Plays of Colonial Korea
Plays of Colonial Korea

Author: Se-Dok Ham

Publisher: Eastbridge Books

Published: 2007-03-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781788690348

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During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young intellectuals like Se-dŏk Ham, eager to transform the traditional Korean ways, introduced Western arts, philosophy, and technology and styled themselves as bringing enlightenment. It was in this edgy, tumultuous world that Ham's plays were first performed. With the end of World War II and the collapse of the Japanese colonial government, Ham opted to side with North Korea. Subsequently, he was blacklisted for more than forty years in the South as a leftist and communist defector. Publication or performance of his works as well as any form of scholarly investigation into his life and work were banned until 1988. That year, on the eve of the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea "rehabilitated" him along with a number of other artists known to have supported communist North Korea. The literary reputation of Ham is giving new impetus to a global examination of Korea's colonial literature and this is the first volume of his plays to be translated into English.

Plays of Colonial Korea
Plays of Colonial Korea

Author: Se-dŏk Ham

Publisher: Signature Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 9781891936937

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During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young intellectuals like Se-dŏk Ham, eager to transform the traditional Korean ways, introduced Western arts, philosophy, and technology and styled themselves as bringing enlightenment. It was in this edgy, tumultuous world that Ham¿s plays were first performed. With the end of World War II and the collapse of the Japanese colonial government, Ham opted to side with North Korea. Subsequently, he was blacklisted for more than forty years in the South as a leftist and communist defector. Publication or performance of his works as well as any form of scholarly investigation into his life and work were banned until 1988. That year, on the eve of the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea ¿rehabilitated¿ him along with a number of other artists known to have supported communist North Korea. The literary reputation of Ham is giving new impetus to a global examination of Korea¿s colonial literature and this is the first volume of his plays to be translated into English. Jinhee Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean/Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University.

Plays of Colonial Korea
Plays of Colonial Korea

Author: Se-dŏk Ham

Publisher: Signature Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young intellectuals, like Se-dok Ham, who were convinced that the traditional Korean way was in great need of transformation, introduced the arts, philosophy, and technology of the West and thought of themselves as providing a form of enlightenment. It was in this fast-changing world that Ham?s plays first made their appearance. The life and career of Se-dok Ham were as tragic as the course of the Japanese occupation. For more than 40 years he was blacklisted after being declared a leftist and because he defected to communist North Korea. Both the publication of his works and any form of scholarly investigation into his life and work were banned until 1988 when the South Korean government, on the eve of the twenty-fourth Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, ?rehabilitated? him along with a score of other artists known to have sympathized with communist North Korea. Although the literary reputation and reception of Ham are casting a new light on the global reexamination of Korea?s colonial literature, this is the first volume of his plays to be translated into English.

Korean Drama Under Japanese Occupation
Korean Drama Under Japanese Occupation

Author: Ch'i-jin Yu

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 193190717X

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From 1910 to 1945, Japan occupied Korea and controlled every aspect of the Korean life. This book presents three plays by two prominent Korean writers who ventured to voice anti-Japanese sentiments in their plays despite the harsh censorship of the time.

Four Contemporary Korean Plays
Four Contemporary Korean Plays

Author: Yun-t'aek Yi

Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 32. Chapters: The Santaroga Barrier, The Lathe of Heaven, The Colour Out of Space, Spacehounds of IPC, Trullion: Alastor 2262, The Skylark of Space, Triplanetary, The Second Trip, Armageddon 2419 A.D., The Master Mind of Mars, Skylark Three, I, Robot, Breakfast at Twilight, After 12,000 Years, Tarzan and the Foreign Legion, Anniversary, The Planet Savers, Llana of Gathol, Savage Pellucidar, The Sunken World, The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal, The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use, Marooned Off Vesta, Gateway to Strangeness, What is This Thing Called Love?, Robot AL-76 Goes Astray, Time Enough, The Builder, One Million Tomorrows, Satisfaction Guaranteed, The Return of Tharn, The Crystal Horde, The Hidden Universe, The Days of Perky Pat, Sshhh ..., Billennium, Islands of Space, The Bridge of Light, Seeds of Life, Birth of a Notion, The Ship Who Searched, Project Nightmare, Encounter in the Dawn, Divided We Fall, Uphill Climb, Whatll We Do with Ragland Park'. Excerpt: The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. The plot revolves around a character whose dreams alter reality. The story was first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The novel received nominations for the 1972 Hugo and the 1971 Nebula Award, and won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1972. Two television film adaptations have been released: the acclaimed PBS production, The Lathe of Heaven (1980); and Lathe of Heaven (2002), a remake produced by the A&E Network. The title is taken from the writings of Chuang Tzu - specifically a passage from Book XXIII, paragraph 7, quoted as an epigraph to Chapter 3 of the novel: To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. ( ...

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945

Author: Hong Yung Lee

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2013-07-15

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0295804491

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Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space within the colonial system to show agency. Topics covered range from economic development and national identity to education and family; from peasant uprisings and thought conversion to a comparison of missionary and colonial leprosariums. These various new assessments of Japan's colonial legacy may open up new and illuminating approaches to historical memory that will resonate not just in Korean studies, but in colonial and postcolonial studies in general, and will have implications for the future of regional politics in East Asia.

North Korea
North Korea

Author: Heonik Kwon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1442215771

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This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea’s political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country’s unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung’s rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a public political culture that would consolidate Kim’s charismatic power and his own hereditary authority. The result was the birth of a powerful modern theater state that sustains North Korean leaders’ sovereignty now to a third generation. In defiance of the instability to which so many revolutionary states eventually succumb, the durability of charismatic politics in North Korea defines its exceptional place in modern history. Kwon and Chung make an innovative contribution to comparative socialism and postsocialism as well as to the anthropology of the state. Their pioneering work is essential for all readers interested in understanding North Korea’s past and future, the destiny of charismatic power in modern politics, the role of art in enabling this power.

Eclipsed Cinema
Eclipsed Cinema

Author: Dong Hoon Kim

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-03-22

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1474421822

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In this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity, film historiography and national cinema. By reconstructing the lost intricacies of colonial film history, Eclipsed Cinema explores under-investigated aspects of colonial film culture, such as the representational politics of colonial cinema, the film unit of the colonial government, the social reception of Hollywood cinema, and Japanese settlers' film culture. Filling a significant void in Asian film history, Eclipsed Cinema greatly expands the critical and historical scopes of early cinema and Korean and Japanese film histories, as well as modern Asian culture, and colonial and postcolonial studies.

Performing the Nation in Global Korea
Performing the Nation in Global Korea

Author: H. Lee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1137453583

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This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South Korean theatre in the global era. With a focus on performances that targeted global audiences, Lee explores the ways in which Korea's nationalistic desires for global visibility are projected on stage.