Assimilating Seoul: Japanese rule and the politics of public space in colonial Korea, 1910-1945

Abstract

List of Illustrations Note on Place Names Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Assimilation and Space: Toward an Ethnography of Japanese Rule 1. Constructing Keijo: The Uneven Spaces of a Colonial Capital 2. Spiritual Assimilation: Namsan's Shinto Shrines and Their Festival Celebrations 3. Material Assimilation: Colonial Expositions on the Kyongbok Palace Grounds 4. Civic Assimilation: Sanitary Life in Neighborhood Keijo 5. Imperial Subjectification: The Collapsing Spaces of a Wartime City Epilogue. After Empire's Demise: The Postcolonial Remaking of Seoul's Public Spaces Notes Selected Bibliography Index