Japan and Korea: Cultures in Conflict - ARTS3640
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
Excluded: KORE5001
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Japanese Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Korean Studies & Asian Studies
Focuses on the relations between Japan and Korea from the late 19th century and the role of Japanese colonialism in the development of Korean cultural nationalism. Examines the context of Japan’s “opening” of Korea in 1876, including the intellectual frameworks by which Korean and Japanese thinkers defined cultural unity; debates among Korea’s cultural conservatives and those who advocated taking Japan as a model for social and cultural change; Japanese readings of Korean culture’s “defects” and early support for Korean self-strengthening movements; the relationship between Japanese colonial policies and Koreans’ responses after annexation in 1910; the interrelationship between the Japanese policy of “cultural rule” and the Korean response of “cultural [nationalist] movements” after 1919; and the development of Korean cultural nationalism through the colonial period (1910-1945). Concludes with a critical examination of the continuing impact of Japanese colonialism on the construction of cultural memory in contemporary Korea.
This course is taught in English and with readings in English.