Tyrannical Tigers and Endangered Cats: Why Are the Korean Scholar-Bureaucrats Always So Important in Modern Japan? (Zoom)
Discipline : Society
Speaker(s) : Shimpei Cole Ota (Associate Professor of Korean Studies; Associate Professor of Museum Studies; Research Associate of Anthropology·National Museum of Ethnology, Japan; Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan; American Museum of Natural History, NY)
Language : English

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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Tyrannical Tigers and Endangered Cats: Why Are the Korean Scholar-Bureaucrats Always So Important in Modern Japan?


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The Korean scholar-bureaucrats (yangban) have been drawing public attention among Japanese intellectuals since the beginning of the 20th century. This lecture reviews how Japanese magazines represented yangban, tracing how their image changed from the evil noblemen that kept Korean society stagnant to the graceful embodiers of vanishing authentic Korean culture. Both these images, and even the transition from one to the other, were driven by a Japanese version of orientalism.


This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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