Forbidden Homeland: Divided Belonging on the China-Korea Border

What is it about?

The oral history based ethnography examines the narratives of Korean Chinese communist party members' belonging to socialism and capitalism, China and two Koreas-- in the wake of "the Korean Wind" the massive and persistent Korean Chinese transnational migration from China to South Korea and the related remittance development in the borderland of Yanbian, the Korean Chinese Autonomous Prefecture.

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Why is it important?

This research is to rethink the forgotten or unspeakable cold war fear and trauma in the midst of Chinese economic development and growing prosperity through the lens of ethnic minority living on the borderland between China and Korea.