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Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey
01 Jan 2007-
TL;DR: For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. "Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey" is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region.Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century imperialism, Michael Robinson shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s. He locates the origins of both modern nationalism and the economic and cultural modernization of Korea in the twenty years preceding the fall of the traditional state to Japanese colonialism in 1910.Robinson breaks new ground with his analysis of the colonial period, tracing the ideological division of contemporary Korea to the struggle of different actors to mobilize a national independence movement at the time. More importantly, he locates the reason for successful Japanese hegemony in policies that included - and thus implicated - Koreans within the colonial system. He concludes with a discussion of the political and economic evolution of South and North Korea after 1948 that accounts for the valid legitimacy claims of both nation-states on the peninsula.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the new geography of identity and the future of Feminist Criticism in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology, and explore the relationship between gender, race, and identity.
Abstract: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Locational Feminism3Pt. IFeminism/Multiculturalism15Ch. 1\"Beyond\" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism17Ch. 2\"Beyond\" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse36Ch. 3\"Beyond\" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands67Pt. IIFeminism/Globalism105Ch. 4Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at \"Home\" - The Case of Virginia Woolf107Ch. 5Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology132Ch. 6\"Routes/Roots\": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity151Pt. IIIFeminism/Poststructuralism179Ch. 7Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism181Ch. 8Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire199Ch. 9Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice228Notes243References281Index303
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05 Oct 2015
TL;DR: Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Korean "Collaborators" of Japanese Colonialism Jeong-Chul Kim Part II: Bilateral Conflicts and Lessons of ReconCiliation Myoung-Kyu Park 21.
Abstract: Introduction Part I: Domestic Trauma and Prospects of Reconciliation 1. The Changing Circle of Alliance and the National Day Parade in China Tim F. Liao and Libin Zhang 2. Cacophonous Memories: Revision of the Official Narrative on the War of Resistance against Japan in Post-Mao China and its Limitations Rui Gao 3. Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Mao China, 1976-1982 Bin Xu 4. Memory and Others: Japan's Mnemonic Turn in the 1990s Kazuya Fukuoka 5. Reconciliation Prospects and Divided War Memories in Japan: An Analysis of Major Newspapers on the Comfort Women Issue Shunichi Takekawa 6. (In)visible Women: Gendering of Popular War Memories through the Narrative of the Battleship Yamato for Six Decades in Postwar Japan Kaori Yoshida 7. Memory Wars and Prospects for Reconciliation in South Korea Don Baker 8. Tracing Memories of Tauchi Chizuko: Korean Memories of Historical Shame and the "Japanese Mother of Korean War Orphans" Mikyoung Kim 9. Critical Assessments of the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission Dong-Choon Kim 10. On Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Korean "Collaborators" of Japanese Colonialism Jeong-Chul Kim Part II: Bilateral Conflicts and Lessons of Reconciliation 11. People's Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association and Critical War Memory in the 1950s Franziska Seraphim 12. Troubled Seas: Japan's Pacific and East China Sea Domains and Claims Gavan McCormack 13. The Role of Compensation in Sino-Japanese Reconciliation: Compensation as a Means to Restore Justice Ja-hyun Chun 14. Reconciliation and the Goguryeo/Gaogouli Disputes between China and South Korea David Hundt and Baogang He 15. Manchuria: An Imagined Space for Emancipation, Conflict, and Reconciliation Sunyoung Park 16. Comfort Women Controversy and Its Implications for Japan-ROK Reconciliation Yangmo Ku 17. Korea-Japan Reconciliation and the Dokdo (Takeshima) Issue Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee 18. Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Political Archivization: A Comparative Study of Commemoration in South Korea and Japan of the Jeju April 3 incident Sungman Koh 19. The Reparation Movement: Lingering Legacies of DPRK-Japan Collusion Tessa Morris-Suzuki 20. Semantic Approach for Inter-Korea Reconciliation: Reflection on Conceptual Division and Political Divergence Myoung-Kyu Park 21. Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory Nan Kim Part III: East Asia's Challenges of Reconciliation 22. The San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Regional Conflicts: The Cold War Legacies Kimie Hara 23. Japanese Perceptions of Territorial Disputes and Its Implications for Reconciliation Mikyoung Kim 24. East Asia and Cosmopolitan Memory Hiro Saito 25. Divided Memories and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia Gi-Wook Shin 26. Historical Memory and Reconciliation in China's Relations with Its Neighbors Xiaoming Zhang Conclusion
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...And students and intellectuals faced arrest, torture, and jail if they spoke out against Park’s authoritarian rule, especially after 1972 (Robinson 2007, 127–139; Sohn 2007, 125–222)....
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...(Brooke 2004) 6 For a succinct summary of the various types of Korean nationalism in the first half of the twentieth century, see Robinson (2007)....
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TL;DR: Levels of self-rated health and correlates of SRH among older adults in Australia, United States of America, Japan, Japan and South Korea are investigated to understand the complex societal influences on perceptions of health.
Abstract: Background: Self-rated health is commonly employed in research studies that seek to assess the health status of older individuals. Perceptions of health are, however, influenced by individual and societal level factors that may differ within and between countries. This study investigates levels of self-rated health (SRH) and correlates of SRH among older adults in Australia, United States of America (USA), Japan and South Korea. Methods: Cross-sectional data were drawn from large surveys of older respondents (≥ 65 years) in Australia (n=7,355), USA (n=10,358), Japan (n=3,541) and South Korea (n=3,971), collected between 2000 and 2006. Harmonized variables were developed to represent socioeconomic, lifestyle and health indicators. We then assessed whether these variables, and their potentially different impact in different countries, could account for cross-national differences in levels of SRH. Results: SRH differed significantly between countries, with older Koreans reporting much poorer health than those in the other three nations. This was not the result of biases in response patterns (for example central versus extreme tendency). Health-related correlates of SRH were similar across countries; those with more medical conditions, functional limitations or poor mental health gave poorer ratings. After accounting for the differential impact of determinants in different national contexts, Australians reported better SRH than other nations. Conclusions: We conclude that when examining correlates of SRH, the similarities are greater than the differences between countries. There are however differences in levels of SRH which are not fully accounted for by the health correlates. Broad generalizations about styles of responding are not helpful for understanding these differences, which appear to be country, and possibly cohort specific. When using SRH to characterize the health status of older people, it is important to consider earlier life experiences of cohorts as well as national and individual factors in later life. Further research is required to understand the complex societal influences on perceptions of health.
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...During the first half of the twentieth century, Korea suffered a particularly troubled history, with the greatest pressures on the population falling during the period 1935–1945 [41]....
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TL;DR: The Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southwest Asia by Paul Greenough and Ann Lowenhaupt Tsing (Eds.) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays written at a 1995 conference on Environmental Discourses and Human Welfare in Southeast Asia.
Abstract: Review: Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southwest Asia By Paul Greenough and Ann Lowenhaupt Tsing (Eds.) Paul Greenough and Ann Lowenhaupt Tsing (Eds.). Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southwest Asia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 428 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3150-0 (cloth); 0-8223- 3149-7 (paper). US$89.95 cloth; US$24.95 paper. Acid-free paper. In this eclectic and surprisingly cohesive anthology, the editors and authors invite the reader to explore the complexities within Asia's perspectives on the very concepts of nature, environment, and man. The papers published here were first delivered at a 1995 conference on Environmental Discourses and Human Welfare in South and Southeast Asia, and they have now been made available in this beautifully produced volume from Duke University Press. The essays might have traveled more easily under a simpler title, such as Nature in South and Southeast Asia, because only scant reference is made to the global studies paradigm that apparently inspired the more cumbersome title. Further, the contributors are not concerned so much with assessing specific projects as with introducing and exploring a broad range of Asians' ideas and discourses about the natural world. That said, the essays here are, without exception, well presented and fully documented. Historians and environmentalists with regional interests will find this book a useful guide to both the sources and contours of contemporary environmental debates and developments in South Asia, particularly in India and Indonesia. For example, the foundations of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's compelling policy interest in wilderness preservation is explained in terms of her childhood attachments to animals and birds, including her experiences as a youthful political prisoner of the British during the 1942 "Quit India" campaign. The cultivation system of agrarian development introduced by Dutch administrators in 19th century Java is examined as a system that first penalized peasant relocation and later, in the early 20th century, produced officially sponsored internal peasant migrations to the outer islands of the Dutch Indies archipelago, with attendant cultural and environmental consequences. Vivid writing and creative styling, including case studies, an imaginary visit to a future museum, and a dialogue between an "Author" and a "Critic," set a fast pace, and fascinating discussions abound. Three essays merit special mention. Historical, religious, and linguistic cues to the cultural locus of forests in the South and Southeast Asian mind is treated in a learned piece by Michael R. …
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...ended the Agreed Framework with North Korea, ending fuel aid (Robinson, 2007); page 186....
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...Only 12% of the population belongs to the Party, for example (Robinson, 2007); page 148....
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...to, its leaders, including education, employment, and health care (Robinson, 2007)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a very different view of the arts of practice in a very diverse culture, focusing on the use of ordinary language and making do in the art of practice.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a plan of the present work, from absolute space to abstract space, from the Contradictions of Space to Differential Space, and from Contradictory Space to Social Space.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the concept of culture on the concepts of man and the evolution of mind in Bali has been discussed in the context of an interpretive theory of culture.
Abstract: Part I * Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Part II * The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man * The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind Part III * Religion As a Cultural System * Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols * Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example * Internal Conversion in Contemporary Bali Part IV * Ideology As a Cultural System * After the Revolution: The Fate of Nationalism in the New States * The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States * The Politics of Meaning * Politics Past, Politics Present: Some Notes on the Uses of Anthropology in Understanding the New States PART V * The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lvi-Strauss * Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali * Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
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