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The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea

The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea

Hardcover

Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

HistoriographyKorean History

ISBN10: 0822353571
ISBN13: 9780822353577
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Mar 25 2013
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em shows, was foundational to modern Korean politics in that it served a pedagogical function for Japanese and Western imperialisms, as well as for Korean nationalism. Sovereignty thus functioned as police power and political power in shaping Korea's modernity, including anticolonial and postcolonial movements toward a radically democratic politics.

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