Under the Black Umbrella by Hildi Kang PAPERBACK 9780801472701

Under the Black Umbrella\nby Hildi Kang\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hildi Kang\nTitle: Under the Black Umbrella\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Colonialism and imperialism\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2005\nISBN-13: 9780801472701\nISBN-10: 0801472709\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the black umbrella of Japanese colonial rule. Existing descriptions of the colonial period tend to focus on extremes: imperial r.