Peasant protest & social change in colonial Korea

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Peasant protest & social change in colonial Korea

Gi-Wook Shin

(Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)

University of Washington Press, c1996

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Peasant protest and social change in colonial Korea

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Bibliography: p. 209-230

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The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements. Gi-Wook Shin examines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south. Utilizing interviews, documentary research, and statistical analysis, Shin analyzes variation in peasant activism and its historical, political, and socioeconomic roots, and offers a major revisionist interpretation. The study contributes to an understanding of Korea's rural political economy during the colonial era, Japanese agricultual policy, and the historical legacy of colonialism for post war social and political change in Korea.

Table of Contents

Preface Chronology Note on Romanization Introduction Explaining Peasant Protest: An Integrated View Social change and Land Tenure in Traditional Korea Colonialism and Korean Agriculture: Growth without Development Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1920-32: Ideology or Interest? The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 1: An Overview & Critique The Red Peasant Union Movement, 1930-39, Part 2: History from Below Tenant-Landlord Conflict, 1933-39: Class and Nation Japanese Militarism and Everyday forms of Resistance, 1940-44 Historical Origins of Peasant Radicalism in Liberated Korea Conclusion: Toward Reform and Revolution Appendix 1: Main Activities of Red Peasant Unions Appendix 2: Peasant Radicalism Index in Relation to Number of Red Peasant Unions and Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Religious Variables Appendix 3: Leadership Characteristics in Selected Red Peasant Unions Appendix 4: List of Counties Analyzed Notes Bibliography Index

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