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Contents Acknowledgements | ix List of Illustrations | xii Introduction: A Critique of “Colonial Modernity” Hong Yung LEE | 3 1  Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea: The Paradox of Colonial Control | 39 Yong chool HA 2 Politics of Communication and the Colonial Public Sphere in 1920s Korea | 76 Yong-Jick KIM 3 Expansion of Elementary Schooling under Colonialism: Top Down or Bottom Up? | 114 Seong-cheol OH and Ki-seok KIM 4 National Identity and Class Interest in the Peasant Movements of the Colonial Period | 140 Dong-No KIM 5  The 1920 Colonial Reforms and the June 10 (1926) Movement: A Korean Search for Ethnic Space | 173 Mark E. CAPRIO 6 Japanese Assimilation Policy and Thought Conversion in Colonial Korea | 206 Keongil KIM 7 “Colonial Modernity” and the Hegemony of the Body Politic in Leprosy Relief Work | 234 Keunsik JUNG 8  Colonial Body and Indigenous Soul: Religion as a Contested Terrain of Culture | 264 Kwang-Ok KIM 9 The Korean Family in Colonial Space—Caught between Modernization and Assimilation | 314 Clark W. SORENSEN Bibliography | 335 Contributors | 364 Index | 367 ...

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