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Question 1

What are the stakes of national history, language, and culture in a colonized space?

Answer 1

• A place under colonial rule (Korean)
• Western “world-system”: a global order based on the nation-state form
• Self-identity required a specifically national consciousness
• National community = imagined community

Question 2

What are the colonial rule (Robinson)?

Answer 2

• Japanese colonial governance changes over time–assimilation, domination, they want to make Korea productive + fell part of J empire (assimilation)
• Colonial oppression–> develop national consciousness, a new “imagined community

Question 3

What are the 3 Phases of Colonial Rule?

Answer 3

1. Military rule (1910-1919)
2. Cultural rule (1919-1931)
3. Wartime mobilization (1931-1945)

Question 4

What are the 3 Phases of Colonial Rule?

Answer 4

1. Military rule (1910-1919)
2. Cultural rule (1919-1931)
3. Wartime mobilization (1931-1945)

Question 5

What does Military rule say?

Answer 5

• violent attitude /approach to oppression of Korean people;
• Giant inventory project: counting assets, land management, educational regulations
• Rewriting the genealogy of Korean culture

Question 6

What happened in March 1st Uprising?

Answer 6

• Korea declaration of independence, 1919, protest

- Visible moment of national unity. Connected Koreans across global flows of people and information

Question 7

How do Korean people get inspired in March 1st movement?

Answer 7

• This is a Transnational Appeal
• inspired by the Versailles Peace Conference of 1918
• American President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points: self-determination and equality of all peoples

Question 8

What are the outcomes of March 1st movement?

Answer 8

• establish Korea gov: Shanghai Provisional Government
• Japan faces international condemnation
• from military rule to “cultural rule”
• Cultural hegemony (in Robinson’s view, a softer, yet more effective mode of colonial domination)

Question 9

What is hegemony?

Answer 9

When the values of the ruling class become “natural,” “normal,” and “common sense.”

Question 10

What is Cultural hegemony?

Answer 10

• Domination achieved by establishing cultural norms

- Reinforced by social institutions that support the beliefs, values, and perceptions that benefit the ruling class.

Question 11

What does cultural rule equals to?

Answer 11

Cultural hegemony霸权 p16 not yet

Question 12

What does cultural rule equals to?

Answer 12

Cultural hegemony霸权 p16 not yet L4