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Category: Colonial

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

Colonial/Journals/Korea/Korea-Japan

자료소개: Chōsen chihō gyōsei (朝鮮地方行政)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by sayaka / 2 Comments

I would like to quickly introduce one source from the colonial period, a journal called Chōsen chihō gyōsei, or Korean Local Administration. It was published mo...

Colonial/General/Historiography/Korea

Some Issues on Modern Education in Korea

Posted on November 9, 2011 by sayaka / 1 Comment

Education is always an important issue in history, and I regret that I have read works on the history of Korea’s modern education only sporadically. As I ...

Colonial/General/Korea/Korea-Japan

The Use of Collective Responsibility

Posted on September 19, 2010 by sayaka / 2 Comments

It is a famous fact that the Government-General in Taiwan adopted the baojia (保甲) system in 1898 in reaction to a series of attacks against the Japanese. It is ...

Colonial/Cultural/Gender/General/Korea/Korean

Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples

Posted on June 13, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

When I was preparing for my oral exams last semester, the professors who do not work on East Asia (I had a European historian and a Latin American historian in ...

Academia/Colonial/Conferences/English/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

AAS 2010 Blogging: Annexation Centennial

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

Final exams crash onto my desk tomorrow, but I’m as organized as I can be in advance, so I thought I’d do a little belated AAS blogging, especially ...

Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Korean

Non-Orientalizing Colonial Ethnography

Posted on April 3, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

I am re-visiting reprints of a journal called Korean Social Work (『朝鮮社会事業』), which colonial bureaucrats and social reformers in Korea published nearly every mon...

1945-1950/Colonial/General/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

Electricity, Infrastucture: “Reconstruction”

Posted on August 24, 2009 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

This image comes from a USIS publcity shot taken at Masan in the mid-  1950’s, detailing the work of electrical restoration undertaken prior to,  during, ...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Korea

Japanese Publications on Colonial Bureaucracy

Posted on August 13, 2009 by sayaka / 1 Comment

I would like to introduce two recent publications on colonial bureaucrats here. One is Okamoto Makiko, Shokuminchi kanryô no seijishi (岡本真希子『植民地官僚の政治史:朝鮮・台湾総督府と...

Colonial/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/North Korea

Dokdo is Korean for “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Apparently inspired by the success of other international publicity campaigns around disputed lands — Tibetan independence, Pakistani claims to Kashmir, t...

1945-1950/Colonial/Korea-Japan

Cholera: Disease, Nation, and Identity?

Posted on November 1, 2008 by John P. DiMoia / 8 Comments

I’ve been looking at disease patterns in the early stages of the USAMGIK occupation, focusing on the cholera outbreak of spring and summer 1946, covering ...

1945-1950/Colonial/Film/General/Korean War/US-Korea

BAKS 2008

Posted on September 14, 2008 by John P. DiMoia / 5 Comments

     I just returned to SG this past weekend from BAKS (British Association Korean Studies) 2008, and wanted to post as the film panel in particular intersects ...

Colonial/Film/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Military/World

Modernization or Japanization? –The Movie “Homeless Angels” 1941

Posted on July 20, 2008 by sayaka / 0 Comment

I had a chance to watch a Korean movie from the colonial period, called “Homeless Angels (집없는 천사, 家なき天使),” at the Korean Film Archive (KFA) in Susek...

Colonial/English/Korea/Korea-Japan

School Strikes in Colonial Korea: 1937-1939

Posted on May 9, 2008 by sayaka / 2 Comments

I had a chance to look into two primary sources on ‘school strikes (同盟休校)’ (mostly in common schools) in the colonial period of Korea (the Kominka p...

Colonial/English/Korea/Korea-Japan

Martial Arts and the Korean Colonial Police in 1938

Posted on April 25, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

The relationship between Korean martial arts and Japanese martial arts is usually a touchy one. This is because, like the history of so many other things in mod...

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