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""A Nation Within is truly groundbreaking. The result of painstaking labor and close partnership with an 'insider researcher' who has direct links to the Chongryon community, the book provides an intimate history of the pro-North Korean Zainichi in Japan. Sayaka Chatani and her interlocutor KumHee Cho thereby illuminate contemporary Japan to be deeply 'postimperial' in the sense that it is still embedded in its imperialist dominion, precisely as shown through its treatment of the Zainichi. Their resilience in the face of systemic oppression offers a window into North Korean society's enduring stability despite geopolitical and economic headwinds."" - Suzy Kim, Rutgers University ""Combining ethnography, history, and conceptual boldness, this finely textured account of the Chongryon community of Koreans in postwar Japan culminates in an ambitious and reasoned claim for a 'postimperial' perspective, which questions received views of postwar Japanese history, of empire, of national, regional and global forces, from 1945 until today. A stunning work on every one of its many levels."" - Carol Gluck, Columbia University

""Combining ethnography, history, and conceptual boldness, this finely textured account of the Chongryon community of Koreans in postwar Japan culminates in an ambitious and reasoned claim for a 'postimperial' perspective, which questions received views of postwar Japanese history, of empire, of national, regional and global forces, from 1945 until today. A stunning work on every one of its many levels."" --Carol Gluck, Columbia University ""A Nation Within is truly groundbreaking. The result of painstaking labor and close partnership with an 'insider researcher' who has direct links to the Chongryon community, the book provides an intimate history of the pro-North Korean Zainichi in Japan. Sayaka Chatani and her interlocutor KumHee Cho thereby illuminate contemporary Japan to be deeply 'postimperial' in the sense that it is still embedded in its imperialist dominion, precisely as shown through its treatment of the Zainichi. Their resilience in the face of systemic oppression offers a window into North Korean society's enduring stability despite geopolitical and economic headwinds."" --Suzy Kim, Rutgers University

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Sayaka Chatani is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. She is author of Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies (2018).

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