Colonial Chosun Research Articles

제국의 노스텔지아와 식민지의 여수(旅愁): Pépé le Moko(1937), <望鄕>(1939)과 「여수」(1939)를 중심으로 = Two Kinds of Nostalgia Between the Empires and the Colonies: Comparing Pépé le Moko, Nostalgia, and “Yeo Su”

Lee Hyo Seok wrote “Yeo Su” (여수) as the novelization of Julien Duvivier’s film, Pepe le Moko , which is translated into Nostalgia (망향) under the Japanese Empire. For the most part, Korea under Japanese rule accepted Western literature and movies through Japan. Therefore, Western cultural products that arrived in colonial Chosun are a reflection of the two kinds of empires. The main character of Pepe le Moko , Pepe, is captivated by Gaby. Here, Gaby represents the modern city Paris, and this is the reason Pepe became disillusioned with Casbah, which gave him shelter. That means he suffers from nostalgia for a modern nation (or city), and Japan replaces Pepe’s nostalgia with homesickness. It’s only possible to empathize with a modern nation. Because modernity is not completed in the colonial Chosun, however, modernity occasionally is understood as a consequence of the colonization. In this context, the study focuses on the mutual negotiation of literature and film on the path of cultural acceptance in the colonial era of Chosun. In contrast to the pursuit of Eurocentric identity revealed in the film, Lee strove to create characters who were excluded from the severe competition among empires. As a result, the narrator of “Yeo Su” identifies himself as a traveler because he projects himself onto stateless people. As well, the nostalgia of the empires is switched to traveller’s melancholy.

The Theory of Colonial Policy Developed in Imperial Japanand Colonial Chosun based on the Argumentof Waseda Univ. Graduates

The Theory of Colonial Policy Developed in Imperial Japanand Colonial Chosun based on the Argumentof Waseda Univ. Graduates

Research on the distribution of japanese ghost story during colonial Chosun dynasty -Focusing on distribution of ghost movies and ghost series innewspaper during 1920s-

Research on the distribution of japanese ghost story during colonial Chosun dynasty -Focusing on distribution of ghost movies and ghost series innewspaper during 1920s-

World literature of colonial Chosun

한국의 민족문학론은 일본의 식민지라는 역사적 조건을 기반으로 한 국민문학론의 형태로 전개되어왔기 때문에 한국근대문학을 둘러싼 물음에는 제국 일본의 그림자가 필연적으로 전제된다. 하지만 그것이 곧바로 한국문학과 일본문학의 영향관계의 네트워크로 연결되는 것은 아니다. 오히려 식민지 조선의 근대문학은 서구문학을 자명한 전범으로 삼고 있었기 때문에 근대문학으로서의 세계문학 담론이 요청될 수밖에 없었고, 또 그 과정에서 조선적 후진성과 같은 주변부 의식을 극복해가면서 세계문학에 도달할 수 있는 조선문학을 성취하기 위해 성실히 노력해갔다. 그러나 서구의 근대문학에 미치지 못하는 요소로서의 조선적 후진성이 강조되는 과정에서 조선 문인들의 노력은 역설적으로 조선의 정체성을 보다 명료히 하는 작업으로 이어짐으로써 결국 민족-언어 공동체로서의 ‘조선 회귀’로 귀결되었다. 이 지점에서 우리는 ‘보편적인 것’이란 19세기에 확립된 개념이고, 또 ‘내이션’ 역시 근대문학의 산물이라는 점을 재확인하게 된다. 따라서 ‘서구근대문학=세계문학’이라는 도식에 대해 우리가 새삼 재인식해야 할 것은 또 다시 조선문학의 상대성에 대한 주장을 되풀이할 것이 아니라, 오히려 ‘보편적인 것’으로 간주되는 서구근대문학에 내재된 견고한 정체성을 회의하는 일이다. 보편성이란 선험적인 것이 아니라 역사적으로 형성되어온 것이고 또 거기에는 그 역사성을 은폐하기 위한 기원이 자리하고 있다는 사실을 상기한다면, 그것은 곧 조선문학에 내재된 정체성이라는 자명한 믿음을 회의하는 일 그 자체와 다른 것이 아니기 때문이다.

Competing Subjects of Creation in Japanese Literature of Colonial Chosun in the 1920’s

Competing Subjects of Creation in Japanese Literature of Colonial Chosun in the 1920’s

A Study on the Rice Granary Policy Management of the Japanese Government-General of Chosun in the 1930s

In the 1930’s, Japanese Empire and colonial Chosun was under the Agricultural depression. Due to the unprecedented good harvest of the rice, the price of rice was about to plummet. To prevent deficits of japanese farmhouse, the Japanese Government-General of Chosun constructed the rice granary throughout the peninsular. By that facility, Japanese authority in Korea could support the rice price in Japan.<BR> The rice granaries in Korea were owned by the agricultural association which was controled by the Japanese authority, and undertook the business about rice flow-out on the market. Initially, the number of the rice granaries was low, but on April 1930, Japanese authority launched plan for the new rice granaries.<BR> Since announced the new plan, the Japanese Government-General of Chosun built rice granaries with two distinctly different sectors, area of production and each seaport town. The former was called ‘Kapjong Rice Granary(甲種 倉庫)’, the later was called ‘Uljong Rice Granary(乙種 倉庫)’.<BR> By these granary, they could prevent the rice price-fallen in Japan. But this was not the fundamental solution for the problem. Costs for the granary had increased over time, and the surplus increased as years go by. On this account, Japanese authority forced storing the rice on village’s vacant lot and assigned storing supplies to each farmhouse.

Modern Approach to Treating Mental Patients in Colonial Chosun

Literature produced by the government and the private sector in the colonial era was reviewed to determine the knowledge of the people of colonial Chosun of mental illness and mental patients and the mental patient management system that they implemented or intended to implement. The results of this study show that the people of Chosun realized the need to sterilize mental patients because they considered mental patients very violent, dangerous and eugenically inferior and they believed that mental patients would eventually impede the prosperity of Chosun. The people of colonial Chosun had learned about the lifelong mental hygiene movement, which had knowledge of mental illness prevention. However, they also recognized that people who developed mental illness despite efforts to prevent such condition needed help from the modern system, especially from modern Western psychiatry. The primary responsibility to attend to mental patients was imposed on their family. The family had to understand the symptoms of mental illness according to the modern medical classification and how to deal with them. When the family could not afford to take care of its mentally ill family member due to the increase in the member's risk behavior such as frenzied-convulsive excitement, paranoia and delusion of jealousy, the family was also responsible for isolating him and connecting him with a mental hospital. The police and social workers were also responsible for observing and monitoring mental patients in their community and for connecting them with a mental hospital. The police made a list of mental patients within their area of jurisdiction and prohibited them from wandering based on the law. It was also considered desirable for mental patients who could not identify their family members to be sent to a mental hospital. Social workers were responsible for managing mental patient sanatoriums, and district commissioners sent to the police mental patients who had no family to look after them or who posed a threat to others, or else commissioned them to the government hospital. Thus, the final responsibility for mental patients was imposed on the modern Western medical team, because the district commissioners sent them to the police and the police sent them to the government mental hospital. Most educated people and government personnel in the colonial era thought modern Western psychiatry circles were responsible for mental patient management, and the Japanese empire enacted mental-healthrelated laws and made efforts to secure funds for the establishment of mental hospitals. As the literature at that time also show the position of the modern Western medical circle, their ambivalent attitude to mental patients must also be clarified to interpret the modern approach to treating mental patients in colonial Chosun. In this context, a research on historical figures in Japanese psychiatry, a study on the specific treatment methods used by the modern Western psychiatric team in the colonial era and their effects, and the extension of the subject period for such researches are suggested.

‘Chosun Education Decree’ and Japanese in Korea Education System

‘Chosun Education Decree’ was the main decree for education system in the colonial Chosun by Japan. The education systems for Koreans and Japanese in Korea were organized under different legal items until 1922. This period was used to introduce and repair the Japanese education system after the conquering of Chosun. Japan integrated the Korean and Japanese education systems underthe same legal and systematic frames with the second education decree. By expanding the application to both groups of people, the Chosun Education Decree became the law that targeted the entire colonial Chosun. From then on, the entity of Chosun education was the Japanese people in Korea and the Chosun education system started to change into the Japanese education system. At the same time, the schooling system of the Chosun people and the Japanese people started here. The “transformation” and “Non-Segregated Education” systems from the second education decree were completed with the third education decree. The basic policy for Japanese education in Korea was to not differentiate it from the education in mainland Japan even from the early colonization period. By combining the Japanese education systems for Korea and Japan with the second education decree, Japan allowed the Japanese people to be able to receive the same education as in the mainland.

Park Ki-chae's Authorship in the Adaptation of Heartlessness(Mu-jeong): The Formation of Woman's Film and the Emergent Female Reader-spectatorship in Colonial Chosun

Park Ki-chae's Authorship in the Adaptation of Heartlessness(Mu-jeong): The Formation of Woman's Film and the Emergent Female Reader-spectatorship in Colonial Chosun

A study on desire to modernity and trans-localism of colonial period Chosun film

A study on desire to modernity and trans-localism of colonial period Chosun film

The Modernity appeared in Science &amp; Technology Discourse of Colonial Chosun

The Modernity appeared in Science &amp; Technology Discourse of Colonial Chosun

The advent of a silent-film narrator and its early features in colonial Chosun

The advent of a silent-film narrator and its early features in colonial Chosun

“Educational” films in colonial Chosun: an analysis of the background to films produced by the Society Department of the Home office

“Educational” films in colonial Chosun: an analysis of the background to films produced by the Society Department of the Home office

On Family Customs in the Colonial Chosun: Imamura Tomo's A Collection of the Korean Customs and recognition on Chosun Society

On Family Customs in the Colonial Chosun: Imamura Tomo's A Collection of the Korean Customs and recognition on Chosun Society

The Transformation of Silent Cinema's Byeonsa as the Star of Vernacular Modernism in Colonial Chosun

The Transformation of Silent Cinema's Byeonsa as the Star of Vernacular Modernism in Colonial Chosun

The Transformation of Silent Cinema's Byeonsa as the Star of Vernacular Modernism in Colonial Chosun

The Transformation of Silent Cinema's Byeonsa as the Star of Vernacular Modernism in Colonial Chosun