Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781138590625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 218 str.

Vladimir Tikhonov

Opis

This book explores the way in which modern Korea perceived its closest geographic neighbours, namely China, Japan and Russia. Introducing new sources presented in English for the first time, and including themes such as race, global revolution, and gender, it will be of interest to students and scholars of Korean, East Asian and Russian history.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Russia – an Oriental Occident? 1. Russia as a Threat and a Hope in Korean Intellectual Life, 1880s to 1945 2. The Joys of Utopia, the Sorrows of Exile: Russia, Russian and the USSR in Korean Colonial-Period Literature Part II: China – Centre-turned-Periphery-turned Hope for the Future 3. The Other to learn from at a Distance: China in the pre-1910 Modern Korean Press 4. Aliens in our Midst and the Hope for the Future: the Image of China and Chinese in 1910s-30s’ Korea Part III: Japan – Model and Conqueror, eternally Alien? 5. To Learn from Japan in Order to Overcome it: Japan as the Significant Other in the Korean Intellectual Life of the 1900s-1920s 6. The Assimilation which Never Happened: Korean-Japanese Mixed Marriages in Colonial Korea 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Vladimir Tikhonov is a professor of Korean and East Asian studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Oslo University, Norway. He recently published Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea: the Beginnings (2010).