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Modern Korea and Its Others - Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity (Hardcover)
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Modern Korea and Its Others - Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
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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, as well as historians of the colonial/modern era
more generally.
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