Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 by Alyssa M. Park (review)

Abstract

provoking contribution to the field and provides the academic community with a novel and stimulating text for further discussion. Through his research, we come to understand how “letter writing developed into the main discursive site in which major sociocultural change took place” (p. 29) in Chosŏn. His work is both accessible to the general reading public as well as the scholar and student of Korean studies, while also serving as a vital text that contributes towards global studies and critical enquiry into epistolary practices regardless of time, place, or culture.