Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Preface -- Part 1: The Period of Annexation -- CHAPTER 1: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK -- CHAPTER 2: POLITICS OF ANNEXATION -- CHAPTER 3: CONSOLIDATION AND EXPANSION: THE 1910s -- CHAPTER 4: THE MARCH FIRST MOVEMENT (1919) -- CHAPTER 5: CHANGES IN PEACETIME: THE 1920s -- CHAPTER 6: BRIDGE BETWEEN JAPAN AND MANCHURIA:THE 1930s -- RETROSPECTIVE: KOREA THROUGH A WESTERN LOOKING GLASS -- Part 2: Role of the US and Other Powers -- CHAPTER 7: PROBLEMS IN PREVIOUS STUDIES ON LIBERATION AND DIVISION -- CHAPTER 8: U.S. POLICY TOWARD KOREA: RECOGNITION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT -- CHAPTER 9: CHINA'S KOREA POLICY: REASSERTION OF ITS POSITION AND KOREA -- CHAPTER 10344: BRITISH KOREA POLICY: RESTORATION OF THE EMPIRE AND THE KOREAN QUESTION -- CHAPTER 11: THE SOVIET UNION AND KOREA: REVISITING SOVIET INTERVENTION IN THE KOREAN QUESTION -- CHAPTER 12: A NEW LOOK AT THE TRUSTEESHIP -- EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION: AN ESTABLISHED DIVISION -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This important new study by one of Korea's leading historians focuses on the international relations of colonial Korea - from the Japanese rule of the peninsula and its foreign relations (1905-1945) to the ultimate liberation of the country at the end of the Second World War
