{"title":"Salvation through History: On the Relationship between An Kyŏngjŏn's Millenarian Doctrine and Pseudohistory","authors":"A. Logie","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2020.20.2.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2020.20.2.001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In recent years, South Korean pseudohistorians, who accuse the academic establishment of promoting \"colonial-era historiography,\" have achieved political influence impacting professional research on early Korea. Their alternative narrative imagines ancient Korea as an expansive continental empire giving rise to northeast Asian civilization. Archetypal to this conceptualization is the apocryphal history Hwandan kogi 桓檀古記 (1979). Placed in the history sections of bookstores, the most accessible edition today is that translated by An Kyŏngjŏn, second-generation patriarch of the syncretic new religion of Chŭngsando. An's Hwandan kogi contains an extensive introduction both synthesizing the full canon of Korean pseudohistory, and incorporating his own millenarian doctrine drawn from Sino-Korean esotericism; An further supplements both these aspects with corresponding Western pseudoscience pertaining to lost civilizations and imminent apocalypse. Situating An's doctrine in diachronic contexts of popular Korean history and new religion, this paper seeks to illuminate one of the lesser known forces currently abetting Korean pseudohistory.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"151 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46637492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-nationalizing Repatriated Japanese into Post-War Japan: From Imperial Subjects to Post-War Citizens","authors":"Yi-jin Park","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2020.20.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2020.20.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper examines the relationship between the Cold War and returnees to Japan based on Kikansha hikkei 帰還者必携 (Handbook for returnees), a publication prepared by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture on June 1, 1949. This analysis focuses on the contents of Kikansha hikkei in order to clarify the meaning of democracy and re-nationalization in post-war Japan and show that the metahistory of returnees—viewed in previous research in terms of war history, the sufferings of people in colonized areas, and pre- and post-war continuities and discontinuities—originated in the new “Cultural Cold War.” Japan’s post-war reorganization sought the democratization of militaristic elements, and for this reason critical research on preand post-war continuities and discontinuities has centered on postwar reforms and/or imperial (colonial) history within the critique of decolonization. In this context, the basic perspective of the Japanese government toward returnees at the time seems to have been that overseas returnees living in direct contact with the old “pre-war” systems—empire and colonialism—should be re-nationalized as citizens of the “new Japan.” In this process, however, the Japanese authorities did not mean merely to reorganize subjects of the former empire into citizens of post-war Japan; returnees were also required to become the principle modernizing agents in realizing liberal democracy—another kind of warrior in the Cold War.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"113 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46645298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kudō Takeki, Director of Keijō Women's Hospital, and His Medical Service for Women and Buddhist Activities in Colonial Korea","authors":"Jaemok Choi, Jeonggon Kim, Tze-ki Hon, Wai-ming Ng, Ying-kit Chan, Yuniu Li, Chunyan Ma, Yasuyuki Murakami, Zhiqing Zhou, Yingdong Yang, Yingfu Li","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper examines the relationship between women's medical care and Buddhism through the activities of Kudō Takeki 工藤武城 (1878–?), director of Keijō Women's Hospital during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and how Kudō's projects functioned under Japanese \"cultural rule\" (Bunka seiji 文化政治) in colonial Korea. Kudō Takeki specialized in gynecology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Along with some other influential figures in Korea, he sought to cure even spiritual problems of his patients through Buddhist propagation and literary activities. Through his activities, Kudō Takeki helped promote such initiatives on the part of the colonial rulers in their management of colonial Korea. His activities involved forging connections between medical service and Buddhism and between Buddhism and women. After the March First Movement of 1919, Governor-General Saitō turned his attention to women, who had become more receptive to Buddhism in Korea after centuries of domination under Confucianism in Chosŏn, as well as to medical science and service, the \"benefits of civilization.\" In this respect, the \"cultural rule\" of the colonial state tried to exercise governance by reconciling medicine, Buddhism, and women into a regime that could effectively further its agenda. In this invisible framework, Kudō took it as his calling to improve the social status of Korean women and give them relief through his medical knowledge and practice.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 111 - 17 - 19 - 36 - 37 - 58 - 59 - 90 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46053108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuniu Li, Chunyan Ma, Y. Murakami, Zhiqing Zhou, Yingdong Yang, Yingfu Li
{"title":"Cast Iron Smelting and Fining: An Iron Smelting Site of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Xuxiebian, Sichuan Province, China","authors":"Yuniu Li, Chunyan Ma, Y. Murakami, Zhiqing Zhou, Yingdong Yang, Yingfu Li","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this article, we introduce the excavation of an iron smelting site at Xuxiebian 许鞋匾, Pujiang 蒲江 County, Sichuan 四川 Province in the PRC. Two excavations were carried out in 2007 and 2011, and a total of four bowl-shaped furnaces, five pits, two trenches, and one posthole were excavated. The site is dated from the mid-late Eastern Han dynasty to the Jin dynasty (ca. AD 150–420) according to the local pottery assemblage. It is possible that the sole functions of the Xuxiebian site were the production of pig iron ingots and the conversion of pig iron to wrought iron. The iron ingots were likely transported to areas with stronger administrative control by the central government near the ancient city of Chengdu or even to the Central Plains, where they were then cast into different objects.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"111 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47390585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Assimilation of the Yijing in Tibetan History and Culture","authors":"Wai-ming Ng","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Tibet has had a long history of cultural interaction with China and some Chinese elements were incorporated into the Tibetan cultural system. The Yijing 易經 (Classic of Changes) and its related theories (such as yinyang wuxing 陰陽五行, the two primal forces and five agents), practices (such as divination), and symbols (such as the eight trigrams and taiji 太極) can be found in different walks of cultural and religious life in Tibet. This is the first academic study of the Yijing in Tibetan history. Based primarily on Chinese and Tibetan primary sources, this study will provide an historical overview of the impact of the Yijing in Tibet and discuss the role of the Yijing and its related ideas and symbols in the making of Tibetan culture. Assimilating Chinese knowledge into non-Sinitic tribal cultures is a complex process of cross-cultural encounter. This article reveals that the historical reception of the Yijing in Tibet was a process of assimilating Chinese knowledge into Tibetan culture and religion. It will break new ground in the comparative study of the Yijing in Asia and in China-Tibet studies.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"19 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46880940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Root of All Things: Liang Jushi and Practical Enterprise in Late Qing China","authors":"Ying-kit Chan","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:At the turn of the twentieth century in China, a cohort of moderate literati, while marginal to the mainstream politics of reform and revolution, worked to save the Chinese nation from collapse by developing education and industrial enterprises. This article investigates the ideas of Liang Jushi 梁居實 (1843–1911), one of these literati, whose views on the nation and its economy stemmed from the more parochial concern that his native Guangdong Province might be colonized or partitioned by foreign powers. Liang Jushi was inspired not only by the West, Japan, and vanquished nations such as Poland, but also by the Western colonies in Southeast Asia, where several friends had become extremely successful entrepreneurs. By regarding these Chinese-populated colonies more as a source of inspiration than a symbol of subjugation, Liang Jushi also articulated a more nuanced understanding of foreign imperialism.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"37 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43994774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping with Contingency and Uncertainty: The Yijing Hexagrams on Decay and Discordance","authors":"Tze-ki Hon","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2019.19.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:As a manual for divination, the Yijing is filled with stern warnings about calamity, regret, and remorse, as if the world is falling apart. These warnings not only underscore the contingency and unpredictability of the universe, but also direct attention to the dark side of human existence and things such as disease, deformation, degeneration, and death. Over the centuries, many commentators have attempted to make sense of these warnings. In this article, I will compare three commentators' interpretations of four hexagrams: Gu 蠱 [inline-graphic 01] (Decay, #18), Daguo 大過 [inline-graphic 02] (Crossing of the Great, #28), Kui 睽 [inline-graphic 03] (Discordance, #38) and Jian 蹇 [inline-graphic 04] (Crippled, #39). Through the comparison, I demonstrate how the Yijing can be used to address the human fear of uncertainty and chance.","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48422085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memory and Reproduction: A Study of 1980s Chinese Ethnic Korean Revolutionary Narratives Focusing on Yun Il-san’s The Roaring Mudan River","authors":"Haiying LI, Mingjie REN","doi":"10.21866/esjeas.2018.18.2.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/esjeas.2018.18.2.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kyōdaisei Onokun no senryōki gokuchū nikki (University of Kyōto student Ono’s occupation-era prison diary)","authors":"MARK E. CAPRIO","doi":"10.21866/esjeas.2018.18.2.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/esjeas.2018.18.2.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68654835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century by Soyoung Suh (review)","authors":"J. Flowers","doi":"10.21866/ESJEAS.2018.18.1.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21866/ESJEAS.2018.18.1.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41529,"journal":{"name":"Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"129 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48053365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}