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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: 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. |
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