Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919

Description:

Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representation, narrative, and rhetoric in the construction of public sentiment, Andre Schmid traces the genealogies of cultural assumptions and linguistic turns evident in Korea's major newspapers during the social an.

subjects: History,  Nationalism,  Nationalism, korea,  Korea, history,  Nationalisme,  Histoire

Places: Korea

Times: 1864-1910