Download or read book Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation written by Yoonmi Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the failure thesis which maintains that subsequent Japanese colonization is an indication that the early modernization process in Korea was unsuccessful.