Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea

Gi-Wook Shin is director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as holder of the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies.

List 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

About the author

Gi-Wook Shin

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gi-Wook Shin
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1997
• EAN: 9780295975481
• ISBN: 978-0-295-97548-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Religion in the Age of Transfo; Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Korean Studies of the Henry M.; Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea; Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International StudiesKorean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International StudiesKorean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of Internation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories