Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919

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Columbia University Press, 2002 - 372 من الصفحات

Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representation, narrative, and rhetoric in the construction of public sentiment, Andre Schmid traces the genealogies of cultural assumptions and linguistic turns evident in Korea's major newspapers during the social and political upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Newspapers were the primary location for the re-imagining of the nation, enabling readers to move away from the conceptual framework inherited from a Confucian and dynastic past toward a nationalist vision that was deeply rooted in global ideologies of capitalist modernity. As producers and disseminators of knowledge about the nation, newspapers mediated perceptions of Korea's precarious place amid Chinese and Japanese colonial ambitions and were vitally important to the rise of a nationalist movement in Korea.

 

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The Universalizing Winds of Civilization
23
Internal Disorder External Calamities
24
Globalizing the National and Nationalizing the Global
32
The Pundits of the Nation
38
The Eyes and Ears of the Nation
47
Decentering the Middle Kingdom and Realigning the East
55
Demoting China
56
Authentic Culture Pure Identities
60
Narrating the Ethnic Nation
171
National Etymologies
172
Legitimacy as a National Narrative
175
History as Genealogy
180
The State of History
188
From Man to God
192
Peninsular Boundaries
199
Bordering China
201

The Language of Nationalism
64
From King to Emperor
72
A National Flag
78
A Lost Korean and Eastern Civilization
80
Peace and Unity in a Racially Defined East
86
The Disintegration of Eastern Solidarity
92
Engaging a Civilizing Japan
101
The Authority of Japan
103
A Nationalist Dialogue
113
Images of the yangban
121
The Dangers of Sadaejuui
129
Colonial Denouement
136
Spirit History and Legitimacy
139
A Spirited Nation
140
From Ancient Imperial Myths to Modern Colonizing Myths
146
Contentious Histories
154
Japanese Colonialism on the International Stage
160
A Public Border
211
The Decline of Geomancy and Mount Paektu
216
Beyond the Peninsula
224
A Korean Manchuria
226
Irredentist Voices
233
The Diasporic Nation
236
Turning the Nation Inside Out
240
Custodians of the Nation
246
Epilogue
253
Language Purity
257
Toward a Postcolonial History
261
Northward Gaze
270
Notes
279
Bibliography
337
Index
359
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الصفحة 21 - However, the whole process has now stalled and some very difficult issues remain. Given the intensity and duration of the disputes between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK), any kind of resolution will demand a great deal of time and patience, and a willingness to compromise. However, there seem to be some problems with the very process in both the ROK and the United States. Many commentators in Seoul have argued that the North is receiving too many...
الصفحة 6 - Our position, however, is that it is the content of nationalist ideology, its claims about what is possible and what is legitimate, which gives specific shape to its politics. The latter cannot be understood without examining the former.

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Andre Schmid is associate professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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