ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Gojong Of Korea, Durham Stevens, Meiji Restoration
7 Jun 2018
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Korean Migration
Context, Hawaii/US Mainland, Community Organizations
What effect did the colonial experience have on Korean settlement in the US?
Background on Korea
● History of foreign intervention
● Related to location - adjoining 3 nations (Russia, China)
● Suzerainty of China (1630-1875)
Choson (Yi) Dynasty
● Centralized dynastic structure - King at the top of hierarchy
● Yangban (nobility)
● Chungin (middle classes, bureaucrats, technical)
● Yangmin (peasants, craftsmen)
● Chonmin (marginalized peoples: butchers, prostitutes, indentured slaves)
Gunboat diplomacy on Hermit Kingdom
● Isolationist policies, subservient to Chinese dynasty
● French (1866)
● Americans (1871)
● Japan (1875)
○ Unyo Incident
○ Treaty of Kanghwa (1876)
■ Japanese treaty ports
■ Extra-territoriality
■ Decline Chinese influence
■ Japan and other Western nations entered
Tonghak Uprising (1892-1894)
● Eastern Learning Movement
○ Coalition between Yangban and peasants
○ Anti-Western that threatened the royal family
■ Sought help from China and Japan to stop uprising
Japan takes hold
● Sino-Japanese War - defeated China
● Russo-Japanese War - defeated Russia
○ President Theodore Roosevelt convenes
○ 1905: Japan halts immigration to Hawaii
○ 1910: Annexation
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● Victor would become future colonizer
● Treaty of Portsmouth
○ Korea becomes protectorate of Japan
Taft-Katsura Treaty (1905)
● William H. Taft and Taro Katsura signed agreement of non-intervention in each
other’s spheres of influence
○ Japan in Korea
○ U.S. in Philippines
Colonization
● China was semi-colonized by Britain and U.S.
● Japan was never colonized but responded to threat of U.S. diplomacy with Meiji
Restoration
● Korea was fully colonized by Japan
● Philippines colonized by Spain and later U.S.
● India was fully colonized by Britain
Comparisons
● Similar pull factors
○ High tax revenues instituted to pay for projects, penalties as a result of war
○ Land dispossession
○ Cottage industries couldn’t sustain people living there
● Differences
○ China was semi-colonized
○ Japan wasn’t colonized
○ Korea was fully colonized
1910 Annexation
● Korea was fully colonized
● Finance, banking, agriculture, forestry, mining, transportation, education, culture,
internal security, local administration, jurisprudence, private home were taken
away
9 Hawaii Governor’s Report
● Revealed plantation owners’ concerns
● Japanese labor unions were becoming powerful, made up majority of labor force
● Addressed labor shortage, needed some other nationality
● Koreans were the solution to Japanese labor solidarity
○ Halted by Japan in 1905
Migration arrangements to Hawaii
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Document Summary
Related to location - adjoining 3 nations (russia, china) Centralized dynastic structure - king at the top of hierarchy. Chonmin (marginalized peoples: butchers, prostitutes, indentured slaves) Sought help from china and japan to stop uprising. Korea becomes protectorate of japan other"s spheres of influence. William h. taft and taro katsura signed agreement of non-intervention in each. China was semi-colonized by britain and u. s. Japan was never colonized but responded to threat of u. s. diplomacy with meiji. Philippines colonized by spain and later u. s. High tax revenues instituted to pay for projects, penalties as a result of war. Cottage industries couldn"t sustain people living there. Finance, banking, agriculture, forestry, mining, transportation, education, culture, internal security, local administration, jurisprudence, private home were taken away (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:883) hawaii governor"s report. Addressed labor shortage, needed (cid:498)some other nationality(cid:499) Koreans were the solution to japanese labor solidarity. Japanese labor unions were becoming powerful, made up majority of labor force. Political refugees, picture brides, women and children.
