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Mark E. CAPRIO, Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea 1910-1945 . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. x + 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-295-98900-6 (hbk.); 978-0-295-98901-3 (pbk.). $75.00, £58.00 (hbk.); $35.00, £20.99 (pbk.)

Mark E. CAPRIO, Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea 1910-1945 . Seattle: University... ‘Assimilation’ encompasses a complex and varied range of practices, goals, and measures, and engenders associations with a host of synonyms. The term can be assessed through multiple lenses: socioeconomic measures, such as income, occupation, and educational achievement; spatial concentration in residential patterns; second language acquisition and first language retention; and naturalization rates and intermarriage rates. In addition, there is the issue how or if the concept might differ from similar spaces occupied by its relatives, ‘acculturation’, ‘socialization’, ‘integration’, and ‘incorporation’. Some of the implied differences in nuance between these terms can often be unclear; moreover, the issue of the extent to which some of the divisions within each term are applicable to their synonyms remains. For example, the common distinction between ‘socialization’ from ‘below’ or ‘above’ may not be as common in discussions of ‘incorporation’ or ‘assimilation’, especially in colonial contexts, as the implicit assumption might be that all assimilation is from ‘above’. Into this rather daunting conceptual morass jumps Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea . Challenging the common distinctions between assimilation processes in colonial contexts with those involved in nation-building, the author analyzes the factors that drove the emergence, application, and failure of Japanese assimilation policies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

Mark E. CAPRIO, Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea 1910-1945 . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. x + 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-295-98900-6 (hbk.); 978-0-295-98901-3 (pbk.). $75.00, £58.00 (hbk.); $35.00, £20.99 (pbk.)

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852011X611427
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‘Assimilation’ encompasses a complex and varied range of practices, goals, and measures, and engenders associations with a host of synonyms. The term can be assessed through multiple lenses: socioeconomic measures, such as income, occupation, and educational achievement; spatial concentration in residential patterns; second language acquisition and first language retention; and naturalization rates and intermarriage rates. In addition, there is the issue how or if the concept might differ from similar spaces occupied by its relatives, ‘acculturation’, ‘socialization’, ‘integration’, and ‘incorporation’. Some of the implied differences in nuance between these terms can often be unclear; moreover, the issue of the extent to which some of the divisions within each term are applicable to their synonyms remains. For example, the common distinction between ‘socialization’ from ‘below’ or ‘above’ may not be as common in discussions of ‘incorporation’ or ‘assimilation’, especially in colonial contexts, as the implicit assumption might be that all assimilation is from ‘above’. Into this rather daunting conceptual morass jumps Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea . Challenging the common distinctions between assimilation processes in colonial contexts with those involved in nation-building, the author analyzes the factors that drove the emergence, application, and failure of Japanese assimilation policies

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