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Dissertation Information for Todd Andrew Henry

NAME:
- Todd Andrew Henry

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2006)

ADVISORS:
- Miriam Silverberg

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- John B. Duncan
- Edward W. Soja

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Keijo: Japanese and Korean constructions of colonial Seoul and the history of its lived spaces, 1910--1937

Abstract: From the onset of colonial rule in 1910 until the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, a main thrust of Japanese policy in colonial Korea pivoted around "assimilation" (J: doka; K: tonghwa ), the gradual transformation of colonized Koreans into dutiful, and eventually loyal, subjects of the Japanese Emperor. In contrast to previous studies which have tended to limit their discussions to the classroom acquisition of the Japanese language, this dissertation offers an expanded model of assimilation, which includes a broader spectrum of activities, such as shrine festivals, exhibition displays, and hygiene campaigns. Although colonial officials did not always explicitly identify these activities with the word assimilation, they nonetheless constituted the building blocks of what it meant for colonized Koreans to become "Japanese." To analyze this wide-ranging strategy of colonial rule, I divide assimilation into three categories based upon their respective spiritual, material, and civic foci. I argue that, though nominally separate, assimilationist efforts in these three areas operated in tandem. That is, they all displayed a similar incorporative logic, aiming to align the practices of Koreans with modern Japanese political, social, and cultural forms.

From instituting administrative regulations to enforcing minute standards of behavior, the Government-General dictated the parameters of this complex project of imperial community-building. However, as I emphasize throughout, individual agents---situated in a hierarchy of power relations based on ethnicity, class, and gender---acted and reacted to these forces "from above" within specific local contexts, or what I refer to as "officially-sanctioned, social" (J: kokyo; K: konggong ) sites. Their re-articulations "from below" determined, in large part, the resultant forms that a particular assimilation project took, many of which failed to successfully incorporate their intended objects of rule. On scales both large and small, space was the crucible in which these politics developed, from the period of "military rule" (1910-19) to that of "cultural rule" (1919-37). That is to say, Keijo's various spatial forms were of a piece with these historical struggles, mirroring them even as social and cultural interactions among inhabitants reflected back upon and thereby reshaped the lived spaces of the city.

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