1st Edition

Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule Yi Gwangsu and the March First Movement of 1919

By Michael Shin Copyright 2018
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces that shook and transformed the peninsula during the twentieth century, including foreign occupation, civil war, and division. This book examines the emergence of the nation as the hegemonic form of collective identity after the March First Movement of 1919, widely seen as one of the major turning points of modern Korean... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I:

Chapter 1. Pyeongan Province

Chapter 2. Print Capitalism

Chapter 3. Modern Literature

Chapter 4. The Cultural Policy

Chapter 5. Reconstruction and Culturalism

Chapter 6. National Literature and Melodrama

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Michael D. Shin is a Lecturer in Korean Studies and a Fellow of Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, UK.