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The Representation of Dalian in Modern Japan : A colonial city as a method

  • 日本硏究
  • 2014, (36), pp.381-395
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 20, 2014

Lee, soo yeol 1

1한국해양대학교

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ABSTRACT

In modern Japan, two different images about Dalian are co-existing: a modern cityand a colonial city. Those images of Dalian represent an aspect of Dalian as a colonialseaport town built in the 20thcentury. Dalian has been under the domination of Greatpowers including England, Russia and Japan, one after another, and in the process,it became a representative colonial seaport town in East Asia where different ethnicgroups co-existed. Firstly, I will look at Dalian’s modern history. This can be saidto be the history of ordeal in a sense that the city of Dalian has passed through thecontacts and conflicts with different ethnic groups. And secondly, I will look at apossibility of a new identity which was born in the midst of the history. Multi-cultural society of Dalian was another feature of colonial city of Dalianresulting from the history of Imperialism. Diaspora people or marginal men, who werecreated in the midst of political chaos, were definitely the tragic existence as wellas the victim of history. At the same time, they relativized the logic of a nation-statethat regards the equation of the ethnic origin with political identity as natural. In thissense, Dalian, a colonial seaport city built in 20thcentury, has a significance as amethod to imagine the post-modern times.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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