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Korean Historian’s Memory of Manchuria and Manchurian State

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2019, (28), pp.51~90
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..28.201910.51
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : September 20, 2019
  • Accepted : October 28, 2019
  • Published : October 31, 2019

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1한림대학교 일본학연구소

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ABSTRACT

This paper traces the formation and change of Manchuria as a collective memory of Korean academia immediately after liberation to the start of the 21st century. This emotional space is remembered constituted within Korea’s national narrative of Manchuria’s history. In 1945, liberation and division subsumed Manchurian experiences within the sphere of an individual’s nostalgia. In the fierce system’s level competition with Korea-Japan talks and between the two Koreas, Manchuria became a space memorialized within memories of political rife and resistance between nations. The state restored and reconstructed Manchurian memory as collective memory, operating through meticulous selection and exclusion and based on principles related to anti-communism and anti-Japanese nationalism aimed at concrescence. However, in the late 1980s, the democratization of Korean society and the dissolution of the Cold War system at the global level resulted in a lack of uniformity and cracks in a unified Manchurian memory. The new gaze is one of hybridity, envisioning Manchuria of the past as a space of harmony. Anti-communism and anti-Japanese nationalism, however, remain active elements of recall in the national memory of Manchuria—an essential space in the anamnesis of national recollection of the Manchuria as a puppet state and the memory of Korea’s national division.

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