Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945

Contributors

Hong Yung LEE is currently professor of Political Science at the University of California–Berkeley. His research areas of interest include the domestic politics of China and Korea and political economy and international relations in East Asia. He authored Politics of Chinese Cultural Revolution (1978) and From Revolutionary Cadres Party Technocrats in Socialist China (1991) and edited Korean Options in a Changing International Order (1993); Political Authority and Economic Exchange in Korea (1993), and Prospects for Change in North Korea (1994). Yong Chool HA is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Social Science at the University of Washington. His interests in Korean studies include bureaucracy, democratization, civil society, and political economy. Dr. Ha has long been working on expanding Korean cases into comparative perspectives with a focus on the emergence of socially meaningful units under state-led industrialization cases, such as Japan, Prussia, and the Soviet Union. Also he has been teaching and writing on international politics of late industrialization. His articles, monographs, and books have been published in Korean, English, Japanese, and Russian languages. The most recent one is “Late Industrialization, the State and Social Change: The Emergence of Neofamilism in South Korea” (Comparative Politics, April, 2007). He is currently finishing a book on late industrialization and social consequences and preparing one on clashes of institutions. Since he led a trans-Siberian railroad research trip for the first time in the year 2000, Prof. Ha has been engaged in the future of the Northeast Asia regional order in terms of community building. Contributors Contributors 365 Clark W. SORENSEN is the director of the Center for Korea Studies at the University of Washington and co-editor of Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence (2011). He is editor -in-chief of The Journal of Korean Studies. Mark E. CAPRIO is professor in the College of Intercultural Communications at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include JapanKorean relations over the twentieth century, particularly the period of Japanese colonial occupation and the present North Korean nuclear issue. He has published a monograph titled Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (2009) and an edited volume titled Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society (2007). He has also written on post-liberation Korean repatriation from Japan and on contemporary North Korea-United States-Japan relations. Keunsik JUNG is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University. He was chair of both the Korean Critical Sociology Association and the Korean Social History Association. He has edited several books including: T’allaengjŏng kwa Han’guk minjujuŭi (The Post-Cold War and Korean democracy, 2010); and Singmin kwŏllyŏk kwa kŭndae chisik: Kyŏngsŏng Cheguk Taehak yŏn’gu (Colonial authority and modern knowledge: A Study of Keijō Imperial University, 2011). Dong-No KIM is a professor of sociology at Yonsei University. He has written many articles and books on modern Korean history including: Kŭndae wa singmin ŭi sŏgok (Prelude to modernity and colonialism, 2009); and “The Transformation of Familism in Modern Korean Society,” International Sociology 5 no.4 (1990). Keongil KIM is a professor of sociology at the Graduate School of Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies. He is concerned with issues on historical sociology, labor history, feminist history, Korean modernity, and East Asian solidarity. He is the author of several books including: Kundae ui gajok, kundae ui yosong (Modern family, modern women), Sŏul: Pureun-yeoksa, 2012; Yŏsŏng ŭi kŭndae, kŭndae ŭi yŏsŏng (Women’s modernity, modern women, 2004); Han’guk kŭndae nodongsa wa nodong undong (Modern Korean labor history and Contributors 366 the labor movement, 2004); Pioneers of Korean Studies (2004); Yi Chae-yu, na ŭi sidae na ŭi hyŏngmyŏng (Yi Chae-yu, my era my revolution, 2007); and Cheguk ŭi sidae wa tong Asia yŏndae (The Age of Empire and East Asia Era, 2011). Ki-seok KIM is a professor at Seoul National University. Dr. Kim serves as the chief executive for Educators without Borders and is the author of Kyokyuk yŏksa sahoehak (Historical Sociology of Education, 1999). Kwang-ok KIM is a professor of anthropology at Seoul National University. He is the author of Issues of Development in the Yellow Sea Region (1997); and “Rice Cuisine and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Korean Dietary Life...