@article{ART003258735},
author={RONG FU},
title={An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin},
journal={인문논총 },
issn={2005-6222},
year={2025},
volume={68},
pages={239-267}
TY - JOUR
AU - RONG FU
TI - An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin
JO - 인문논총
PY - 2025
VL - 68
IS - null
PB - Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
SP - 239
EP - 267
SN - 2005-6222
AB - This study offers an annotative analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s short story Harbin, foregrounding the spaces and landscapes to address gaps in previous research. While earlier studies have mainly emphasized the author’s emotional interiority or critical consciousness as a colonial intellectual, few have explored the historical and cultural specificity of Harbin as a modern city within the literary text. This paper seeks to fill that imbalance by analyzing the specific forms and structures of the city and by investigating how these are represented and imbued with meaning in Lee Hyo-seok’s narrative.
Methodologically, the study combines annotative reading of Harbin and related essays, with historical materials, photographs, and maps. Harbin’s spatial structure is analyzed hierarchically at the levels of district, street, and specific site. Within the text, locations such as districts, streets, buildings, consulates, and the yacht club serve not merely as backgrounds but as crucial mediators reflecting the author’s temporal consciousness and his emotional stance. Annotative interpretation enables the restoration of the texture and atmosphere of the observed landscapes , while also offering new possibilities beyond abstract or symbolic readings that have dominated earlier scholarship.
Chapter 2 examines the formation and international character of Harbin as a modern city. Chapter 3 analyzes the transformation of its major streets and their hybrid nature as landscapes of modern experience. Chapter 4 focuses on the consulates and the yacht club, where imperial power and modern civilization in the narrative, juxtaposing literary descriptions with historical cartography and photographic evidence. Chapter 5 synthesizes these findings to clarify the multilayered significance and literary representation of Harbin.
In conclusion, Harbin may be understood as a work in which a colonial Korean intellectual experiences the upheavals of global modernity and confronts existential reflection amid the unfamiliarities of a modern city. This study not only refines our understanding of Lee Hyo-seok’s literary modernity but also provides methodological implications for future research on the interaction between literary texts and urban space.
KW - Lee Hyo-seok;Harbin;Annotative Study;Modern Urban Space;Hybridity;Existential;Reflection
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RONG FU. (2025). An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin. 인문논총 , 68, 239-267.
RONG FU. 2025, "An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin", 인문논총 , vol.68, pp.239-267.
RONG FU "An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin" 인문논총 68 pp.239-267 (2025) : 239.
RONG FU. An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin. 2025; 68 239-267.
RONG FU. "An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin" 인문논총 68(2025) : 239-267.
RONG FU. An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin. 인문논총 , 68, 239-267.
RONG FU. An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin. 인문논총 . 2025; 68 239-267.
RONG FU. An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin. 2025; 68 239-267.
RONG FU. "An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin" 인문논총 68(2025) : 239-267.
