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"Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and travelogues by socialist writers, The Red Decades reveals Marxian socialism as a cultural phenomenon of colonial-age Korea. Providing an account of the social composition of the Communist milieu in 1920s and 1930s Korea and outlining the aims of the colonial-period Communist movement as formulated in programmic documents, this text offers a rich, nuanced description of the microcosm of Korean Communism--a setting of factional alignments, pilgrimages to Moscow, extended stays of the Korean revolutionaries as exiles in China and the Soviet Union, and a polylingual environment with Chinese, Japanese, English, and Russian being equally important as the idioms of socialist propagation and international networking. Placing the endeavors of colonial-age Communists within a global historical context allows for dissections of how Korean socialists' ideals interacted with the realities of the conservative turn taking place in the Soviet Union since the late 1920s, as well as considering the implication of Stalinism for Korean revolutionary culture. Yet this analysis also focuses on the individuals involved, especially on their persistent issue of factionalism in the Korean Communist movement and on the role of underground radicalism in shaping the subaltern subjectivities of the participants. The Red Decades discusses the world-historical place of "alternative modernity" that colonial-age socialists of Korea were pursuing. Based on a wealth of Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese primary sources, including the Korea-related parts of the archives of Comintern, an under-utilized resource in Anglophone scholarship. The research also accommodates the achievements of the last decades, from South Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Anglophone and Russophone academic worlds. The breadth of this study situates the philosophical, historiographical, and political practices of Marxism of colonial Korea in the global historical perspective and simultaneously explores the long-lasting influences of the Communist movement in post-1945 North and South Korea"--

Part I. Russia : an oriental occident? -- Russia as a threat and a hope in Korean intellectual life, 1880s to 1945 -- 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 -- The other to learn from at a distance : China in the pre-1910 modern Korean press -- 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? -- To learn from Japan in order to overcome it : Japan as the significant other in the Korean intellectual life of the 1900s-1920s -- The assimilation which never happened : Korean-Japanese mixed marriages in colonial Korea

Preliminary Material /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter One. Introduction: Social Darwinism And The Ambivalences Of Modernity /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Two. Social Darwinist Pioneers: The Cases Of Yu Kiljun And Yun Ch'iho /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Three. Social Darwinism For The Public: The Tongnip Sinmun (The Independent) And The Popularization Of Social Darwinism In The 1890s /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Four. Salvation Of The State And Race: Social Darwinism At The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Five. Survival, God And Buddha: Social Darwinism In The Buddhist Context /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Six. Knowledge Is Strength: Social Darwinism In Pre-Colonial Education /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Seven. Muscular Nationalism At The Dawn Of The New Century: Social Darwinism As An Ideology Of Hegemonic Masculinity /V. Tikhonov -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: The Influences Of Social Darwinism In Korea (1900s And After) /V. Tikhonov -- Glossary Of East Asian Terms /V. Tikhonov -- Bibliography /V. Tikhonov -- Index Of Concepts And Publication Titles /V. Tikhonov -- Index Of Personal And Geographical Names /V. Tikhonov.

Klappentext: "During the decades around 1900, Koreans experienced a world falling apart and the need to quickly build a new one. Intellectuals naturally took centre stage in this era of epistemic paradigm change. This book is devoted to the study of the life and ideas of some of these intellectuals, focussing on how they dealt with the challenges of their times. Where did their respective moral and intellectual stances lead them, and what were the social, economic, and political constraints that bounded their trajectories? Their life stories provide micro-historical insights into a period that has been formative for modern and contemporary Korea, and illustrate the intellectual ferment inherent in an era of crisis and transition"--