Making and Faking Kinship : : Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea /

Making and Faking Kinship : : Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea / / Caren Freeman.

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In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Freeman, Caren,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2017
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 9 halftones, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Language and Translations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Migrant Brides and the Pact of Gender, Kinship, Nation
  • 1. Chosŏnjok Maidens and Farmer Bachelors
  • 2. Brides and Brokers under Suspicion
  • 3. Gender Logics in Conflict
  • Part II. Migrant Workers, Counterfeit Kinship, and Split Families
  • 4. Faking Kinship
  • 5. Flexible Families, Fragile Marriages
  • 6. A Failed National Experiment?
  • References
  • Index

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