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Schmid provides a stimulating tour of current theorizing about the nation and nationalism... profoundly stimulating and highly recommended. Choice A breathtaking historiography, magisterial in sweep, elegant in structure, lucid in idiom, and insightful and illuminating in interpretation... The book's strengths are likely to make it an unrivaled work of scholarship on modern Korea for a long time to come. American Historical Review Schmid's new book is a significant contribution to the English-language study of Korean nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century... a rich and rewarding study. -- Christine J. Kim Pacific Affairs In this provocative new study Andre Schmid examines how intellectuals of the Korean 'patriotic enlightenment movement' began to re-imagine their own society as a national community... [A] persuasively argued and felicitously written book. -- Peter Duus Korean Studies Schmid's book is a welcom and important contribution...deft and elegant prose -- Sheila Miyoshi jager Journal of Asian History enriches our understanding of Korean nationalism...This book is a joy to read -- Kenneth Wells Asian Studies Review I highly recommend Schmid's book as an earnest narrative that illumines the cultural and intellectual setting and dialogues. -- Jacqueline Pak Journal of Asian Studies November 2005 A fascinating study in the recent intellectual history of Korea... highly recommended. -- Michael Finch Acta Koreana Vol. 6 No. 1 2003
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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 and political upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Newspapers were the primary location for the re-imagining of the nation, enabling readers to move away from the conceptual framework inherited from a Confucian and dynastic past toward a nationalist vision that was deeply rooted in global ideologies of capitalist modernity. As producers and disseminators of knowledge about the nation, newspapers mediated perceptions of Korea's precarious place amid Chinese and Japanese colonial ambitions and were vitally important to the rise of a nationalist movement in Korea.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Solid, with a few gaps in coverage
18 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
In this well-written book, the author explores the genesis of Korean national conciousness. He focuses much attention on the members of the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement and the newspapers they published from roughly the years 1895 to 1910. He does a good job linking the rise of Korean newspapers to the development of national identity. Many of his points are salient and well-argued, but the book does contain several gaps in coverage.
For example, by his own admission, Schmid's book is elitist with his focus on the educated elite who could read newspapers written in a hybrid Chinese/vernacular script. It is fine to focus on the elite, but Schmid fails to articulate how popular conceptions of the nation affected the theories of the elite. Schmid's book is inherently dogged by binaries such as elite/non-elite and colonial/non-colonial, despite his claim to overcome them. At the end, we are left with a sense that the newspaper editors, who wrote in the presence of Japan's "civilization and enlightenment", were wholly responsible for the formation of Korean national identity. I feel this reading gives too much priority to the Japanese presence and also leaves us stuck in the traditional mentality that Koreans simply reacted to Japan.
In all fairness, Schmid does illustrate examples from the past (such as the 1712 Kando incident) to suggest that there were people who began to conceive of the nation long before Meiji Japan. However, he tends to anacronistically imbue these events with more significance than they apparently warrented in their time. He also fails to draw a conclusive link between pre-Meiji nationalist ventures and the newspapers of the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement.
In all, this book is a valuable contribution to the field, but it's narrow focus on newspapers does weaken his overall argument. He should have stuck with an analysis of newspapers, which he explores so elegantly, and not have tried to describe Korean nationalism in its totality.
2 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Only for academics
25 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
This book is very densely written and not terribly readable. It's really only for the most academic of readers, and not for the general reader looking to learn about this period of Korean history. It was difficult to keep my interest, and even harder to finish.
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