Korean National Identity Under Japanese Colonial Rule

Author : Michael Shin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134830640

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Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule by Michael Shin Pdf

Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces that shook and transformed the peninsula during the twentieth century, including foreign occupation, civil war, and division. This book examines the emergence of the nation as the hegemonic form of collective identity after the March First Movement of 1919, widely seen as one of the major turning points of modern Korean history. The analysis focuses on Yi Gwangsu (1892–1950), a pioneering novelist, newspaper editor, and leader of the nationalist movement, who was directly involved in many aspects of its emergence during the Japanese occupation period. Yi Gwangsu was one of the few intellectuals who not only wrote for almost the entirety of the colonial period but who also was centrally involved in many institutions related to the production of identity. By focusing on Yi Gwangsu the book provides a different kind of historical narrative linking the various fragments of the nation, puts forward a new understanding of the March First Movement and its role in the emergence of the nation, and demonstrates how central to the emergence of the nation were the development of the print industry, the rise of a modern readership, and the emergence of a capitalist market for print. This book shows how the March First Movement catalyzed the confluence of these factors, enabling the nation to emerge as the dominant form of collective identity.

Author : Hong Yung Lee,Yong-Chool Ha,Clark W. Sorensen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804491

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Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 by Hong Yung Lee,Yong-Chool Ha,Clark W. Sorensen Pdf

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.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Michael Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173334

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Colonial Modernity in Korea by Gi-Wook Shin,Michael Robinson Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805146

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Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925 by Michael Robinson Pdf

By studying the early splits within Korean nationalism, Michael Robinson shows that the issues faced by Korean nationalists during the Japanese colonial period were complex and enduring. In doing so, Robinson, in this classic text, provides a new context with which to analyze the difficult issues of political identity and national unity that remain central to contemporary Korean politics.

Author : Hyung Il Pai,Timothy R. Tangherlini
Publisher : Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036361635

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Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity by Hyung Il Pai,Timothy R. Tangherlini Pdf

Author : Hong Kal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136719325

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Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism by Hong Kal Pdf

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how such notions made the nation imaginable to the public in both the past and the present; how they represented a new modality of seeing for the state and contributed to the shaping of collective identities in colonial and postcolonial Korea. The author further examines how their different modes were associated with the change in governmentality in Korea. In addressing these questions, the book interprets the politics behind the culture of displays and shows both the continuity and the transformation of spectacles as a governing technology in twentieth-century Korea. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism is a significant contribution to a study of the politics of visual culture in colonial and postcolonial Korea. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Korean Studies, Culture and Heritage Studies and Asian Studies.

Author : Hyangjin Lee
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719060087

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Contemporary Korean Cinema by Hyangjin Lee Pdf

This comprehensive book defines the significance of film-making and film viewing in Korea. Covering the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45), and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s, Lee introduces the works of Korea's major directors, and analyzes the Korean film industry in terms of production, distribution, and reception.

Author : Christina Yi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231545365

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Colonizing Language by Christina Yi Pdf

With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender in 1945, Japan abruptly receded to a nation-state, establishing its present-day borders. Following Korea’s liberation, Korean was labeled the national language of the Korean people, and Japanese-language texts were purged from the Korean literary canon. At the same time, these texts were also excluded from the Japanese literary canon, which was reconfigured along national, rather than imperial, borders. In Colonizing Language, Christina Yi investigates how linguistic nationalism and national identity intersect in the formation of modern literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s, analyzing how key texts were produced, received, and circulated during the rise and fall of the Japanese empire. She considers a range of Japanese-language writings by Korean colonial subjects published in the 1930s and early 1940s and then traces how postwar reconstructions of ethnolinguistic nationality contributed to the creation of new literary canons in Japan and Korea, with a particular focus on writers from the Korean diasporic community in Japan. Drawing upon fiction, essays, film, literary criticism, and more, Yi challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories and the postcolonial present in East Asia. A Center for Korean Research Book

Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947689

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Primitive Selves by E. Taylor Atkins Pdf

This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In his analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost--including communal living and social solidarity--which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze--folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage--became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.

Author : Jun Uchida
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175109

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Brokers of Empire by Jun Uchida Pdf

"Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians—merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers—left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the state’s ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities in the twentieth century, these settlers and their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the public memory of Japan’s presence in Korea. Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, especially the first generation of “pioneers” between the 1910s and 1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among multiple parties—between the settler community and the Government-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, between colony and metropole—this study examines how these “brokers of empire” advanced their commercial and political interests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan."

Author : Andrew C. Nahm,Western Michigan University. Center for Korean Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Korea
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081196888

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Korea Under Japanese Colonial Rule by Andrew C. Nahm,Western Michigan University. Center for Korean Studies Pdf

Author : Kyong Ju Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134355280

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The Development of Modern South Korea by Kyong Ju Kim Pdf

The Development of Modern South Korea provides a comprehensive analysis of South Korean modernization by examining the dimensions of state formation, capitalist development and nationalism. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach this book highlights the most characteristic features of South Korean modernity in relation to its historical conditions, institution traditions and cultural values paying particular attention to Korean's pre-modern civilization.

Author : Man-gil Kang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004213746

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A History of Contemporary Korea by Man-gil Kang Pdf

Now in English, this important new contribution from a distinguished Korean historian on the history of twentieth-century Korea covers: first, the Japanese colonial period, including detailed accounts of the anti Japanese independence movements, followed by the liberation of Korea, the Korean War and political developments up to the late 1980s.

Author : Emma Campbell
Publisher : Firstforumpress
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Korea (South)
ISBN : 1626374201

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South Korea's New Nationalism by Emma Campbell Pdf

Campbell deftly weaves the narratives of her subjects with the wider theoretical literature on nationalism and identity.... A great read. --Andrew I. Yeo, Catholic University of America An important contribution to the literature on nationalism and contemporary Korean studies. --Nora Kim, University of Mary Washington Why have traditional views of national identity in South Korea¿views that for years drove a demand for reunification¿been challenged so dramatically in recent years? What explains the growing ambivalence and even antagonism of South Korean young people toward unification with North Korea? Emma Campbell addresses these related puzzles, exploring the emergence of a new kind of nationalism in South Korea and considering what this development means for the country¿s future. Emma Campbell is visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.

Author : Mark E. Caprio
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295990408

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Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Mark E. Caprio Pdf

From the late nineteenth century, Japan sought to incorporate the Korean Peninsula into its expanding empire. Japan took control of Korea in 1910 and ruled it until the end of World War II. During this colonial period, Japan advertised as a national goal the assimilation of Koreans into the Japanese state. It never achieved that goal. Mark Caprio here examines why Japan's assimilation efforts failed. Utilizing government documents, personal travel accounts, diaries, newspapers, and works of fiction, he uncovers plenty of evidence for the potential for assimilation but very few practical initiatives to implement the policy. Japan's early history of colonial rule included tactics used with peoples such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan that tended more toward obliterating those cultures than to incorporating the people as equal Japanese citizens. Following the annexation of Taiwan in 1895, Japanese policymakers turned to European imperialist models, especially those of France and England, in developing strengthening its plan for assimilation policies. But, although Japanese used rhetoric that embraced assimilation, Japanese people themselves, from the top levels of government down, considered Koreans inferior and gave them few political rights. Segregation was built into everyday life. Japanese maintained separate communities in Korea, children were schooled in two separate and unequal systems, there was relatively limited intermarriage, and prejudice was ingrained. Under these circumstances, many Koreans resisted assimilation. By not actively promoting Korean-Japanese integration on the ground, Japan's rhetoric of assimilation remained just that.