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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810349803321

Autore

Hwang Kyung Moon

Titolo

Rationalizing Korea : the rise of the modern state, 1894-1945 / / Kyung Moon Hwang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-520-96327-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Disciplina

951.902

Soggetti

Public administration - Korea

HISTORY / Asia / Korea

Korea Politics and government 1864-1910

Korea Politics and government 1910-1945

Korea Social policy 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON ROMANIZATION AND TRANSLATIONS -- Introduction -- ONE. State Making under Imperialism: Fragmentation and Consolidation in the Central State -- TWO. The Centrality of the Periphery: Developing the Provincial and Local State -- THREE. Constructing Legitimacy: Symbolic Authority and Ideological Engineering -- FOUR. State and Economy: Developmentalism -- FIVE. State and Religion: Secularization and Pluralism -- SIX. Public Schooling: Cultivating Citizenship Education -- SEVEN. Population Management: Registration, Classification, and the Remaking of Society -- EIGHT. Public Health and Biopolitics: Disciplining through Disease Control -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first book to explore the institutional, ideological, and conceptual development of the modern state on the peninsula, Rationalizing Korea analyzes the state's relationship to five social sectors, each through a distinctive interpretive theme: economy (developmentalism), religion (secularization), education (public schooling), population (registration), and public health (disease control). Kyung Moon Hwang argues that



while this formative process resulted in a more commanding and systematic state, it was also highly fragmented, socially embedded, and driven by competing, often conflicting rationalizations, including those of Confucian statecraft and legitimation. Such outcomes reflected the acute experience of imperialism, nationalism, colonialism, and other sweeping forces of the era.