Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 (Center For Korea Studies Publications) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295806621 ISBN 13: 9780295806624

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2015

Synopsis

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space within the colonial system to show agency. Topics covered range from economic development and national identity to education and family; from peasant uprisings and thought conversion to a comparison of missionary and colonial leprosariums. These various new assessments of Japan's colonial legacy may open up new and illuminating approaches to historical memory that will resonate not just in Korean studies, but in colonial and postcolonial studies in general, and will have implications for the future of regional politics in East Asia.

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About the Authors

Yong Chool-Ha is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Social Science at the University of Washington. He is the coauthor of Russia’s Choice at the Crossroads (in Korean) (Seoul National University Press, 2006) and Global Standards and Identity in Korean Society (in Korean) (Seoul National University, 2006); editor of The International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea (Center for Korea Studies Publications, University of Washington, 2019); and coeditor of Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 (Center for Korea Studies Publications, University of Washington, 2013).

Clark W. Sorensen is professor of international studies and anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where he is also director of the Center for Korea Studies. He is the author of Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization (University of Washington Press, 1988) and coeditor of Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy and Cultural Influence (Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295806621
• ISBN 13: 9780295806624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Lee Hong Yung, Ha Yong-Chool, Sorensen Clark W.