Person1891 – 1965

An Jae-hong

General secretary of the Singanhoe who led the Joseon Studies movement with Jeong In-bo and others, and after liberation was vice-chairman of the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence

As chief editor and later president of the Chosun Ilbo in the 1920s, he used its editorials for the national movement. In 1927 he helped found the Singanhoe and became its general secretary. In 1934 he launched the Joseon Studies movement with Jeong In-bo and others by publishing the collected works of Jeong Yak-yong. He was imprisoned nine times, including in the Korean Language Society incident. After liberation he was vice-chairman of the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence and head of civil administration under the US military government, advocating a "new nationalism". He was taken to the North during the Korean War.

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1
1927 – 1931Singanhoeparticipant
Uncompromising nationalists and socialists joined to found the Singanhoe, the largest legal national organization of the colonial period.
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1934Jindan Society and Korean Studiesparticipant
Yi Byeong-do, Son Jin-tae and others formed the Jindan Society and its journal to pursue positivist, document-based history. In the same years came the Joseon Studies movement of Jeong In-bo and An Jae-hong and Baek Nam-un’s socio-economic history.

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Yi Gwang-su1892 – 1950
Drafted the February Eighth Declaration and wrote the novel "Mujeong"; argued for home rule in "National Policy" and later collaborated with the Japanese authorities (listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators)

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Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949
The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle