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).

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Introduction: Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Power and State Formation in Korea, 1875–1945

 Andrew Hall and Leighanne Yuh



Part 1: Education and Language Issues in Late Chosŏn

1 Linguistic Modernity, Education, and Nationalizing the Vernacular in Pre-colonial Korea: Divergences between Western Missionary and Indigenous Discourses

 Daniel Pieper



2 Legitimizing Literary Sinitic in Korea’s Pre-colonial Classroom: Yŏ Kyuhyŏng and the Publication of Hanmunhak kyogwasŏ

 W. Scott Wells



3 Late Nineteenth-Century Modern Education in Korea: The State, Ideology, and Moral Education

 Leighanne Yuh



4 Official Foreign Language Schools in Korea, 1894–1906

 Yong-Jin Hahn



Part 2: Japanese Colonial Education: Plans, Schools, and Textbooks

5 Japan’s Education Policies in Korea in the 1910s: “Thankful and Obedient”

 Andrew Hall



6 The Construction of Elementary Education in Early Colonial Korea: Non-compulsory Education and Japan’s Dissemination of Schools

 Furukawa Noriko



7 Korean Language Textbooks, 1895–1932: Mixed Script, Hanmun, and Colonization

 Lim Sang-Seok



8 History Education in Colonial-Era Korea: The Rise and Fall of Chōsen Jireki as Local History

 Kokubu Mari



Part 3: Korean Responses to Colonial Rule

9 Korean Reactions to Japanese Education Policy under Cultural Rule, 1920–1931

 Mark E. Caprio



10 “The Spirit of Our Students, Our Children!”: Korean Student Identity and the 1919 March First Movement in The Grass Roof and The Yalu Flows

 Deborah B. Solomon



11 Christianity, Western Modernity, and the “Third Space” in Colonial Korea: The US-Educated Elite and the Quest for Democracy

 Yoonmi Lee



Index