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Manchuria․Popular Fiction․East Asian Discourse -On Cho, Heun-Pa’s faction Manchukuo-

Cho, Sung-Myeon 1

1인하대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Cho Heun Pa’s Manchukuo(滿洲國, 1970) is a kind of faction dealing with the Puppet nation Manchuria, the last emperor of Ching Àixīnjuéluó Pǔyí, and the modern history of East Asia from 1908 to 1945. It is noteworthy that Cho wrote and published these story 18 years earlier than Bernardo Bertolucci’s famous film The Last Emperor, regardless of the quality of the work to have principal political events and figures of modern East Asia during the 1st and 2nd World War. However, Cho’s Manchukuo could not be defined exactly Manchu story. Because it is title only-not Manchuria’s story but the East Asia’s politic and historical mishaps. Despite its title Manchukuo, the faction eventually would become popular fiction to meet the needs of adult male readers and monthly journalism through substituting and appropriating a gossip story for Àixīnjuéluó Pǔyí & Manchuria. Above all, we think the biggest problem of the novel to avoid the stories related to the tyrant president Park Jong Hee himself & his staffs of the regime from the Military Academy of Manchukuo and to prelude the anti-Japanese armed struggle of the korean leftists in chinese East Asia. There are three problems with this novel-that is empirical error, arbitrary interpretation, and pandering to the tastes of readers. But this novel has meant to represent Manchuria as the introspective object of the East Asian countries and to bring light Pǔyí as the epitome of modern East Asian history, depart from the limits of Korean modern novels to be tied with the feature of immigration’s and refugees’ literature.

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