Colonial rule and social change in Korea, 1910-1945 / edited by Hong Yung Lee, Yung Chool Ha, and Clark W. Sorensen. - 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations, charts

"A Center for Korea Studies publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a critique of colonial modernity / Hong Yung Lee -- Colonial rule and social change in Korea : the paradox of colonial control / Yong Chool Ha -- Politics of communication and the colonial public sphere in 1920s Korea / Yong-Jick Kim -- Expansion of elementary schooling under colonialism : top down or bottom up? / Seong-Cheol Oh and Ki-Seok Kim -- National identity and class interest in the peasant movements of the colonial period / Dong-No Ki -- The 1920 colonial reforms and the June 10 (1926) movement : a Korean search for ethnic space / Mark E. Caprio -- Japanese assimilation policy and thought conversion in colonial Korea / Keongil Kim -- Colonial modernity and the hegemony of the body politic in leprosy relief work / Keunsik Jung -- Colonial body and indigenous soul : religion as a contested terrain of culture / Kwang-Ok Kim -- The korean family in colonial space : caught between modernization and assimilation / Clark W. Sorensen.

9780295804491 (e-book)


Social change--History--Korea--20th century.
National characteristics, Korean.


Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
Korea--Social conditions--1910-1945.


Electronic books.

DS916.55 / .C65 2012eb

951.9/03