CONTENTS
List of Illustrations = xi
List of Figures = xiii
List of Tables = xv
List of Abbreviations = xvii
Preface = xix
PART Ⅰ. SETTING
1. Class and State in Colonial Korea = 3
The Colonial State = 10
Rails Lead the Way = 12
Commerce = 16
A Mobilized Working Class = 25
The Resistance = 31
2. Lord and Peasant in Colonial Korea = 39
Colonial Agriculture = 41
The Korean Peasantry and the Rise of the Market = 48
The Korean Population Hemorrhage = 53
Mobilization and Revolt = 61
Conclusions = 66
3. August to September 1945 : Revolution and Reaction = 68
The End of the Japanese Colony = 69
The Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence = 71
The Korean People's Republic = 81
Opposition to the Republic = 91
Conclusions = 109
4. Crucible of Policy : Contending Forces in AmericanPlanningfor Korea, 1943-1945 = 101
March 1943 : Trusteeship Emergent = 104
The Cairo Conference : Independence " In Due Course" = 105
Yalta and Potsdam : Trusteeship in the Balance = 109
The First Postwar Actof Containment : The Partition of Korea in August 1945 = 117
Okinawa to Seoul : "The Scramble" = 122
Policy and Planning Before Departure = 126
Conclusions = 129
PART Ⅱ. POLITICS AT THE CENTER, 1945-1947
5. Forging aNew Order : The Entryof American Forcesand Policies Toward the Bureaucracy, the Police, and the Military = 135
Inch' \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o n and Seoul : New Friends and Enemies = 137
Reviving the Bureaucracy = 151
Agencies of Law and Order = 158
The Emergence of National Defense Forces = 169
6. Toward a Separate Southern Government = 179
The Return of the KPG and the "Governing Commission" = 179
Opposition to the Left = 193
Policies Toward Land and Rice = 201
Conclusions = 209
7. Internationalist Policy and NationalistLogic : Hardening at theCenter in 1946 = 214
Tutelage and Independence, Traitors and Patriots : TheTrusteeship Imbroglio = 215
Hodge in a Cocked Hat = 227
From the Joint Commission to SKIG = 238
American-Soviet Negotiations = 239
Opposition to the Left During and After the Joint Commission = 246
The Coalition Committee and the Interim Legislature = 252
Conclusions : " A Note of Querulousness" = 262
PART Ⅲ.KOREANS ANDAMERICANS INTHE PROVINCES, 1945-1947
8. An Overview of the People's Committees in the Provinces = 267
Population Change = 276
Transportation and Communications Ecology = 280
Land Relationships = 282
Geographical Location = 286
Land of Interregnum = 287
Political Antecedents and Indicators = 287
American Occupation of the Provinces = 289
9. The Fate of the Committees in the Provinces = 293
South Ch \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o lla Province = 295
North Ch \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o lla Province = 308
South Ky \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o ngsang Province = 316
North Ky \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o ngsang Province = 324
The Ch'ungch' \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o ng Provinces = 332
Kangw \mathord \tthbuildrel \scriptscriptstyle? o n and Kyo%unggi Provinces = 339
Cheju Island = 344
Conclusions = 348
10. The Autumn Harvest Uprisings = 351
The General Strike = 352
The Insurrection = 356
Methods of Suppression = 368
Causes of the Strikes and Uprisings = 371
Conclusions = 379
11. The North Wind = 382
The Soviet Occupation = 384
Politics from the Bottom Up = 391
Politics from the Top Down = 396
The Rise to Power of Kim Il Sung = 397
Centralization in the North = 403
Social Revolution = 414
United Front Policies = 419
The North Wind Blows South = 424
Conclusions = 426
12. Conclusions : Liberation Denied = 428
APPENDIXES = 445
NOTES = 455
BIBLIOGRAPHY = 565
SUBJECT INDEX = 593
NAME INDEX = 601
