CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments = ⅶ
Ⅰ. Introduction：Problems, Issues and Method = 1
1.1. Modernization and the Question of Western Hegemony = 1
1.2. Education：Old and New = 2
1.3. Theories of Non-Western Modernization Applied to Korea at the Turn of the Century = 5
1.4. The Politics of Modern Nationalism and Education In Korea：The Nature of the Argument = 7
Modern Nationalism = 7
The Modernizers and Their Ideology = 10
The “Recontextualized” Discourses of National Identity and the Textbooks = 11
1.5. Methodology：Interpretive Historical Sociology = 13
1.6. The Outline of the Argument：The Chapters = 14
Ⅱ. Theories：Modern Mass Education and the Construction of National Identity = 17
2.1. The Interstate System and Modern Mass Education = 17
2.2. State Formation, National Identity and the Politics of Education = 19
Internal Dynamics, State Formation and National Education Building = 19
Nation Building and the Politics of Nationalism = 23
National Identity and the Politics of Education = 28
Ⅲ. The Emergence of the Modernizers and Their Ideology：Crisis, Redefinition of Civilization and Education = 37
3.1. Traditional Society, Frustrations and Aspirations：The Modernizers and Shilbak = 37
3.2. The Crisis and the Redefinition of Civilization：Social Darwinism, Nationalism and Education = 42
Darwinism in the West and in East Asia = 44
Social Darwinism, Nationalism, Education in Korea = 50
Gradualism, Optimism, and the New Education = 59
Ⅳ. The Politics of State Formation, Nation Building and Modern Education = 65
4.1. Traditionalism Versus Modernization：The Confucianists, Tonghaks and the Modernizers = 65
4.2. The Politics and Education Before 1905 = 69
Modernization and the Politics of Modern Education = 69
The Modern Education System After the Kabo Reform = 76
4.3. The Politics and Education After 1905 = 80
Education and the Self-Strengthening Movement = 80
The Private School Law and the Textbook Policy = 84
Ⅴ. The Textbooks Ⅰ：The (Re)Construction of “the Ethnic” or Cultural Purity = 91
5.1. The Textbooks：1894-1910 = 91
5.2. Modern Nationhood and the Search for Cultural Purity = 94
The Redefinition of Civilization = 95
Reconstructing the Image of the State = 98
The Foundation Myths and the Common Origin = 102
The Construction of Heroes = 103
Ⅵ. The Textbooks Ⅱ：Constructing a Nation in “Their Own Image” = 109
6.1. Hegemony and the “Discursive Devices” = 109
Interpreting Western "Modernity" and Views on Imperialism = 110
In Search of a New Social Order：Capitalism, Social Classes, and the Nation = 112
Regenerating the Nation：Gender, Modernization and Nationalism = 115
6.2. Contradictions of Modernization : Nationalism Versus Asianism = 120
Ⅶ. Conclusion = 125
7.1. The Argument：Modernization, Nationalism, and Modern Education = 125
7.2. The Implications and the Legacy：Colonialism, National Identity and Education = 132
Bibliography = 137
Index = 157
