EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kuom, Comfort Women, Korea Independence Party
31 May 2016
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Quiz : - essay questions not formal essay. Quoting and examples paraphrasing : chapter, author. Colonial korea"s transformation from cultural rule through war mobilization (1930-45) The predicament of the colonial modern: modernity has brought new technologies, fashions, and commodities, and colonial oppression/the erasure of the korean culture. Modernity in korea also contained elements of potential liberation within its cultural matrix. Need to assert ethnic difference btw japanese and korean subjects. Urban and economic development created new occupations and avenues of mobility: Movement to cities, working in industrial settings, emigration to manchuria or the metropole. Expansion of education system literacy, new skills and widened consciousness. Women"s education opening of public sphere to women. New popular culture, including cinema and popular music. Argic: intro of fertilizer and modern farming tech. K"s participation in a new capitalist econ linked to j and its expanding empire.
