Education, Language and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Modern Korea, 1875-1945

Andrew Hall, Ph.D. (2003), University of Pittsburgh, is an Associate Professor of history at Kyushu University. His scholarship focuses on Japanese colonial education in China and Korea, including “First Steps towards Assimilation: Japanese-Run Education in Korea, 1905-1910,” (Acta Koreana, 2015). Leighanne Yuh, Ph.D. (2008), University of California at Los Angeles, is an Associate Professor of Korean History at Korea University. Her primary research interest is in intellectual and educational history in the periods of nation-building (late Chosŏn and Open Ports, roughly 1876-1910) and the colonial era and she has published numerous articles on this topic, including, “Korean Female Education, Social Status, and Early Transitions, 1898-1910,” (Korea Journal, 2021).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Power and State Formation in Korea, 1875–1945Andrew Hall and Leighanne YuhPart 1: Education and Language Issues in Late Chosŏn1 Linguistic Modernity, Education, and Nationalizing the Vernacular in Pre-colonial Korea: Divergences between Western Missionary and Indigenous DiscoursesDaniel Pieper2 Legitimizing Literary Sinitic in Korea’s Pre-colonial Classroom: Yŏ Kyuhyŏng and the Publication of Hanmunhak kyogwasŏW. Scott Wells3 Late Nineteenth-Century Modern Education in Korea: The State, Ideology, and Moral EducationLeighanne Yuh4 Official Foreign Language Schools in Korea, 1894–1906Yong-Jin HahnPart 2: Japanese Colonial Education: Plans, Schools, and Textbooks5 Japan’s Education Policies in Korea in the 1910s: “Thankful and Obedient”Andrew Hall6 The Construction of Elementary Education in Early Colonial Korea: Non-compulsory Education and Japan’s Dissemination of SchoolsFurukawa Noriko7 Korean Language Textbooks, 1895–1932: Mixed Script, Hanmun, and ColonizationLim Sang-Seok8 History Education in Colonial-Era Korea: The Rise and Fall of Chōsen Jireki as Local HistoryKokubu MariPart 3: Korean Responses to Colonial Rule9 Korean Reactions to Japanese Education Policy under Cultural Rule, 1920–1931Mark E. Caprio10 “The Spirit of Our Students, Our Children!”: Korean Student Identity and the 1919 March First Movement in The Grass Roof and The Yalu FlowsDeborah B. Solomon11 Christianity, Western Modernity, and the “Third Space” in Colonial Korea: The US-Educated Elite and the Quest for DemocracyYoonmi LeeIndex