Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of Illustrations vii
3. Note on Place Names ix
4. Contents xiii
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction. Assimilation and Space: Toward an Ethnography of Japanese Rule 1
7. 1. Constructing Keijō: The Uneven Spaces of a Colonial Capital 22
8. 2. Spiritual Assimilation: Namsan’s Shinto- Shrines and Their Festival Celebrations 62
9. 3. Material Assimilation: Colonial Expositions on the Kyŏngbok Palace Grounds 92
10. 4. Civic Assimilation: Sanitary Life in Neighborhood Keijō 130
11. 5. Imperial Subjectification: The Collapsing Spaces of a Wartime City 168
12. Epilogue. After Empire’s Demise: The Postcolonial Remaking of Seoul’s Public Spaces 204
13. Notes 219
14. Selected Bibliography 269
15. Index 289