STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Travis Workman (University of California Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? … [Read more...]
The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sunyoung Park (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist … [Read more...]
