Fashioning Modernity: Changing Meanings of Clothing in Colonial Korea

'Modernity' encompasses a multitude of concepts and definitions. This article take a material marker of modernity - clothing - and uses it as an analytic prism to examine the changes in social, economic, and political arenas and discourses of Korea 's colonial period (1910-1945). I an...

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Published inJournal of international and area studies Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 75 - 93
Main Author Lynn, Hyung Gu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Seoul Institute of International Affairs Graduate School of International Studies Seoul National University 01.01.2004
School of International and Area Studies, Seoul National University
Subjects
Area studies
Capitalism
Cities
Clothes
Colonialism
Cultural Change
Cultural identity
Dresses
Economic structure
Ethnic Identity
Fashion
Group identity
Identity
Industrial development
Korea
Language
Modernity
Modernization
Museums
North Korea
Oppression
Social differentiation
Social structures
South Korea
Studies
Suits
Uniforms
Upper class
Korea
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Summary:'Modernity' encompasses a multitude of concepts and definitions. This article take a material marker of modernity - clothing - and uses it as an analytic prism to examine the changes in social, economic, and political arenas and discourses of Korea 's colonial period (1910-1945). I analyze the meanings of clothing in specific contexts such as: the contemporary re-association of Korean ethnic identity with ' traditional' clothes; the beginnings of change in the language of clothes; the utility and limits of the standard colonial oppression-resistance binary; transformations in socio-economic structure; and the diffusion of visual technology and constructions of gender in multiplying sartorial selection and meaning.
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ISSN:1226-8550