

In reaction to the Jiandao Expedition (1920-21), the Japanese Consulate-General in Jiandao promoted the reorganization of Korean Residents Associations. Those Koreans organized into Residents Associations were looking to discover existential meaning by shoring up the foundations of livelihood for those whose lives as immigrants were rather precarious. When this desire came to be a trend within the entire Korean community in Manchuria, the empire had to respond to it. This local Korean 'autonomy' used by the consular police as a tool for the exercise of extraterritoriality, however, was later compelled to merge with the notion of 'racial harmony' as touted by Manchukuo Concordia Society at a time when that 'autonomy' came to be seen as a hindrance to local administration in Manchukuo. This article considered the matter of overly narrow paths to colonial modernity. Within the Korean Residents Associations, the notion of becoming a 'pro-Japan faction' was reset to mean working for the protection and improvement of livelihood for the Korean 'people' (minzoku), not committing acts of betrayal and opposition to it. That is to say, it was also possible for Koreans in Manchuria, even while forced under the protection of consular police as imperial subjects and conforming to the racism of the Japanese colonial empire, to possess subjective agency in their own lives. The actual daily life of the Manchuria-resident Korean, when recognized as something overlaid with the national policy of the empire, had relief initiated on its behalf.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 106 169-204, 2015-04-30

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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