Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History by Seth, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors 1 Introduction: understanding modern Korean history PART I Late Chosŏn

PART II The colonial period

8 The politics of assimilation: Koreans into Japanese 9 Colonial modernity 10 Women, gender, and social change in colonial Korea 11 Nationalist movements before 1945

PART III Division and war

PART IV North Korea

14 North Korean state-making: process and characteristics 15 North Korea’s chuch’e philosophy 16 A dynastic polity in economic stagnation and decline 17 The North Korean famine 18 North Korea under Kim Jong II 19 Marriage, family, and sexuality in North Korea

PART V South Korea

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