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The Background of Lee Gwang-su’s Asylum in Shanghai

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2019, (15), pp.139-166
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2019.08.15.139
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : June 30, 2019
  • Accepted : August 10, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

Hongseop Cheong 1

1아주대학교

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ABSTRACT

It is the key to understanding the character of Chunwon Lee Gwang-su and the essence of his whole literature to explain the two following points. And these two points are organically interrelated centering on the essence of Lee Gwang-su’s character and literature. The first is the exact motive and time after he eloped with Heo Young-suk to Beijing, and The second is the relation between his writing during the two-year Asylum in Shanghai and his writing before and after the asylum. This treatise focuses on explaining the former. The former is a matter that can be clarified through scrutinizing the impact of the changes of the international situation after the end of World War I on November 11 in 1918, on the direction and the organization of Korean independence movement as well as Lee Gwang-su’s individual problem who could not but make a life choice for the intermarriage with Heo Young-suk. Lee eloped with Heo to Beijing for the intermarriage but returned to his country and took part in the 2·8 independence movement in Japan and carried out the asylum in Shanghai judging that Korean independence movement came to stand at the crossroads with taking the opportunity of dispatching the representatives to Paris Peace Conference. The latter is to examine the change and the continuity of his writing with the hypothesis that the essence of Lee’s writing before, during and after the asylum is the argument of racial reconstruction. This matter will be dealt with in the next treatise.

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