Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation: Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 1880-1910 / Edition 1

ISBN-13:	9780815338741
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2000
Series:	East Asia
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the failure thesis which maintains that subsequent Japanese colonization is an indication that the early modernization process in Korea was unsuccessful.