“Ambitious Policies and Ideal Colonists: Building a Colonial City in Iri, North Jeolla Province.” Clio’s Scroll
For my BA thesis as a history major at the University of California at Berkeley, I wrote concerning the formation and development of a colonial city in Iri (modern-day Iksan in North Jeolla Province). I detailed this process of urban genesis via the lens of a Japanese settler in the city, Ōhashi Sokujō, whose written account served as a major