Assimilating Seoul

Todd A. Henry is Assistant Professor of History at University of California, San Diego.

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Todd A. Henry

页数:320

出版时间:2014-2-15

价格:USD 49.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780520276550

图书标签:历史朝鲜日治首尔日本Japanese-history美国民族志日本史

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Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study in English of Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial expositions, and sanitation campaigns, Todd A. Henry offers a transnational account that treats the city’s public spaces as "contact zones," showing how residents negotiated pressures to become loyal, industrious, and hygienic subjects of the Japanese empire. Unlike previous, top-down analyses, this ethnographic history investigates modalities of Japanese rule as experienced from below. Although the colonial state set ambitious goals for the integration of Koreans, Japanese settler elites and lower-class expatriates shaped the speed and direction of assimilation by bending government initiatives to their own interests and identities. Meanwhile, Korean men and women of different classes and generations rearticulated the terms and degree of their incorporation into a multiethnic polity. Assimilating Seoul captures these fascinating responses to an empire that used the lure of empowerment to disguise the reality of alienation.

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A great example of historical ethnography. It succeeds in making you feel that “I been there then.”

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A great example of historical ethnography. It succeeds in making you feel that “I been there then.”

新书，想找个书评都难。。

A great example of historical ethnography. It succeeds in making you feel that “I been there then.”