• 수완나부미
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.7-33
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• 2023

Numerous journalistic and literary writings about the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian awardee of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913), appeared in newspapers of colonial Vietnam. His stop-over in Saigon (Cochin China) in 1929 created political discussions in contemporary journalism and other publications. Tagore and his visit to Saigon inspired Vietnamese intellectuals and stirred diverse anti-colonial thought. This paper examines writings and images about Tagore in colonial Vietnamese journals and newspapers, reconstructing how intellectuals recalled and imagined him as they also engaged with anti-colonial thought, particularly anti-colonial modernity and anti-capitalism. Contextualizing the reception of Tagore in colonial projects of modernizing the Vietnamese colony, the paper argues that discussions inspired by Tagore's visit embody contemporary nationalist ideology.

• Architectural research
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2015

So far, the Japanese exhibitions in the colonized Korea, especially the Joseon Industrial Exhibition of 1915, haven't been studied sufficiently; they have been understood mainly as political propaganda to legitimize the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula; many scholars have agreed that Japan highlighted material developments in Korea under the benevolent guidance of Japan by displaying strong visual contrasts between the modern and the traditional. So, they only acknowledge colonial modernity; this perspective regards Western forms as the sole expression of architectural modernity, not only in the exhibition but also in the colonial space and time. However, to be on a par with the West, Japan started to develop a series of historical narratives in searching for its historical origins in Asia, and it also carried out archaeological investigations in the Korean peninsula around the early 1900s. I argue that the developed historical narratives with traditional Korean artworks and architecture (i.e. the shared historical origins between Japan and Korea) influence the architectural conditions of the 1915 exhibition. And, the status of traditional Korean architecture in the Japanese exhibition expresses architectural modernity in terms of showing historical progress.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제42권
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• pp.23-46
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• 2016

이 글에서는 식민지 근대 조선의 영토 내에서 존재하였던 헤테로토피아적 공간에 주목하였다. 근대 질서에서 보기에는 이질적이나 당대 사회의 희망을 구현했던 헤테로토피아를 찾아서, 그 공간들이 가졌던 실제적 특징을 파악하였다. 또한 이런 헤테로토피아적 공간을 식민지 근대 지식인들이 담론화하는 방식을 살펴보며, 근대적 지배 체제에 대한 당대의 또 다른 시각을 알아보았다. 삼일독립운동이 시작되었던 탑동공원과 정신병동인 동팔호실은 근대적 관점에서 가장 이질적이면서도 그로테스크한 공간이었다. 그곳은 근대성이 실패한 공간들로 표상되었다. 하지만 이 공간 속에서는 독립에 대한 발화가 공공연하게 이루어졌으며, 이는 이 공간들이 당대 사회의 희망을 담아내는 유토피아로 기능하게 하였다. 그렇지만 당대의 지배 체제는 이 공간 속에서 이루어지는 발화를 괴담으로 간주하며 폄하했다. 원인을 알 수 없는 이야기인 괴담은 근대의 지식 체계 그리고 이를 바탕으로 한 당대의 지배 체제가 불완전함을 드러내었다. 체제의 불완전함은 일상에 대한 불안을 야기하였다. 이처럼 이 글에서는 헤테로토피아를 괴담으로 왜곡하여 전달하였던 담론화의 방식을 통해 식민지 근대의 질서가 가지고 있던 불안의 한 측면을 살펴보았다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.301-318
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• 2006

본 논문은 한국 경제가 식민지 경제 체제로 이행되는 과정에서 식민지 도시 경성의 상업공간이 도시 내부에서 어떻게 식민지 근대성을 표출시키고 있었는가를 상업회사를 중심으로 분석하고자 하였다. 경성의 상업회사에 대한 1920년대와 1930년대의 시계열적 분석을 보면, 상업회사의 수와 규모 면에서 본정2정목의 성장이 활발하였다. 민족별로 보면 일본인 상업회사 수는 본정1정목에서 가장 많이 증가하였고, 규모 면에서는 황금정2정목의 상업회사가 크게 성장하였다. 조선인 상업회사의 변화를 보면, 종로2정목이 회사 수나 규모 면에서도 가장 많이 성장하였다. 일제강점기 경성에서 일본인의 상업활동이 활발하고 규모가 켰지만 조선 상인들은 이에 대해 대처하려고 노력하였다. 조선 상인들의 근대적 경영 방식의 회사 설립과 운영 등을 시도하였고 종로2정목의 화신연쇄점을 비롯한 여러 상업회사가 비교적 규모가 큰 상업회사를 유지하면서 근대성을 담지하고 있었다. 그러나 상업회사의 규모에서 조선인 회사는 일본인 회사에 비해 영세하였고 상업회사를 중심으로 분석한 식민지 도시 경성 상업공간의 식민지 근대성은 상업활동과 상업공간의 민족별 격리와 조선인 상업자본의 영세성이라는 이중구조를 보였다.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.489-500
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• 2018

Since the late 19 century, the Choseon dynasty forcibly opened the door to western countries, including Japan. In addition, cultural propagation called 'modernity' caused subtle changes in dietary life. Based on the theory of colonial dual society, this study examined the dietary modernity in Kyungsung (mid 1930s~early 1940s) when 50 years had passed since the Open-Door policy. Three films, (1934), (1936) and (1941) (those made in 1930s~1940s) were analyzed. Twenty six scenes [14 scenes from , five scenes from , and seven scenes from ] related to the dietary life from films were chosen and classified according three criteria (degree of modernization, main influential countries, and benefit groups from modernization). The degree of modernization of all films was more than 80%. The average proportion of the countries that affected modernization were western (35%), western-Japan (28%) and Japan (20%). Approximately 33, 53 and 14% of the upper, middle, lower classes, respectively, benefited from diet modernization. The main places where modernized dietary culture could be enjoyed were cafes, western restaurants, tea rooms, and hotels. The main food or beverages that were considered as modernized dietary culture were liquor (especially beer), coffee, and western meals. People in Kyungsung in the mid 1930s~early 1940s experienced modernity in dietary life differently according to the social classes and these culture changes were generally accepted as a symbol of modernity.

• 한국의사학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2023

This paper describes the transformation of the knowledge system of Korean medicine in the early 20th-century colonial context of the 1920s in terms of 'identity formation'. At the time, newly introduced Western medicine was the dominant form of medical knowledge due to strong support from the colonial government but had did not enjoy popular support from the general public especially when compared to Korean medicine. Furthermore, the Japanese colonial government needed to utilize Korean medicine practitioners' labor due to a serious shortage of Western medicine doctors. In this context, Dongseo uihak youi (Essentials of Eastern and Western Medicines) provides an overview of the role of Korean medicine practitioners in the colonial healthcare system of the time. The book contains a figure of a 'modern' Korean medicine practitioner working within a healthcare system influenced by colonial modernity. The association of Korean medicine doctors at that time not only published Dongseo uihak youi but also attempted to establish a school specializing in both Eastern and Western medicines or integrated Korean medicine, which would produce "the Chosŏn doctors" (Chosŏn ŭisa) on a par with doctors trained in Western medicine. Although their attempts did not materialized, they provide a clue as to how and in what direction Korean medicine pursued its identity in the 1920s.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.147-167
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• 2014

The urban modernity that became an irresistible model for elites in Asia in the decades before and after 1900 was far from being gender-neutral. It represented an exceptional peak of patriarchy in its exclusion of respectable middle class women from the work force, from ownership and control of property and from politics. Marriage was indissoluble and the wife's role in the male-headed nuclear family was to care for and educate the abundant children she produced. Puritan religious values underlined the perils for women of falling outside this pattern of dependence on the male. Though upheld as modern and civilized, this ideal was in particularly striking contrast with the pre-colonial Southeast Asian pattern of economic autonomy and balance between women and men, and the relative ease of female-initiated divorce. Although attractive to many western-educated Southeast Asian men, including religious reformers determined to 'save' and domesticate women, urban respectability of this type was a poor fit for women accustomed to dominant roles in commerce and marketing, and at least equal ones in production. Southeast Asian relative failure in the high colonial era to adapt to the modern market economy may also have a gendered explanation. We should not be surprised that patriarchy and puritanism became more important in Southeast Asia as it urbanized in the late 20th Century, since this was echoing the European experience a century earlier. The question remains how far Southeast Asia could retain its relatively balanced gender pattern in face of its eventual rapid urbanization and commercial development.

• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.87-101
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• 2015

From the 1920s to 1945, East Asia experienced radical social change with the introduction of new fashion styles, and new ways of thinking, from the West. The emergence of a new generation of "new women" educated in modern schools was part of this phenomenon, and functioned as a trend-setting influence in East Asian society. In schools, education in dressmaking, sewing, and home economics were important parts of female education. Adopting a new fashion style is, by necessity, accompanied by the new technology of dressmaking. Given that ready-made clothing was not generally available, dressmaking education also served to introduce a new material culture. In Korea and Taiwan under Japanese colonization, the greater part of school curricula and textbooks mirrored those in Japan, which enabled these countries to develop and adopt transnational styles as well as local styles. This research explores the transition of women's fashion in East Asia in modern and colonial conditions from the 1920s to the 1940s by analysing curricula and textbooks on dressmaking in comparison with the prevailing styles in each region. This is expected to suggest the impact of modernity in East Asia and the transnational styles of fashion in colonial Korea and Taiwan, as well as Japan, developed within the local culture. Colonial conditions are also discussed in terms of their impact and limitations in the transition of styles.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제44권8호
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• pp.143-150
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• 2006

Life Science or Home Economics has its own history of scholarship. In South Korea, the School of Home Economics was regarded as the best school of 'producing best brides' in the early stage of its academic history. Since the 1980s when South Korean society went through a speedy economic growth with development of culture and service industry, the school was transformed to educating highly professional career women in the field of industry which deals with everyday lives. As an applied science in nature, the school of Home Economics has had a heavy emphasis on engineering the familial and social life. It also has heavily depended on imported theories and statistical researches. In the crisis of familial and social disintergration, the role of School of Home Economics needs to be redefined. Reexamination of the premises of Home Economics and methodology is necessary. Decolonializaton of the scholarship in the changed condition of global capitalism is particularly urgent in the late modern era of reflexion.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.617-628
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• 2018

The aim of this essay is to discuss the relationship between Korean literature and Korean intellectual scenes. Since its first introduction to the local context, literature as a genre has served as a field in which colonial and post-colonial intellectuals have attempted to win the accreditation of Western enlightenment. Literature has been regarded as a crucial instrument of liberal arts and education in Korea. Literature has functioned as a social movement in Korea since its inception. During the colonial period, radical intellectuals and literary writers published essays and articles in literary journals. This status as a social movement is still a distinctive characteristic of Korean literature. From the outset, Korean literature has functioned as an enlightenment project for cultural development. As such, Korean literature retains a political meaning of "literariness," which reshuffles the hierarchy of the sensible and creates novelty against given aesthetic regimes. As a result, in the process these regimes are thereby de-purified of their status as purely aesthetic movements; their perspectives thereby come into contact with other discourses and practices outside the art world. This essay argues that as a genre, Korean literature always functions as "world literature" in Korean intellectual scenes.