EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Korea Independence Party, Korean War, Class Conflict
5 Feb 2018
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War, national division and postwar reconstruction in golden age cinema. 1951-53: continueing war of attrition and signing of armistice. Cumulative effect of colonial rule, particularly in its last 10 years, was to heighten class conflict in korea (robinson, 101) Tenancy rates approached 80% in some countries in cholla province (southwest)- leads to migration to cities. Question over what would become of the major japanese landholdings, hope for broad land distribution. Population displacement war mobilization sent millions of koreans from their homes. Overcrowded cities: rural migrants and returnees: landless peasants, factory workers, and returnees from across former japanese territories. Political factionalism: no broad coalition of nationalists to assume leadership of korean people. Members of korean independence party return from exile in china. Kim ii sung and manchurian guerrillas return with the soviet army in the north. Trusteeship: the principle agreed upon by world powers, for tra(cid:374)sfer of po(cid:449)er to korea(cid:374)s (cid:862)i(cid:374) due (cid:272)ourse(cid:863): Allied trusteeship: american leadership role in pacific.
