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Lee Gwang-su’s Argument of Racial Reconstruction before and after the Asylum in Shanghai

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2019, (16), pp.11-48
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2019.12.16.11
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : November 15, 2019
  • Accepted : December 10, 2019
  • Published : December 31, 2019

Hongseop Cheong 1

1아주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This treatise inquired into the central idea of Lee Gwang-su’s main works before and after his asylum in Shanghai focusing on the character of the Asylum from the viewpoint of the argument of Reconstruction. It was the foundation of this treatise and the previous one to infer that his abrupt returning to home and going to Japan and participating in ‘the 2․8 Independence Movement’ and the asylum in Shanghai may also have not been done with enough preparation because the elopement with Heo Young-suk had been performed with a very impulsive decision. This inference makes another inference possible that the essence of the idea which he had had firmly since the second studying period in Japan was kept consistently even during and after the asylum. With these inferences as the hypothesis this treatise considered the essence of his idea before, during and after the asylum from the viewpoint of Reconstruction and confirmed the fact that the continuity of the essence was consistently kept and even intensified in spite of some changes due to different situations. In short, it was confirmed that the consistent central idea of his writing was the argument of racial reconstruction since the second studying period in Japan, including “the 2․8 declaration of Independence”, “the Petition for Calling of National Rally”, “Reconstruction” which he wrote in Independence Newspaper in the period of the asylum, and many works just before his returning from the asylum and the “For the Reconstruction of Korean Traits” after the asylum.

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