Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.18399/ACTA.2019.22.1.006
Konstantin Tertitski, Fyodor K. Tertitskiy
Abstract:This article studies an important period 1929–1931 in the life of Kim Il-sung (C. Jin Richeng), the first leader of North Korea, through an analysis of his previously unknown personal file written by officials of the Communist International in the Soviet Union in 1941 after Kim had escaped to the USSR from Manchukuo. It is possibly the first biography of Kim Il-sung ever written. The document sheds new light on some aspects of Kim’s early life, including his arrest in 1929, his service in the Chinese People’s National Salvation Army, and the events surrounding his admission into the Chinese Communist Party. On the basis of this file and other documents of the era, such as diaries of Kim’s superior Zhou Baozhong and Comintern chief Dimitrov, this paper presents an account of Kim Il-sung’s life and career in the late 1920s – early 1930s and reveals the distortions of the official North Korean biography of Kim Il-sung in service to the ideological goals of the state.
摘要:本文通过分析共产国际驻苏联官员在金正日从满洲国逃到苏联后撰写的1941年金正日不为人知的个人档案，研究了朝鲜第一任领导人金日成(C. Kim Richeng) 1929-1931年一生中的一个重要时期。这可能是有史以来第一本关于金日成的传记。这份文件揭示了金正日早年生活的一些方面，包括他1929年被捕，他在中国人民救国军的服役，以及他加入中国共产党的过程。在此档案的基础上，以及当时的其他文件，如金正日的上级周保忠和共产国际主席季米特洛夫的日记，本文介绍了金日成在20世纪20年代末至30年代初的生活和生涯，并揭示了朝鲜官方的金日成传记在服务于国家意识形态目标方面的扭曲。
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.18399/ACTA.2019.22.1.003
Lee Seunghye
Abstract:A binary model of patronage has often guided previous studies on modern Korean Buddhist paintings from the metropolitan area around present-day Seoul. This model sharply contrasts works sponsored by the royal court at the end of Chosŏn with those commissioned by abbots of prominent temples during the colonial period. In this model, formal features of paintings are aligned with social status and the political stance of patrons; court-sponsored works are considered as displaying conventional style and iconography, while those sponsored by abbots who collaborated with Japanese colonialists show new painting techniques and iconographic motifs. Yet the complex history of Korean Buddhism and its visual culture complicates any attempts to address the history of Korean Buddhist art at the turn of the twentieth century from a monolithic and linear perspective. The Buddhist art and architecture of Anyang’am, founded in 1889 by a devout layman who later became fully ordained, provide a case study for rethinking this binary model of art and patronage. My investigation reveals that the Buddhist art and architecture of the temple, dating from the 1890s to 1910s, show stylistic, iconographic, and spatial affinities with those sponsored in the region by the court a few decades earlier. I argue that the patron emulated royal sponsorship to promote the newly founded temple through visual representation. This study challenges the presumed relationship between art and patronage, while arguing that differences of painting styles and iconographic motifs are modulated by far more diverse factors rooted in the changing religious and cultural context.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.18399/ACTA.2019.22.1.005
Loughlin J. Sweeney
Abstract:At the end of the nineteenth century, western incursions into Korea had gradually opened the peninsula to the outside world, and by the 1890s foreigners were not only permitted to reside in the country, but becoming commonplace in treaty ports and in the capital. At the same time, Britain, Russia, and increasingly, Japan, were engaged in a contest for geopolitical supremacy in the northern Pacific; Great Power contestation over access to trade in north China centred on the Korean peninsula as a major point of tension for the international balance of power. In this period a number of British official visitors came to Korea, and three prepared reports on the characteristics of the Korean people, society, economy, and geography. They were all politicians or colonial functionaries: Charles W. Campbell, a naturalist and consular official stationed in Seoul, George Nathaniel Curzon, a Conservative member of Parliament, who would later become Viceroy of India, and Joseph Walton, a Liberal member of Parliament from Yorkshire with a consuming interest in East Asian affairs. These men’s narratives provided a great deal of the information on Korea available to the British official mind as it formulated its East Asian policy. This article assesses the underlying motivations behind these visits, and examines the effect of British regional geopolitics on these men’s attitudes to encounter in Korea.
摘要:19世纪末，西方入侵朝鲜，朝鲜半岛逐渐向外界开放，到19世纪90年代，外国人不仅被允许在朝鲜居住，而且在通商口岸和首都也变得司空见惯。与此同时，英国、俄罗斯，以及越来越多的日本，参与了北太平洋地缘政治霸权的争夺;大国在中国北方的贸易争夺集中在朝鲜半岛，这是国际力量平衡的一个主要紧张点。在这一时期，英国的一些官方访问人员来到韩国，其中三人编写了关于韩国人的特点、社会、经济、地理的报告。他们都是政治家或殖民地官员:查尔斯·w·坎贝尔(Charles W. Campbell)是驻首尔的博物学家和领事官员，乔治·纳撒尼尔·寇松(George Nathaniel Curzon)是保守党议员，后来成为印度总督，约瑟夫·沃尔顿(Joseph Walton)是来自约克郡的自由党议员，对东亚事务非常感兴趣。这些人的叙述为制定东亚政策的英国官员提供了大量有关朝鲜的信息。本文评估了这些访问背后的潜在动机，并考察了英国地区地缘政治对这些人在朝鲜遭遇态度的影响。
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Pub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.18399/ACTA.2019.22.1.001
Christopher P. Hanscom
Abstract:This article takes so-called migrant labor fiction in South Korea as an opportunity to think about the long-standing question of the politics of representation. Looking at recent fiction from Kim Insuk, Kim Chaeyŏng, and Kang Yŏngsuk, Hanscom argues that whatever its avowed politics, a text presenting the experience of the migrant laborer must claim a certain veracity or proximity to the real to achieve its effects. That the crossing of geopolitical borders is figured in these examples through the fantastic representation of speech outside of linguistic difference does not diminish the need to think through such representations in terms of the problem of realism, for which fiction is comprehended and valued to the extent that it expresses the actuality of the subject. In these stories, this actuality comes to the reader in two linked forms: the mundanity of the everyday, particularly the trope of urban poverty and the figure of the common people; and the imagined divorce of speech from ethnic-national or cultural context. What the essay finds is that rather than presenting a transcultural ideal of post-national community, representations of speech in these stories instead retain a culturalist impulse for which the “tie of language” remains linked to the “tie of blood.” Beyond the interpretation of an empathetic surface politics that aims to persuade the reader of the humanity of the laborer, culture remains linked to an economy of human types signaled by linguistic belonging.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.18399/acta.2018.21.2.001
Clark W. Sorensen
Abstract:The mountain gods of P'albong Mountain in western Kangwŏn Province are celebrated in a spring shaman ceremony presided over by a master shaman attached to the village shrine. Several studies of the shrine ceremony made between 1976 and 1990 complement each other at the observational level, but differ as to whether the present ceremony is an imperfectly preserved example of an ideal-typical dualistic purakche made up of a male Confucian ritual complemented by female shamanistic ritual, or a living example of a distinct regional tradition that acquires its authenticity from believers' inner experience and perception. Mountain worship at P'albong Mountain is documented to be old, yet the current shamans' ritual is "inspired by the gods" rather than handed down from the past. The article argues for the view of tradition as an interpretive process that embodies both continuity and discontinuity, rather than of tradition as replication of the past.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.18399/acta.2018.21.2.004
CEDARBOUGH T. SAEJI
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.18399/acta.2018.21.2.008
Shin Seungyop
Abstract:In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern historians played a vital role in structuring discourses about Korean nationhood. These new narratives were not created in isolation but interwoven with the international environment in which different forces co-created representations of Korea. This article attempts to reconsider the formation of modern Korean historiography by examining how Korean nationalist and Japanese colonialist scholars overlapped with each other in their practice of writing national history. It shows that Korean and Japanese historical accounts, despite their differences, were both premised on three major categorical concepts derived from the West: the essentialist understanding of the nation, the linear perception of time, and history's subjective control over territorial space. I will conduct a textual analysis of writings by two Korean historians—Sin Ch'aeho and Pak Ŭnsik—and compare them to publications by several Japanese scholars who worked under the sponsorship of the Government General from the 1910s to the 1930s. My goal is to show that these two types of historical interpretation reified themselves for political ends within regimes of Western epistemological paradigms.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.18399/acta.2018.21.2.005
Kim Sunkyung
Abstract:Stone steles served multiple purposes in different cultures: as a territorial marker, an edifying tablet, a political edict, a votive altar, a funerary monument, or a celebratory reminder of remarkable individuals or events. Chinese steles carved with images of Buddhist deities are monuments that testify to the process of adoption and adaptation across different cultural traditions. As products of the Buddhist appropriation of non-Buddhist Chinese steles, steles with Buddhist imagery are hybrids.The visual dialogue between two realms—the mortuary and the religious—underwent another twist when Buddhist steles first appeared on the Korean peninsula in the seventh century. The carvings on Korean steles displayed the usual prominent Buddhist deities and the formulaic language of a dedicatory inscription, but were made in the former territory of a defeated kingdom under a new administrative reign. Hence, they tell us about the fluctuating boundary between political entities, the social identity of the donors, and desired destinations of the devotees. Although "set in stone," they never easily manifest a single fixed reading of the visual messages embedded in them.In order to better understand the paradoxically fluid character of unyielding stone, this article discusses some anomalous elements of these steles. Focusing on a few peculiar examples of steles from 6th century China and 7th century Korea, this article explores the roles of subsidiary motifs, such as trees and pavilions, found across geographic/cultural borders.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.18399/acta.2018.21.2.007
You Minjung
Abstract:Originally, East Asian intellectuals focused their attention on the philosophy of the Confucian Classics, rarely commenting on their literary aspects. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, there were three exegetical works that proposed a different approach to the Mengzi: Maengja ch'aŭi (Notes on the meanings of the Mengzi) written by Wi Paekkyu (1727–1798), a Chosŏn scholar, Mengzi lunwen written by Niu Yunzhen (1706–1758) from China, and Doku Mōshi written by Hirose Tansō (1782–1856) in Japan. These exegeses approached the Mengzi through its literary style, and commented on many literary points: rhetorical strategy, grammar, and wording. In this article, these exegetical works are referred to as "rhetorical commentaries" since they emphasized rhetoric to a much greater extent than previous commentaries.The purpose of this article is to show how the rhetorical commentaries are different from ordinary or standard commentaries, such as the works of Zhu Xi and Jiao Xun, but also to point out some differences among the three rhetorical commentaries. In addition, this study evaluates the significance of the appearance in East Asia of rhetorical commentaries in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. This will be done by placing them in the context of relevant historical events and changes in literati culture from the middle ages to the early-modern period of East Asia. Thus, this article will be a first step towards an understanding of rhetorically oriented exegeses in East Asia and the relationship between these commentaries, their historical change and their intellectual history.
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