Author: Chong-Sik LeePublisher:
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Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The Korean Nationalist Movement, 1905-1945
Author: Chong-Sik LeeThe Quest for Statehood
Author: Richard S. KimPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195369998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In this book, Richard S. Kim examines the central role played by immigrants in the independence movement that sought to liberate Korea from Japanese colonization. Regarding Japanese rule as illegitimate, Koreans in and out of the Korean peninsula viewed themselves as a stateless people. Their independence activities had to be carried out from abroad, creating conditions for the emergence of a diasporic nationalism. Using English and Korean language sources, Kim traces how Koreans in the United States articulated visions of national sovereignty, drawing particularly on American political rhetoric and symbolism, and increasingly relied on U.S. state power to mobilize international support for their cause. Their efforts to establish an independent homeland necessitated their participation in civic and political activities in the United States, engaging in organizational activity that led to the development of an ethnic consciousness and paradoxically established them as an American ethnic group. Ultimately, Kim argues, homeland nationalism was central to the assimilation of Korean immigrants as American ethnics, even as they were denied U.S. citizenship.
The History of the Korean Independence Movement
Author: Activism and Identity
Author: Sara Elizabeth DeedePublisher:
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Korean Independence Movement was a four decades long endeavor from 1905 to 1945 by Koreans to liberate Korea from Japanese colonization. Korean immigrants in America played a vital role in the movement. They contributed money, organized patriotic activities in their communities to raise awareness and issued appeals for support to the U.S. government. Throughout the years, and from generation to generation, Korean immigrants remained loyal to Korea's cause for liberation. This study discusses how this intense patriotic involvement to their homeland affected Koreans immigrants' experiences in America, namely, how such intense overseas nationalism shaped their Americanization process. Korean immigrants have told about their experiences in the form of memoirs, short narratives, interviews and speeches. These provide many first-person perspectives from which to understand Korean immigrants' changing senses of community, patriotism and acculturation. Many of these sources have come available in the last twenty years, but academic scholars have left these source largely untouched. Historians of Korean immigrant history often discuss the political components of the K.I.M. Although recognizing the importance of the Korean Independence Movement to Korean immigrants, scholars have, nonetheless, said very little as to how this movement affected them socially. This study examines how America influenced historical developments culturally by shaping the attitudes of Korea's most politically active nationalists--the Korean immigrants in America. Furthermore, this study argues that Koreans in America utilized the K.I.M. for much more than Korean independence and that their motives evolved throughout the decades. The early immigrants used the K.I.M. as a means to establish a Korean community and establish social networks while the later activists, particularly after 1919, used their demonstrations to broadcast their distinct Asian identity as well as their assimilation and loyalty to America. More simply put, Korean patriotism and Korean immigrant "Americanization," are intimately connected.
The American Response to the Korean Independence Movement, 1910-1945
Author: Timothy Lincoln SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Korean Nationalist Movement, 1905-1945
Author: Chong-Sik LeeHistory of the Korean independence movement
Author: Korea Must be Free
Author: Kei Won ChungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean resistance movements, 1905-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Independence Movement of the Korean People, 1919-1945
Author: Ik Whan InKorean Independence Movements Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1919-1937
Author: Kenneth M. WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description