Co-authored by 2 writers: Michael Kim, Xue Xueji

Michael Kim is the Vice President and a professor of Korean History at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies, and the Deputy Director of Yonsei University Office of International Affairs. His majors are Korean modern and contemporary history, especially cultural history, everyday history, and migration history. He is the author of “Mass Dictatorship and Modernity”, and his recent theses include “The Han’gǔl Crisis and Language Standardization: Clashing Orthographic Identities and the Politics of Cultural Construction”, Journal of Korean Studies(Spring 2017), and “Re-Conceptualizing the Boundaries of Empire: The Imperial Politics of Chinese Labor Migration to Manchuria and Colonial Korea”, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies(2016).
Xue Xueji (許雪姬) is a researcher and director of Taiwan Research Institute at Academia Sinica. He has mainly studied Taiwan's military and family history, and overseas experiences of Taiwanese during the Japanese colonial period. His works include “淸代臺灣的綠營 The Green Standard Army in Taiwan”(1987), and “龍井林家的歷史 The Lin Family at Longjing”(2015), and “樓臺重起: 林本源家族與庭園歷史 The History of Lin-Ben Yuan Family and Its Garden”(2011).