Racial contacts across the Pacific and the creation of<i>minzoku</i>in the Japanese empire

Hoshino, Noriaki

doi:10.1080/14649373.2016.1170948

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“…The political turmoil and the economic devastation in the second half of the 1940s, however, prevented medical scientists in Korea from conducting any blood-group research, including 18 On the way in which Japanese social scientists developed a racial theory based on the concept of minzoku (民族), see Hoshino (2016). 19 For the "Americanization" of South Korean cardiology in the 1950s and the 1960s, see DiMoia (2009). serological anthropology.…”

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Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Hyun

2019

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ArgumentAfter World War II, blood groups became a symbol of anti-racial science. This paper aims to shed new light on the post-WWII history of blood groups and race, illuminating the postcolonial revitalization of racial serology in South Korea. In the prewar period, Japanese serologists developed a serological anthropology of Koreans in tandem with Japanese colonialism. The pioneering Korean hematologist Yi Samyŏl , inspired by decolonization movements during the 1960s, excavated and appropriated colonial serological anthropology to prove Koreans as biologically independent from the Japanese. However, his racial serology of Koreans shared colonial racism with Japanese anthropology, despite his anti-colonial nationalism.

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“…On the way in which Japanese social scientists developed a racial theory based on the concept of minzoku (民族), see Hoshino (2016). serological anthropology.…”

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Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Hyun

2019

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RacializingChōsenjin: Science and Biological Speculations in Colonial Korea

Hyun

2019

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Recent literature on the history of medicine in colonial Korea has revealed that Japanese medical scientists studied Korean bodies to expose racial differences between the Japanese and Koreans and justify Japanese colonial rule. Previous scholars, however, have focused mainly on finding a connection between colonial medical research and eugenics. This article attempts to consider things as yet underinvestigated, in particular, the way in which medical research on Koreans emerged and was intertwined with Japanese colonialism in other ways, separate from contemporary eugenics projects. The article examines the emergence and development of what we now considered as “racial sciences”—physical anthropology, serological anthropology, and human genetics—with regard to the biological characteristics of Koreans. In doing so, it argues that biological speculations on Koreans originated as a subdiscipline of Japanese origin studies and resonated with a newly emerging type of colonial racism in colonial Korea—inclusionary racism. The article also presents the colonial scientific enterprise’s conclusion that Koreans were biologically heterogeneous, contradicting colonial Korean intellectuals’ assertion about Korean ethnic homogeneity. The use of Korean ethnic homogeneity as an ideological basis for nation building by two Korean governments meant that postcolonial Korean scientists had to seek a way to reconcile the colonial era’s “scientific conclusion” (biological heterogeneity) with the postcolonial era’s “politically approved” conceptualization (biological homogeneity). Therefore, regardless of whether it was trying to refute, appropriate, or revitalize the colonial legacy, biological research on Koreans in the postcolonial period was carried out under the framework that had been constructed by colonial racial sciences.

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Bibliography of Books, Chapters and Journal Articles on Colonialism and Imperialism Published in English in 2016

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2017

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

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Racial contacts across the Pacific and the creation ofminzokuin the Japanese empire

Cited by 3 publications

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Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

RacializingChōsenjin: Science and Biological Speculations in Colonial Korea

Bibliography of Books, Chapters and Journal Articles on Colonialism and Imperialism Published in English in 2016

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