Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-12538-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmid, Andre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Monumental Story1: The Universalizing Winds of Civilization2: Decentering the Middle Kingdom and Realigning the East3: Engaging a Civilizing Japan4: Spirit, History, and Legitimacy5: Narrating the Ethnic Nation6: Peninsular Boundaries7: Beyond the PeninsulaEpilogue

Über Autor(innen)

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