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Reimagining the Nation in Nam-Seon Choi’s Manchurian Travelogue Song-mak-yeon-un-rok

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2017, (23), pp.9~45
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..23.201706.9
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : April 30, 2017
  • Accepted : June 6, 2017

Young Shil Yoon 1

1서울과학기술대학교

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ABSTRACT

This essay examines Nam-Seon Choi’s Song-mak-yeon-un-rok, a Manchurian travelogue, focusing on the following points: his visit to ‘safety collective farms,’ his trial for reviving the Dangun faith (Daejonggyo), and the differences between the three ‘nations’ and ‘three histories.’ By analyzing these points, I prove a multi-layered account of Choi’s ideas that appreciate their complexity beyond their simplification to anti-colonial nationalism or imperial Japanese ideology. In particular, I detail how his encounter with Korean immigrants in Manchuria influenced and transformed his ideas, which heightened Manchurian Koreans’ right to live, making Dangun faith a key juncture of the migrant nation throughout their long history of migration. Taking the perspective of the migrant nation, Choi regard ‘nationhood’ as a constantly increasing, disseminated and fluid identity beyond the geographic boundaries of states.

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