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Colonial Modernity in Korea
Gi-Wook (Ed) Shin
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Description for Colonial Modernity in Korea
Paperback. Editor(s): Shin, Gi-Wook; Robinson, Michael. Num Pages: 472 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674005945
SKU
V9780674005945
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About Gi-Wook (Ed) Shin
Gi-Wook Shin is Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; founding director of the Korean Studies Program; Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Michael Robinson is Associate Professor of Korean History at Indiana University. Soon Won Park is a lecturer in Korean studies at Keio University ... Read more
Reviews for Colonial Modernity in Korea
Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson have edited a book that brings together academics from a range of disciplines to present a comprehensive perspective of Korea’s colonial period from a more integrative and pluralist viewpoint… In taking on an alternative view of Korea’s colonial period, the book provides a valuable addition to the Korean historical literature. The rationale is well argued ... Read more