Colonial Modernity in Korea / Gi-Wook Shin, Michael Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shin, Gi-Wook, editor.

Robinson, Michael (Translator), editor.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 184.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 184

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Nationalism--Korea--History.

Nationalism.

Korea.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1999.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 unexpected results. A second group examines the development of various forms of identity from nation to gender to class, particularly how aspects of colonial modernity facilitated their formation through negotiation, contestation, and redefinition.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson

Rethinking Colonial Korea / Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson

Modernity, Legality, and Power in Korea Under Japanese Rule / Chulwoo Lee

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

Colonial Corporatism: The Rural Revitalization Campaign, 1932-1940 / Gi-Wook Shin and Do-Hyun Han

The Limits of Cultural Rule: Internationalism and Identity in Japanese Responses to Korean Rice / Michael A. Schneider

Colonial Industrial Growth and the Emergence of the Korean Working Class / Soon-Won Park

Colonial Korea in Japan's Imperial Telecommunications Network / Daqing Yang

The Price of Legitimacy: Women and the Kŭnuhoe Movement, 1927-1931 / Kenneth M. Wells

Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the "New Woman" in Pak Wansŏ's "Motherls Stake 1" / Kyeong-Hee Choi

Interior Landscapes: Yi Kwangsu's "The Heartless" and the Origins of Modern Literature / Michael D. Shin

National Identity and the Creation of the Category "Peasant" in Colonial Korea / Clark Sorensen

In Search of Human Rights : The Paekchŏng Movement in Colonial Korea / Joong-Seop Kim

Minjok as a Modern and Democratic Construct: Sin Ch'aeho's Historiography / Henry H. Em

Exorcising Hegel's Ghosts: Toward a Postnationalist Historiography of Korea / Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson

Notes / Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson

Index / Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Colonial Modernity in Korea,

ISBN:

9781684173334

9780674142558

OCLC:

679959569

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173334 DOI

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