ANS 302J Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Comfort Women, Imagined Community, Enclosure
Document Summary
Periods and stages of colonialism: military rule - to 1919, 19191 march 1 movement, cultural rule - 1919 - 1930s, cultural nationalism, pressure cooker metaphor, mobilization period - after 1937, high assimilation, learning japanese, lost names, military mobilization. Yoo kwan-soon: 1916: enrolled at ewha girls school, converted to christianity, slipped out of class to join the crowd at pagoda park, waved a korean flag and encourages crowd to join the fight for independence. Imprisoned for her actions: tortured and died at the age of 16 (1920, poster child for march 1st movement. Koreans: leadership lacked organization and discipline and a power ideology/platform to rally the people. Japanese: something had to be done - less repression, more cultural activity (appeasement of the masses) Cultural rule - 1920s: appeasement of the masses, permission to form organization permitted, new publication law: proliferation of publications, korean owned media (was largely manipulated however, educational opportunities, cultural nationalism.
