Table of Contents:
  • Modernity, legality, and power in Korea under Japanese rule / Chulwoo Lee
  • Broadcasting, cultural hegemony, and colonial modernity in Korea, 1924-1945 / Michael Robinson
  • Colonial corporatism: the rural revitalization campaign, 1932-1940 / Gi-Wook Shin, Do-Hyun Han
  • The limits of cultural rule: internationalism and identity in Japanese responses to Korean rice / Michael A. Schneider
  • Colonial industrial growth and the emergence of the Korean working class / Soon-Won Park
  • Colonial Korea in Japan's Imperial Telecommunications Network / Daqing Yang
  • The price of legitimacy: women and the Kŭnuhoe Movement, 1927-1931 / Kenneth M. Wells
  • Neither colonial nor national: the making of the "new woman" in Pak Wansŏ's "Mother's Stake 1" / Kyeong-Hee Choi
  • Interior landscapes: Yi Kwangsu's the Heartless and the origins of modern literature / Michael D. Shin
  • National identity and the creation of the category "peasant" in colonial Korea / Clark Sorenson
  • In search of human rights: the Paekchŏng movement in colonial Korea / Joong-Seop Kim
  • Minjok as a modern and democratic construct: Sin Ch'aeho's historiography / Henry H. Em
  • Epilogue: exorcising Hegel's ghosts: toward a postnationalist historiography of Korea / Carter J. Eckert.