Dr. Mi-Ryong Shim, Pacific University, “The Return of the Native: Japan’s Wartime Pan-Asianism and the Aesthetic Production of “Korea” in Yi Hyo-sŏk’s Late Colonial Writings”

Professor Mi-Ryong Shim is a scholar at Pacific University specializing in the imperialisation, conversion and Pan-Asian regionalism in the late colonial era in Korea. In this seminar, in particular, Professor Mi-Ryong Shim examines the works of novelist Yi Hyo-sŏk in detail, in order to demonstrate his writings exemplify the chaotic period in which such movements were born, and how his works help define the abstract term called “Koreanness”.

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