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제 목: Empire versus Nation: Japanese Intellectuals Grapple with the Contradictions of the Empire, 1919-1945

연 사: 김규현 (미국 University of California at Davis 사학과)

토 론: 장인성 (서울대학교 정치외교학부)
조관자 (서울대학교 일본연구소)

일 시: 2011년 4월 21일(목) 오후 4:00-6:00
장 소: 한양대학교 HIT 615호

주 최: 한양대학교 HK 트랜스내셔널인문학 사업단 / 비교역사문화연구소

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발표초록:

This working paper seeks to clarify not only practices but perceptions of imperialism and nationalism manifested in the interaction between the Japanese colonial empire and its colonies by focusing on the analyses and critiques of the existing colonial policies in Korea and Taiwan from a group of Japanese intellectuals, including economists, legal scholars and political scientists such as Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) as well as civilian historians and journalists such as Aoyagi Tsunatarō (1877-1932). Placing their discursive activities in the context of ideological changes in the post-WWI global environment and the concomitant shifting perceptions of colonialism in Japan, this paper hopes to illustrate how successfully and creatively these intellectuals attempted to grapple with the pre-1919 problems of Japanese colonialism. How were these thinkers and opinion-makers, for one, able to accommodate and/or acknowledge nationalism of the colonized Koreans and Taiwanese, while avoiding refutation of the imperialist project itself? Were these Japanese thinkers able to reconcile the contradictions between Japan as a multiethnic empire on the one hand and an ethnically and culturally exclusive nation-state on the other? These and other questions will be brought to the fore and examined through careful readings of the writings of these Japanese thinkers. Ultimately, I aim to argue for the centrality of colonial enterprises for a clear understanding of the antinomies of Japanese modernity in the 20th century.

연사약력:

Kyu Hyun Kim is Associate Professor of Japanese and Korean History at University of California, Davis. He has received a PhD in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University specializing in modern Japanese history, and has since been an Edwin O. Reischauer Postdoctoral Fellow and a recipient of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship. He is the author of The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan (Harvard East Asia Center Publication, 2009), in which he examines the development of parliamentarian and constitutional movement in late 1870s and early 1880s, against the existing view that Japan’s modernization was primarily a state-directed affair. He is currently working on the second book project, tentatively entitled Treasonous Patriots: Colonial Modernity, War Mobilization and the Problem of Identity in Korea, as well as an essay on the imperial tours of early Meiji Japan . Kim has written many articles on Japanese state-society relations, Korean colonial experience, Japanese popular culture and Korean cinema. He is Academic Adviser and Contributing Editor to www.koreanfilm.org, the oldest webpage devoted to Korean cinema.