Book
Modern Korea
Institute of Pacific Relations • New York • Published In 1944 • Pages:
By: Grajdanzev, Andrew J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Grajdanzev undertook this study as part of the international research program of the Institute of Pacific Relations. He critically appraises Japanese reports and statistics and the impressions of foreign observers in Korea. He cites four reasons for making the study: (a) Korea has a large population, a long history and was once in the forefront of the world's civilizations; (b) Korea has been a Japanese colony for thirty-two years and hence is important as an example of Japanese colonial administration; (c) the war current in the Pacific makes Korea important to the Japanese war economy; and (d) the eventual peace settlement will pose a problem as to what to do about Korea. The author concentrates on (b) using comparable data on the Japanese people using comparable data on the Japanese people as a yardstick to measure the degree to which the Koreans enjoy the prosperity and welfare promised to them by the Japanese emperor at the time of the annexation. Grajdanzev's evidence indicates that Korea suffered as a result of Japanese colonial policy. On the basis of his comparative analysis, Grajdanzev marshalls a body of evidence which indicates that real political power remained with the Japanese bureaucracy, that the Japanese maintained a virtual monopoly over Korean foreign trade, that Japanese (disproportionately to their actual number in the population) occupied social positions to which substantial power, wealth, and prestige accrued, and that the standard of living did not improve under Japanese control
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Sociocultural trends
- Production and supply
- Territorial organization
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korea
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert J. Smith ; 1952
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Andrew J. Grajdanzev
- Includes index and bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans