This article investigates Korean farmers' emigration to Manchuria and its effects on dynamic ethnic relations among Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese as well as on the ethnic standing of Koreans. Before the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Chinese landown...
This article investigates Korean farmers' emigration to Manchuria and its effects on dynamic ethnic relations among Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese as well as on the ethnic standing of Koreans. Before the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Chinese landowners generally welcomed Korean farmers and the Chinese even sympathized with the newcomers. However, in the naked Japanese aggression into Manchuria, Koreans were perceived as the "lackeys of Japanese imperialism" and were persecuted by the Chinese. Consequently, there were changes in mutual perception and ethnic relations between the Chinese and Japanese, and that in turn significantly influenced both emigration to Manchuria and ethnic standing of Koreans.