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Introduction: “Warfare and the Re-making of Korea in the 1950s”

Introduction: “Warfare and the Re-making of Korea in the 1950s” The Korean War was a major turning point in the history of the Korean peninsula, perhaps the most significant event in the history of Korea in the past one thousand years. The peninsula has not been divided into rival warring polities since the 10th Century C.E. We cannot, however, understand the history of events outside the context of wider historical processes, which for the Korean peninsula include the emergence of capitalist economic dynamics; the end of dynastic rule in Chosŏn and the expansion of the Japanese imperium; big power rivalry involving, for the first time, competitors beyond East Asia, especially nations from Europe and the United States; and new forms of political thought, particularly nationalism, which began to affect thinking and political action in Korea by the late 19th Century. Dynastic and colonial Korea, from the formative decades of the Koryŏ Dynasty to the end of Japanese rule in 1945, had, of course, regional differences and regionalism has been an important factor shaping the history of the two Koreas. Since 1948, however, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (dprk) and the Republic of Korea (rok) have forged new national histories that have become entangled with regionalism on the peninsula. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Introduction: “Warfare and the Re-making of Korea in the 1950s”

Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 24 (2-3): 9 – Sep 13, 2017

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1058-3947
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1876-5610
DOI
10.1163/18765610-02402017
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Abstract

The Korean War was a major turning point in the history of the Korean peninsula, perhaps the most significant event in the history of Korea in the past one thousand years. The peninsula has not been divided into rival warring polities since the 10th Century C.E. We cannot, however, understand the history of events outside the context of wider historical processes, which for the Korean peninsula include the emergence of capitalist economic dynamics; the end of dynastic rule in Chosŏn and the expansion of the Japanese imperium; big power rivalry involving, for the first time, competitors beyond East Asia, especially nations from Europe and the United States; and new forms of political thought, particularly nationalism, which began to affect thinking and political action in Korea by the late 19th Century. Dynastic and colonial Korea, from the formative decades of the Koryŏ Dynasty to the end of Japanese rule in 1945, had, of course, regional differences and regionalism has been an important factor shaping the history of the two Koreas. Since 1948, however, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (dprk) and the Republic of Korea (rok) have forged new national histories that have become entangled with regionalism on the peninsula.

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Journal of American-East Asian RelationsBrill

Published: Sep 13, 2017

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