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LECTURES AND READINGS
Week 1:
1/17 Introduction: The Kingdom of Chosôn
Readings: Cumings, chapter one
Isabella Bird Bishop, Korea and Her Neighbors (1897), pp. 11-65 (Starr)
Week 2:
1/22 Korea and the West
1/24 The End of the East Asian World Order
Readings: Cumings, chapter two
Key-Hiuck Kim, The Last Phase of the East Asian World Order, pp. 1-76,
226-255, 301-351 (Starr)
Week 3:
1/29 The Abortive Enlightenment
1/31 The Tonghak Uprising
Readings: Young-ick Lew, "Yuan Shih-kai's Residency and the Korean
Enlightenment Movement, 1885-1894," Journal of Korean Studies 5 (1984),
pp. 63-107 (Starr)
Susan Shin, "The Tonghak Movement: From Enlightenment to Revolution,"
Korean Studies Forum 5 (Winter-Spring 1978-9), pp. 1-76 (Starr)
Week 4:
2/5 The Great Han Empire
2/7 The Road to Annexation
Readings: Cumings, chapter three
Week 5:
2/12 Japanese Colonial Rule
2/14 Economic and Social Change
Readings: Shin and Robinson, Colonial Modernity in Korea, introduction,
chapters 1, 3, and 5
Week 6:
2/19 Nationalism, Resistance, and Accommodation
2/10 FILM: “The Clan Records”
2/21 Culture and Colonial Modernity
Readings: Shin and Robinson, Colonial Modernity in Korea, chapters 2,
7, and 10
Richard Kim, Lost Names, pp. 87-115 (Starr)
Kajiyama Toshiyuki, "The Clan Records" in The Clan Records:
Five Stories of Korea, pp. 7-46 (Starr)
Week 7:
2/26 Total War and Social Mobilization
2/28 Liberation
Readings: Cumings, chapter four
Carter Eckert, "Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in
Late Colonial Korea," in Peter Duus et al, ed. The Japanese Wartime
Empire, pp. 3-39 (Starr)
Ch'ae Man-sik, "The Wife and Children," and Kim Tongni, "The
Post Horse Curse," in Pihl and Fulton, Land of Exile, pp. 3-33
Week 8:
3/5 The Korean War
3/7 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Readings: Cumings, chapter five
Week 9:
3/19 Postwar South Korea
3/20 FILM: “Our Twisted Hero”
3/21 Special lecture and film by Ted Conant, independent filmmaker: “Children
in Crisis”
Readings: Cumings, chapter six
Chôn Kwangyong, "Kapitan Ri," and Kim Sûngok, "Seoul,
1964, Winter," in Pihl, Land of Exile, pp. 58-101
Week 10:
3/26 The Economic Miracle
3/28 The Democratic Movement
Readings: Cumings, chapter seven
Hwang Sôgyông, "A Dream of Good Fortune," Pak Wansô,
"Winter Outing," and Cho Chôngnae, "Land of Exile,"
in Pihl, Land of Exile, pp. 115-164, 200-243
Week 11:
4/2 Postwar North Korea
4/4 The Kingdom of the Kims
Readings: Cumings, chapter eight
Charles K. Armstrong, “The Nature, Origins, and Development of the
North Korean State,” in Samuel S. Kim, ed. The North Korean System
in the Post-Kim Il Sung Era (Starr)
Week 12:
4/9 Civil Society in Contemporary Korea
4/10 FILM: “The Petal”
4/11 Globalization and Korean Identity
Readings: Abelmann and Lie, Blue Dreams, Preface, chapters 1-3
Ch’oe Yun, “There a Petal Silently Falls,” Korea Journal
vol. 37, no. 4 (Winter 1997) and vol. 49, no. 1 (Spring 1998) (Starr)Week
13:
4/16 Ambiguities of US-Korean Relations
4/18 Korean-Americans in the Korean Diaspora
Readings: Cumings, chapter nine
Abelmann and Lie, Blue Dreams, chapters 4-6, conclusion
Week 14:
4/23 The Two Koreas: Toward Unification?
Readings: Cumings, chapter ten
4/25 FILM: “Homes Apart” (in class)
Week 15:
4/30 Concluding Discussion
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