Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Russia – an Oriental Occident? 1. Russia as a Threat and a Hope in Korean Intellectual Life, 1880s to 1945 2. The Joys of Utopia, the Sorrows of Exile: Russia, Russian and the USSR in Korean Colonial-Period Literature Part II: China – Centre-turned-Periphery-turned Hope for the Future 3. The Other to learn from at a Distance: China in the pre-1910 Modern Korean Press 4. Aliens in our Midst and the Hope for the Future: the Image of China and Chinese in 1910s-30s’ Korea Part III: Japan – Model and Conqueror, eternally Alien? 5. To Learn from Japan in Order to Overcome it: Japan as the Significant Other in the Korean Intellectual Life of the 1900s-1920s 6. The Assimilation which Never Happened: Korean-Japanese Mixed Marriages in Colonial Korea 7. Conclusion

About the Author

Vladimir Tikhonov is a professor of Korean and East Asian studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Oslo University, Norway. He recently published Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea: the Beginnings (2010).

Reviews

"... this book is highly readable, providing a thorough and textured intellectual history, with due consideration of historical context always at the forefront of the author’s concerns. It also offers an enlightening introduction to both well-known and more obscure authors and their works. These are some of the many qualities that make this book highly recommended."Kyung Moon Hwang, University of Southern California, Pacific Affairs