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@article{ART002966374},
author={Ha Shin Ae},
title={The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941)},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2023},
volume={80},
number={2},
pages={223-265},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223}

TY - JOUR
AU - Ha Shin Ae
TI - The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941)
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2023
VL - 80
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 223
EP - 265
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This article aims to read Park Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (Feb 1941) through the intersection of a formality of political fiction and the internal narrative of a stroller/spy. Through this, the way in which the formality of political fiction formed in the early modern era inter-winded with the wartime atmosphere to show the specific context of that time was examined. Furthermore, by analyzing the stroller/spy narrative of The Dawn of Asia, which was dynamically panned out based on the discursive network with China and the cultural geography of British Hong Kong and French Indochina, this research adopted various research methodologies to approach literature. Recent discussion on Park Tae-won’s literature points out that previous researches “rarely came up with a perspective other than the author’s point of view that took issue with changes in the literary world” when considering the “fundamental limitation of the creative environment” caused by the Pacific War and defect to North Korea. This author-centered view had a considerable achievement in examining the personal transformation of Park Tae-won, from a "modernism stroller" to a Pro-Japanese collaborator and then reaching North Korea's "realism world". However, more diverse research methodologies are required to trace the interaction with the context of the times. This paper focused on keywords associated with the formality of The Dawn of Asia as political fiction, which has not been a major theme in previous research, as well as the the stroller/spy narrative to explore the discursive network with China based on intertextuality and to analyze the cultural path of strolling/counterespionage which unfolded within the landscape of Eurasia. These attempts are significant in that they (1) highlight the various layers of literary value contained in Park Tae-won’s novel during the wartime period, (2) examine the historical significance of political fiction diachronically through the period of the Pacific War, and (3) reviewed how Park Tae-won sought the “possibility” related to the Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere by summoning the formality of political fiction, which played a major role in describing the origin of a nation, and how he could (or could not) realize it through the multi-layered spaces of Eurasia.
KW - War Regime;Intertextuality;Modernism;Imperialism;the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere;Wang Jingwei
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223
ER -

Ha Shin Ae. (2023). The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941). Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 80(2), 223-265.

Ha Shin Ae. 2023, "The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941)", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.80, no.2 pp.223-265. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223

Ha Shin Ae "The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941)" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 80.2 pp.223-265 (2023) : 223.

Ha Shin Ae. The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941). 2023; 80(2), 223-265. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223

Ha Shin Ae. "The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941)" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 80, no.2 (2023) : 223-265.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223

Ha Shin Ae. The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941). Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 80(2), 223-265. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223

Ha Shin Ae. The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941). Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2023; 80(2) 223-265. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223

Ha Shin Ae. The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941). 2023; 80(2), 223-265. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223

Ha Shin Ae. "The Network of Political Fiction and Eurasian Cultural Geography of the Stroller/Spy-Focusing on the Representations of China, Hong Kong, and Indochina in Park, Tae-won’s The Dawn of Asia (1941)" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 80, no.2 (2023) : 223-265.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.80.2.202305.223