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Book SynopsisEducation, the production of knowledge, identity formation, and ideological hegemony are inextricably linked in early modern and modern Korea. This study examines the production and consumption of knowledge by a multitude of actors and across languages, texts, and disciplines to analyze the formulation, contestation, and negotiation of knowledge. The production and dissemination of knowledge become sites for contestation and struggle—sometimes overlapping, at other times competing—resulting in a shift from a focus on state power and its control over knowledge and discourse to an analysis of local processes of knowledge production and the roles local actors play in them. Contributors are Daniel Pieper, W. Scott Wells, Yong-Jin Hahn, Furukawa Noriko, Lim Sang Seok, Kokubu Mari, Mark Caprio, Deborah Solomon, and Yoonmi Lee.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Power and State Formation in Korea, 1875–1945 Andrew Hall and Leighanne Yuh Part 1: Education and Language Issues in Late Chosŏn 1 Linguistic Modernity, Education, and Nationalizing the Vernacular in Pre-colonial Korea: Divergences between Western Missionary and Indigenous Discourses Daniel Pieper 2 Legitimizing Literary Sinitic in Korea’s Pre-colonial Classroom: Yŏ Kyuhyŏng and the Publication of Hanmunhak kyogwasŏ W. Scott Wells 3 Late Nineteenth-Century Modern Education in Korea: The State, Ideology, and Moral Education Leighanne Yuh 4 Official Foreign Language Schools in Korea, 1894–1906 Yong-Jin Hahn Part 2: Japanese Colonial Education: Plans, Schools, and Textbooks 5 Japan’s Education Policies in Korea in the 1910s: “Thankful and Obedient” Andrew Hall 6 The Construction of Elementary Education in Early Colonial Korea: Non-compulsory Education and Japan’s Dissemination of Schools Furukawa Noriko 7 Korean Language Textbooks, 1895–1932: Mixed Script, Hanmun, and Colonization Lim Sang-Seok 8 History Education in Colonial-Era Korea: The Rise and Fall of Chōsen Jireki as Local History Kokubu Mari Part 3: Korean Responses to Colonial Rule 9 Korean Reactions to Japanese Education Policy under Cultural Rule, 1920–1931 Mark E. Caprio 10 “The Spirit of Our Students, Our Children!”: Korean Student Identity and the 1919 March First Movement in The Grass Roof and The Yalu Flows Deborah B. Solomon 11 Christianity, Western Modernity, and the “Third Space” in Colonial Korea: The US-Educated Elite and the Quest for Democracy Yoonmi Lee Index
