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Special Issue: A Longue Durée Revolution in Korea: March 1st, 1919 to the Candlelight Revolution in 2018 (Table of Contents)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Jae-Jung Suh
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The year 2019, the centennial of the March 1st, 1919, witnessed an outpouring of historical scholarship assessing the complex set of events since “the starting point of Korea's modernity in earnest.” Among a flood of conferences and publications that ensued, one group of scholars stood out for its attempts to stand above a nationalist historiography and situate what it calls the “March 1st revolution,” rather than the more widely used “March 1st Movement,” within a regional and global time. Its scholarship was unique in highlighting the sui generis nature of Koreans' historical experiences without falling into the trap of nationalist historiography while at the same time bringing to relief common challenges shared by East Asia and the world during the modern period.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 21 , November 2021 , e1
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1 Im Hyoung-Taek, “3.1undong, han'guk kŭnhyŏndaeesŏ tasi mutta,” Paengnyŏnŭi pyŏnhyŏk: 3.1esŏ ch'otbulkkaji (One Hundred Years of Change 百年の変革: From 3/1 to the Candlelight), edited by Paek Yŏngsŏ (Baik Youngseo), (Seoul: Ch'angbi, 2019), 48.

2 Capitalist modernity presents many late capitalist developers such as South Korea, most of whom have experienced colonial and/or neocolonial exploitation with challenges of both adapting to capitalism and overcoming its contradictions. Paik Nak-chung, “The Double Project of Modernity,” New Left Review 95, September/October 2015, 65-66.

3 They are selected from an anthology, Paengnyŏnŭi pyŏnhyŏk: 3.1esŏ ch'otbulkkaji (One Hundred Years of Change: From 3/1 to the Candlelight), edited by Paek Yŏngsŏ (Baik Youngseo), (Seoul: Ch'angbi, 2019). A Japanese translation is available. 百年の変革: 三・一運 動からキャンドル革命まで, 白永瑞：編, 青柳 純一：監訳 (東京: 法政大学出版局, 2021).

4 While it sought to “democratize the economy” by, for example, improving the protection of stockholders' interests, penalizing unfair practices in contractor-subcontractor relationship, and limiting labor flexibility, not only did it fail to fully implement its policies and institutionalize them, but it also stopped short of seriously addressing such issues as irregular workers and even reversed some of its earlier policies. 김경필."문재인 정부 전반기의 경제민주 화: 계획, 실천, 과제." 경제와사회 (2020): 278-301; 윤홍식."문재인 정부 2년 반, 한국 복지체제 : 개 발국가 복지체제의 해체와 과제." 비판사회정책 66 (2020): 131-174.