Search Results for colonial Korea

...Kim Brandt 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Objects of Desire: Japanese Collectors and Colonial Korea Kim Brandt Japan is one of the few countries in the world where ceramics are widely ac- knowledgedasamajorartform...

... feminist function within the discursive environment of colonial Korea. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Rethinking Feminism in Colonial Korea: Kang Kyoˇngae and 1930s Socialist Women’s Literature Sunyoung Park In June 1932, a train was returning to Korea from...

...Sangmi Bae Abstract This article introduces the 1933 novel After the Doll’s House by Ch’ae Mansik as an example of how revolutionary messages were presented through melodramatic narratives in colonial Korean proletarian literature. Between 1928 and 1930, several members of the Korea Artista Proleta...

... 12 – 13 : 144 – 45 . Park Soon-Won . 1999 . “Colonial Industrial Growth and the Emergence of the Korean Working Class .” In Colonial Modernity in Korea , edited by Shin Gi-Wook Robinson Michael , 128 – 60 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center . Robinson...

...Jiyoung Suh This article examines the presence of Korean housemaids who worked for Japanese settlers in colonial Korea, 1910–45, and its connection to the urban landscape in the colony. It provides a historical investigation of the Korean housemaids who emerged among female workers in the urban...

...Derek J. Kramer Abstract This article examines how Anglo‐American evangelicals in colonial Korea employed racialized understandings of the environment to justify a culture of recreation and health. In the metropole and periphery, missionary researchers studying climate, geography, and public health...

... that may contribute to current theorizations of affect, commodification, and emancipatory movements. While surrealism had only a limited following in colonial Korea, it is exceptional in the history of Korean modernism in two respects—first, it boasted its own journal, the short-lived Samsa munhak 三...

...Ou-Byung Chae This article examines the genealogy of postcolonial state culture in South Korea in the context of the changing imperial order in East Asia. First, we reveal an uneasy, uncomfortable, and antagonistically complicit relationship between colonial culture, anticolonial culture...

...Song Youn-ok Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Japanese Colonial Rule and StatelManaged Prostitution: Korea’s Licensed Prostitutes Song Youn-ok Introduction Not long after Liberation, a Korean scholar reflected upon Japan’s colonial...

...Gyewon Kim This essay examines the interlayered relations between photography, archive, and science in imperial Japan and postcolonial Korea. It specifically takes its cue from two archival contexts: the archive made by Uchida Keitarô, a Japanese ichthyologist who surveyed in colonial Korea during...

...” of sorts. They perceived Russia as 1) a European country that in many ways looked most similar to Asia, and particularly Korea; 2) a mighty modern nation-state that simultaneously seemed to be hopelessly backward, even in comparison to colonial Korea; and 3) a country with a racially white population...

... Hachigatsu no hate ( The End of August , 2004), a family saga written by a female author of Korean descent, the article explores how the novel emerged from, participates in, and critically positions itself with respect to the ongoing ideological battles over war histor(iograph)y. Set mostly in colonial Korea...

...Helen J. S. Lee During wartime Japan (late 1930s – 1945), the Japanese women in colonial Korea were pounded by ideological injunctions and practical imperatives demanding better service to the empire. This article explores the negotiations and struggles of Asano Shigeko (1922 – 42), a Keijō-born...

...Helen J. S. Lee This article uses the comic poetic genre senryu as a source through which to explore the dynamics of lived experience of working-class Japanese immigrants to Korea. Challenging the dominant paradigm by which we view colonial reality, as a neatly divided portrait of colonial society...

... it (the colonial chemist Ri Sŭnggi, scouted by North Korea in 1950). The Vinalon Factory near Hamhŭng City—a factory originally built by a Japanese chemical company and a city rebuilt with the assistance of East Germany—also became a national emblem of its own, as a factory that arose solely from the toil...

... the Chosŏn dynasty, Korea had its own family registry system also called hojŏk 戸籍, but it did not carry the same legal function of verifying personal status, nor did the household head have the same kind of legal prerogatives over family members as he did under the colonial system. For more information...

... is an assistant professor of Korean/East Asian history and an affiliate member of the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He has published several articles on everyday life in colonial Korea and is currently embarking...

... binary in south Korea), and Cold War racial hierarchies. Linking the trajectory of Ch'oe's work from the early 1960s to the early 1970s to late-colonial-period discourse on imperialization and immediate postliberation collaboration confessionals, this article examines the reworking of pan-Asianism...

... that regularly found their way onto the pages of popular colonial journals such as Chsen oyobi Mansh (Korea and Manchuria).29 In many of the fifty caricatures published from this text, Usuda and Torigoe employed the term yobo as an essentialized adjec...

... of Filial Piety), fourth century B.C. Modern Korea has undergone several iterations of what Raymond Williams would call “change from the outside, the big movements”: forced entry into modernity via Japanese colonialism (1910 – 45); a civil war...