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

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