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The Japanese colonial legacy in Korea, 1910-1945 : A new perspective
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ISBN: 9781937385705 9781937385712 Year: 2015 Publisher: Portland MerwinAsia

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"The book reexamines Japan{u2019}s policies in Korea from 1910 to 1945. The authors contend that Japan{u2019}s policies were moderate considering the magnitude of the colonial endeavor and were proportional when compared to the imperialist practices of Western nations. Drawing on recent scholarship, this study effectively contributes to the growing field of historical revisionism in Korean colonial history. Historical remembrance in South Korea unabashedly portrays the colonial era in a wholly negative light; The Japanese colonial regime is presented as an authoritarian regime that exploited the innocent Korean people. In some cases, academic circles in Asia and America have adopted positions that mirror the Korean historical paradigm. Dr. Akita and Dr. Palmer challenge the pro-Korean nationalist narrative by using a plethora of archival documents written by the highest echelons of Japan{u2019}s leadership. These documents, written by men such as Yamagata Aritomo and Hara Kei, reveal the origins and reasonableness of Japanese colonial policies, especially when shown in light of Japan{u2019}s strong legalist tradition. A more nuanced view of Japan{u2019}s rule in Korea is achieved by juxtaposing it to the Europeans{u2019} record in Asia and Africa. Furthermore, this work highlights various ways that Japan{u2019}s colonial interlude contributed to South Korea{u2019}s postwar industrialization."--Provided by publisher.


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The Korean Buddhist Empire : A Transnational History (1910-1945)
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ISBN: 9781684175925 9780674987197 0674987195 Year: 2019 Publisher: Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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"Highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation of colonial Korean Buddhism in the early twentieth century. While Japanese Buddhism exerted the most influence, Korean Buddhism (and Japanese Buddhism itself) was deeply influenced by developments in China, Taiwan, and elsewhere, as well as by Christianity"--Provided by publisher.


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Absolute erotic, absolute grotesque : The living, dead, and undead in Japan's imperialism, 1895-1945
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ISBN: 9780822347613 9780822347408 Year: 2010 Publisher: Durham Duke University Press

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Under the Black Umbrella : Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
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ISBN: 0801470153 0801470161 0801472709 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ithaca : Baltimore, Md. : Cornell University Press, Project MUSE,

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In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umbrella" of Japanese colonial rule. Existing descriptions of the colonial period tend to focus on extremes: imperial repression and national resistance, Japanese subjugation and Korean suffering, Korean backwardness and Japanese progress. "Most people," Kang says, "have read or heard only the horror stories which, although true, tell only a small segment of colonial life." The varied accounts in Under the Black Umbrella reveal a truth that is both more ambiguous and more human-the small-scale, mundane realities of life in colonial Korea. Accessible and attractive narratives, linked by brief historical overviews, provide a large and fully textured view of Korea under Japanese rule. Looking past racial hatred and repression, Kang reveals small acts of resistance carried out by Koreans, as well as gestures of fairness by Japanese colonizers. Impressive for the history it recovers and preserves, Under the Black Umbrella is a candid, human account of a complicated time in a contested place.


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Imperial Genus : The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
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ISBN: 0520289595 0520964195 9780520964198 9780520289598 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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"Ímperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainly between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is both a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure."--Provided by publisher.

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