Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea

Auteur

Jung Lee is an assistant professor at the Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.

Texte du rabat

This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonisation from 1910 to 1945.

Contenu

Introduction 1. European Botany Made in Japan 2. Japanese Botany Made in Korea 3. Unsettling Imperial Universality 4. Civilizing Ourselves 5. Becoming Japanese through Collaboration 6. Imperial Transformation of Traditions 7. Confined to Imperial Privilege 8. Liberating through Provincial Botany Conclusion. Moving beyond Mistaken Names for Connected Provincial Tasks