273About the Author
Jon K. Chang is an American who received his PhD in history specializing
in Rus sian/Soviet and Asian studies from the University of Manchester.
He has taught at the American University of Central Asia and the Univer-
sity of California, Los Angeles. Chang believes that fieldwork and oral his-
tory in situ can uncover many narratives, power structures, and alternative
viewpoints which remain undiscovered and untold. The case of the Soviet
Koreans is a prime example of a subaltern history unearthed via memory.
Presently he is an in de pen dent scholar conducting research on some of the
peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus. He is currently writing a history
of the Chinese in the Rus sian Far East.