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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Contributor(s): Schmid, Andre (Author)

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ISBN: 0231125399     ISBN-13: 9780231125390
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2002
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Annotation: "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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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 20th Century
- History | Asia - Korea
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism
Dewey: 951.902
LCCN: 2001058377
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Lexile Measure: 1690(Not Available)
Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute (Columbia Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.3" W x 9" L (1.16 lbs) 480 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Chinese
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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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