Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:24:13 -0400
From: Deborah Natsios <dn-AT-pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: query: China, Korea and Japan - postcolonial?






The Doomed Empire:  Japan in Colonial Korea
by Ma-Ji Rhee  (of Portland State University)
Aldershot:  Ashgatge Publishing Inc. 1997
ISBN 1 85972 469 8

Includes:

3   New histories for old: Japan's attempt to rewrite Korean history
4   Language planning
5   Ritual and rhetoric in colonial Korea
6   Education,  modernity  and resistance
7   Gender and knowledge
8   Border writing: Yi Sang and colonial Korea




At 02:59 AM 6/26/98 +1000, you wrote:
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>Ayelet, 
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>I think that it is possible to refer to these East Asian countries as
>being "postcolonial" (in the sense that they may enact "postcolonial"
>strategies etc.), particularly if you define colonialism as referring also
>to Euro-American neo-colonialism and cultural hegemony (as you seem to be
>suggesting in relation to Japan, particularly). You will find this being
>referred to (albeit sometimes obliquely) in most texts on postcolonial
>theory and also recent texts on globalisation. See, for example, Arif
>Dirlik and Rey Chow (on China). 
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>Hope this helps,
> 
>Olivia.    
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