Modern Korea and its others : perceptions of the neighbouring countries and Korean modernity / Vladimir Tikhonov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tikhonov, V. M. (Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich), 1973- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge advances in Korean studies ; 33.

Routledge advances in Korean studies ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonial influence.

Social change.

History.

Public opinion.

Korea--Foreign relations--1864-1910.

Korea.

International relations.

Korea--Foreign relations--20th century.

Russia--Foreign public opinion, Korean.

Russia.

China--Foreign public opinion, Korean.

China.

Japan--Foreign public opinion, Korean.

Japan.

Public opinion--Korea--History.

Social change--Korea--History.

Nationalism--Korea--History.

Nationalism.

Korea--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Korea--Colonial influence.

Diplomatic relations.

Public opinion, Korean.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"The period spanning the 1880s to 1945 was a crucially important formative time for Korea, during which understandings of modernity were largely shaped by the images of Korea's neighbours to the east, west and north. China, Japan and Russia represented at some moments modern threats, but also denoted a range of alternative modernity possibilities, and ultimately provided a model for Korea's pre-colonial and colonial modernity. This book explores the way in which modern Korea perceived its geographic neighbours from the 1890s until 1945. It shows that Korea's modern nationalism was at the same time internationalist in its orientation, as the vision of Korea's ideal place in the world and brighter national future was often linked to the examples (positive and negative), threats (perceived and real) and allies abroad. Exploring the importance of the international knowledge and experience for the formation of the Korean nationalist paradigms, it offers nuance to the existing picture of the international connections and environment of the Korean national movements. It shows that the picture of Japan inside the anti-Japanese independence movement of the colonial period was more complicated than simple hatred of the invaders: modern achievements of Japan were admired even by anti-colonial nationalists as a possible model for Korea. The book also demonstrates the extent to which Chinese and Soviet revolutions influenced the thinking of modern Korean intellectuals across the whole ideological spectrum. Introducing new sources presented in English for the first time, and including themes such as race and ethnicity, global revolution, and gender, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Korean, East Asian and Russian history"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Russia : an oriental occident?

Russia as a threat and a hope in Korean intellectual life, 1880s to 1945

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

The other to learn from at a distance : China in the pre-1910 modern Korean press

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?

To learn from Japan in order to overcome it : Japan as the significant other in the Korean intellectual life of the 1900s-1920s

The assimilation which never happened : Korean-Japanese mixed marriages in colonial Korea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781138855526

1138855529

OCLC:

926312611

Publisher Number:

99965526916