Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 highlights the complex inter-action 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 new assessments of Japan's colonial legacy represent 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. Yong-Chool Ha is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Social Science at the University of Washington. Hong Yung Lee is the author of several texts, including Politics of Chinese Cultural Revolution. Clark W. Sorensen is chair of the Korean Studies Program at the University of Washington. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Keunsik Jung, Dong-No Kim, Keong-Il Kim, Ki-seok Kim, Kim Kwang-ok, Yong-Jick Kim, Seong-cheol Oh, and Myoung-Kyu Park.