[KS] Re: Query: Vietnam and Japanese Collaborators

[Frank Hoffmann]

>1) In his 1995 work, "The Abacus and The Sword: The Japanese Penetration Of
>Korea, 1895, 1910 Peter Duus writes: "Much more research needs to be done,
>particularly in Korean sources, to find out just who collaborated with the
>Japanese authorities.  For obvious reasons, this line of investigation has
>not been pursued by Korean scholars, and so far it has not attracted the
>attention of Japanese researchers". (220, note: 36)


.... one of Duus' flops in this book. Sounds so logical, but is entirely wrong.

In her posting Jacqueline used the word "simplistic" a lot: I must say
that, going through some of the many volumes on collaboration published in
Korea during the 80s and 90s, I cannot help but apply "simplistic" rather
to these works. These are all, at least all works I have seen,
"get-the-record-straight" works ...; mark the traitors and to hell with
them! Yes, we have lots of lots of studies on collaboration in Korea, but
most are biographical or simple listings of and quotes from pro-Japanese
materials. The very first such works appeared as early as 1945 and 1946 (at
the time of the trials), and they don't seem so much different from what
came out in the 1980s. Anyone has seen any good study about collaboration
in Korea (apart from parts of Koen De Ceuster's diss.?).

Frank
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