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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