Colonial Modernity in Korea

Name: Colonial Modernity in Korea
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ISBN: 9780674005945

ISBN-10: 0674005945

ISBN-13: 9780674005945

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gi-Wook Shin

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The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea's colonial period (1910-1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations among colonialism, modernity, and nationalism. By addressing such diverse subjects as the colonial legal system, radio, telecommunications, the rural economy, and industrialization and the formation of industrial labor, one group of essays analyzes how various aspects of modernity emerged in the colonial context and how they were mobilized by the Japanese for colonial domination, with often…

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication date: 8/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface


Contributors


Introduction: Rethinking Colonial Korea




Colonial Modernity and Hegemony



Modernity, Legality, and Power in Korea Under Japanese Rule




Broadcasting, Cultural Hegemony, and Colonial Modernity in Korea, 1924-1945




Colonial Corporatism: The Rural Revitalization Campaign, 1932-1940




The Limits of Cultural Rule: Internationalism and identity in Japanese Responses to Korean Rice




Colonial Industrial Growth and the Emergence of the Korean Working Class




Colonial Korea in Japan's Imperial Telecommunications Network




Colonial Modernity and Identity



The Price of Legitimacy: Women and the Kunuhoe Movement, 1927-1931




Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the 'New Woman' in Pan Wanso's 'Mother Stake 1"




Interior Landscapes: Yi Kwangsu's The Heartless and the Origins of Modern Literature




National identity and the Creation of the Category 'Peasant' in Colonial Korea




Minjok as a Modern and Democratic Construct: sin Ch'aeho's Historiography



Epilogue: Exorcising Hegel's Ghosts: Toward a Pastnational Historiography of Korea



Reference Matter


Notes


Index