Assimilating Seoul : Japanese rule and the politics of public space in colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Henry, Todd A., 1972
Published: University of California Press,
Publisher Address: Berkeley :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Asia Pacific modern ; 12
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Item Description: "Philip E. Lilienthal book"
Carrier Form: xviii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.
ISBN: 9780520276550 (hardback) :
0520276558 (hardback)
0520958411
9780520958418
Index Number: DS925
CLC: K312.9
K312.42
Call Number: K312.42/H524
Contents: Introduction. Assimilation and space : toward an ethnography of Japanese rule -- 1. Contructing Keijō : the uneven spaces of a colonial capital -- 2. Spiritual assimilation : Namsan's Shintō shrines and their festival celebrations -- 3. Material assimilation : colonial expositions on the Kyŏngbok Palace grounds -- 4. Civic assimilation : sanitary life in neighborhood Keijō -- 5. Imperial subjectification : the collapsing spaces of a wartime city -- Epilogue. After empire's demise : the postcolonial remaking of Seoul's public spaces.