Volume and Number
Studies on East Asia, Volume 14
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Publication Date
1979
Managing Editor
Henry G. Schwarz
Publisher
Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
City
Bellingham, Washington
Description
The Korean Peasant at the Crossroads, by Willard D. Keim: Since the advent of written history at least some four millennia ago, the world has been to a large degree a peasant world. There are still nations among those newly independent since World War II with 80 percent of their populations living in the countryside. And it has not been so many decades ago that the major nations of Europe were composed predominantly of a peasantry and its concomitant technology. The United States crossed the rural-urban divide of 50 percent living in rural areas in about 1920, Italy in the 1940s, and Korea in the early 1970s. Were it not for the industrial revolution, which originated in Europe and has extended its impact around the globe, the world would still consist of urban centers surrounded by vast oceans of countryside, villages, and peasant-tillers. It is certainly no news to persons living in the United States, where less than ten percent of the population is at present actively engaged in raising the crops needed to feed its expanded population, and to some of the rest of the world that the age of the peasant, the even pace of life in semi-isolated villages, is gone forever.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/qvry-5w84
Publisher (Digital Object)
Resources made available by the Special Collections, Heritage Resources and Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Type
Text
OCLC Number
4775811
Geographic Coverage
Korea
Disciplines
East Asian Languages and Societies
Keywords
Korean peasants, Rural-urban divide
Document Type
Book
Recommended Citation
Keim, Willard D., "The Korean Peasant at the Crossroads: A Study in Attitudes" (1979). East Asian Studies Press. 13.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/13
Rights
Copyright 1979 the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Language
English
Format
application/pdf