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Cultural crossing the border of the colony from the performance of the Japanese version of Ch’un― Hyang Jeon(春香傳) by Jang, Hyeok―Ju(張赫宙)

Eun-mi, Cho 1

1東京外国語大学

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ABSTRACT

In this paper focuses attention on the Ch’un-Hyang Jeon that Shinkyo, a theater company, staged as a consequence of the cooperating movement by the figures related to theatrical plays in colonial Korea and imperial Japan, and discusses the possibility of encouraging the cultural interaction, crossing the cultural border and then creating a cooperative culture in imperial Japan. Firstly, In this paper surveys the activities of Chang Hyokchu and Murayama Tomoyoshi, the central figures of the movement, around the time Ch’un-Hyang Jeon was played in, and looks at what the play signified to them and what was the relationship. After that, The Future of Korean Culture, the discussion meeting which was held after the Ch’un-Hyang Jeon was staged and which was cause of Chang Hyokchu’s leaving Korean literary circles, in order to discuss the cultural interaction in imperial Japan. In this paper Finally, concludes through these examinations that the translation of Ch’un-Hyang Jeon into Japanese by Chang Hyokchu was an attempt to reject unilateral assimilation into Japan, trying to include Korea in her as a part of the land, and create cultural interaction by transplanting Korean culture to her under the colonial rule restricting his activities.

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