Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey

Contents

vii CONTENTS • • • • • • Preface and Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION Korea’s Turbulent Twentieth Century 1 CHAPTER ONE A New Century and the End of an Era 8 CHAPTER TWO Colonial State and Society 36 CHAPTER THREE Class and Nation in Colonial Korea: The 1920s 56 CHAPTER FOUR Colonial Modernity, Assimilation, and War: 1930–1945 76 CHAPTER FIVE Liberation, Civil War, and Division 100 CHAPTER SIX Political and Economic Development in South Korea 121 CHAPTER SEVEN Going It Alone: The DPRK 1953–Present 146 CHAPTER EIGHT Democratization in South Korea: 1987–2000 167 EPILOGUE Untying the Korean Knot 182 Notes 191 Bibliography 201 Index 211 ...