In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empireβs collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan actively erased these once ubiquitous cultural
Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
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- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 291
- Category
- Library
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