Recent Western-European Historical Studies on ‘Pre-Modern’ Korea and the Issue of ‘Modernity’Revisited
Journal Title: International Journal of Korean History - Year 2013, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
The notion of ‘modernity’ in Korean history is still a highly contested issue cutting at the core of both historical understanding and current politics, as can be seen in the controversy surrounding the understanding of this professed by the New Right Movement in South Korea. Although, of course, interrelated, there are two main aspects of the contested issues of modernity and Korean history: firstly, to what extent can socioeconomic changes and intellectual and ideological developments in the late Chosǂn (Joseon) period be considered as carrying the quality of modernity, and secondly, is colonial modernity a proper concept to understand social and economic change in Korea under Japanese occupation.
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Anders Karlsson
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