Colonial Modernity in Korea

Edited by Gi-Wook Shin

Edited by Michael Robinson

    Preface
    Contributors

    Introduction: Rethinking Colonial Korea
    Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson

    Part I: Colonial Modernity and Hegemony

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

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

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

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

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

    6 Colonial Korea in Japan's Imperial Telecommunications Network
    Daaqing Yang

    Part II: Colonial Modernity and Identity

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

    8 Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the 'New Woman' in Pan Wanso's 'Mother Stake 1"
    Kyeong-Hee Choi

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

    10 National identity and the Creation of the Category 'Peasant' in Colonial Korea
    Joong-Seop Kim

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

    Epilogue: Exorcising Hegel's Ghosts: Toward a Pastnational Historiography of Korea
    Carter J. Eckert

    Reference Matter
    Notes
    Index

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Gi-Wook Shin is the director of Shorenstein APARC; the founding director of the Korean Studies Program; senior fellow at FSI; and associate professor of sociology at Stanford University.

Michael Robinson is Associate Professor of Korean History at Indiana University.