Competing Memories of Japanese Colonization and Resistance

A Study of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Textbooks

Bibliographic Data

ID19128016
AuthorsSin Ju-Back (corresponding author), Sin Ju-Back Sin Ju-Back
Year2007
Volume10
Issue2
Pages161-186
Publication date2007-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Korean Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1229-0076 • E-ISSN: 2733-9351
PublisherThe Academy of Korean Studies (PUBLISHER • KR)
DOI10.25024/review.2007.10.2.008
OpenAlexW2121380954
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This paper attempts to develop an understanding of the ways in which Korean, Chinese, and Japanese middle school textbooks depict colonial rule and resistance in the period of Japanese expansion in Northeast Asia. The first section discusses the three nations’ distinct perspectives on the period of Japanese invasion. The second section examines the memory of resistance, namely the March First Movement, or Samil Movement, and the May Fourth Movement, which are taught as major turning points in the independence movement in Korea and China, respectively. Japan’s policy of securing wartime armament, discussed at length in Korean and Chinese textbooks, is examined in the third section. In addition to material mobilization, the forced nature of human resource mobilization is also covered extensively. Manchuria is discussed in the fourth section because of it being the historical intersection of Korea, China, and Japan. The final section details the importance of August 15, 1945

Archaeology · Biology · Colonization · Korean culture · Korean language · Korean studies · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Psychology

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