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A Space called Manchuria and Korean Chinese Two Nations Confronts -A Comparative Study about Korea and North East Chinese Literatures' Images of ‘The Other’ -

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2007, (7), pp.39~67
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : September 30, 2007
  • Accepted : October 30, 2007
  • Published : October 31, 2007

Kim,Changho 1

1강원대학교

ABSTRACT

Because they both belonged to the zone of Confucianism, from the ancient times China and Korea have had many cultural similarities and frequently have exchanged and influenced each other's literature. After Japanese occupation at the end of the nineteenth century, the literature of China (especially in the North East) and Korea were immersed in similar types of historical and linguistic context. At this paper I compare the images of Korea in North East Chinese literature and the image of North East China in Korean literature. Here I analyze images of ‘the Other’ in the modern literatures of both North East China and Korea. There were the following changes in the images of Korean in North East China after September 18, 1931, the beginning of the war in Manchuria. First, the images of patriots changed from nationalistic fighters to internationalistic fighters. Second, the boundary of the description of Korean images extended and deepened. Next, I divide images of North East China in the minds of Korean writers mainly Korean writers in Manchuria into three categories. These are images of the foreign land as the dark city in the eyes of elites, as the place of hope for immigrant peasants, and as the base of inde-pendence in the eyes of resistance fighters.

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