Under the Black Umbrella : : Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /

Under the Black Umbrella : : Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 / / Hildi Kang.

In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umb...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Kang, Hildi,
MitwirkendeR:
Chaesu, Chŏng,
Hajŏn, Yi,
Hyegyŏng, Yu,
Okhyŏn, Yi,
Pyǒngju, Kang,
Ǔlsu, Hong,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 2 tables, 14 halftones, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Collecting the Interviews
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions Used
  • Introduction
  • 1. First Encounters
  • PART I: CHANGE BY CHOICE
  • OVERVIEW
  • 2. Shouts of lndependence
  • 3. A Map Changed My Life
  • 4. Choosing an Education
  • 5. Through the Eye of a Needle
  • 6. Business Ventures and Adventures
  • 7. I Almost Went to Canada
  • PART II: CHANGE BY COERCION
  • OVERVIEW
  • 8. A Red Line Marks My Record
  • 9. Passive Resistance
  • 10. Thought Police Stay for Dinner
  • 11. Becoming Japanese
  • 12. Drafted to the Kobe Shipyards
  • 13. The War Effort
  • 14. Mansei Korea Forever-Ten Thousand Years
  • APPENDIXES
  • A. The Interviews
  • B. Bringing the Stories Up to Date, 1945-1997
  • C. Historical Overview, 1850-1945
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Proper Names

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