A Perspective Study on the Korean Immigration in Northeast China

Abstract

2022 marks the 70th anniversary of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region. This means that the history of Korean-Chinese who settled in the country without returning to their homeland after the defeat of Japanese imperialism has been more than half a century. It also means that historical research on Korean-Chinese history has also gone through a long period of time. Research on Korean-Chinese history began in the 1950s and 1960s after the founding of the People's Republic of China and has been actively developed since the 1980s. In particular, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the first generation of Korean-Chinese history researchers who were trained through a systematic degree curriculum produced the results of the study continuously. These studies range from each country's policy history toward the Korean- Chinese to economic history, including the formation of Korean-Chinese society, rice farming, land systems, and Japanese invasion history. Based on these research results, this paper attempted to grasp the intrinsic implications contained in it by presenting data that give a glimpse of China's perception of the Manchurian region, and also looked at the implications of the concept of 'dual nationality', which is used in different meanings in various cases, for each period. The tentative opinion thrown in this paper should be further specified through my research work in the future.