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The Heartless (Mujŏng, 1917), Korea's first major modern novel, opens to a maelstrom of change in early colonial Seoul when fundamental ideas about the individual, nation, and literature were being overturned. The pioneering work introduces individuals whose newly awakened desires merge into those of the future nation. It sets the groundwork for au...
Yi Kwangsu's The Heartless ( Mujŏng , 1917) is Korea's first mature novel and its most celebrated text, on par with Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1914) and Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q (1922). Its place in world literary studies, however, has often been obscured by the author's later collaboration with the colonial state. This article attempts a new,...
The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea. By Henry H. Em . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xi, 265 pp. ISBN: 9780822353577 (cloth, also available in paper). - Volume 75 Issue 4 - Ellie Choi
In this article, I trace the circulation of kaejo (reconstruction; J. kaizō; C. gaizao) thought in East Asia after World War I, starting with its introduction by libertarian Bertrand Russell (The Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1916) to Japan and China. This study hopes to shed new light on an old debate through a rereading of Yi Kwangsu’s “On...
The looming question for intellectuals in colonized Korean after the failed March 1st 1919 Movement against Japanese rule was how to distill and maintain a Korean demos free from colonial government intervention while at the same time achieving capitalist modernization. The post-WWI call for national reconstruction circulated in Korea with earlier...
"Ch'unwŏn" Yi Kwang-su's (1892-1950) prominence in modern Korean intellectual and literary history is beyond dispute, but the writer himself continues to be the subject of controversy and debate. Yi Kwang-su is triply famous, first for penning Mujŏng (The Heartless), 1917, remembered as modern Korea's first mature novel; second, for being one of th...
"Travel is known to have a broadening effect, at least if the traveler is willing to keep his mind open. The amount of enlightenment which is gained from travel usually depends upon the amount of difference there is between the civilization from which the traveler starts his journey and that of the country at which he arrives. The more unlike the t...
