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Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korean History
This lecture also includes a lesson that will respond to the California History Social Science
Framework and provide for the inclusion of Korea in World History in the 10th grade and
aligned to Common Core State Standards). Some of the topics that will be covered: late 19th
century imperialism, colonialism, Japanese occupation and reading selections from documents
and books (Lost Names and When My Name was Keoko) to understand the experience of
Koreans during occupation and its legacy in East Asia and the historical background of Dokdo
East Sea dispute.
About lecturer:
Namhee Lee is Associate Professor of modern Korean history at UCLA. She is the author of The
Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea (Cornell
University Press, 2007) and journal articles on Korean historiography, Park Chung Hee period,
and historical novels and films. She is currently working on a book project that examines the
ways in which the transition from the authoritarianism to the parliamentary democracy are
narrated in both academic writings and popular culture and shape, and are shaped by, the broad
contours of social memory, and some of the historical and political implications of the
construction of memory in contemporary South Korea.
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