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The Military Flag and Science:Searching a New Direction in Mission of the Keijo Imperial University after Manchuria incident

Jung, Joon Young 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article attempts to examine the implications of changing direction in Mission of the Keijo Imperial University(京城帝國大學, KIU) after Manchuria incident, through the formation and activities of Manmou Cultural Research Society(滿蒙文化硏究會, MCRS) and Tairiku Cultural Research Society(大陸文化硏究會, TCRS). MCRS(and TCRS as the successor of MCRS) aims for knowledge production of the Continent which is the area including Manchukuo(滿洲國) and Inner Mongolia from a scientific perspective, and tries to distribute the wide knowledge and various information acquired by its academic researches to the colonial society in conformity with the national policy of Japanese Empire. Effectively, they functioned as the research units of the KIU, because the president of KIU was spearheading the organizing of MCRS and TCRS, and major academics of KIU participated in their activities. Then, why did the KIU organize them under the circumstance where the KIU was searching a new direction as ‘the only Imperial University in continental Asia’ and What did the KIU expect through the formation and activities of them? This article deals with these questions.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.