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The first book to explore the institutional, ideological, and conceptual development of the modern state on the peninsula, Rationalizing Korea analyzes the state’s relationship to five social sectors, each through a distinctive interpretive theme: economy (developmentalism), religion (secularization), education (public schooling), population (registration), and public health (disease control). Kyung Moon Hwang argues that while this formative process resulted in a more commanding and systematic state, it was also highly fragmented, socially embedded, and driven by multiple, often conflicting, ... More
Keywords: modern Korea, state, society, rationalization, legitimacy, colonialism, Japanese imperialism, governmentality, bureaucracy
Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520288317 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520288317.001.0001 |
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