[KS] Re: Collaboration

[David McCann]

>Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:21:41 -0500
>To:"Horace H. Underwood" <hhu at fulbright.or.kr>
>From:dmccann at fas.harvard.edu (David McCann)
>Subject:Re: Collaboration
>
>Horace Underwood's comments prompt me to another set of questions.  It is
>notable in this discussion (!) that the term for collaboration is not
>collaboration, but (being) close to Japan.  And then the question arises,
>who wasn't, according to the use of that term?  But what is the opposite
>of collaboration?  Or somewhat differently, can there be collaboration
>that is not tied specifically to the Japanese occupation period?  Were
>there no other periods or moments in Korean history when the people were
>made subject to the hegemonic courtesies of the state?  And what happened
>when the state changed ITS identity?  For example, one "opposite" to
>/collaboration/ is the Chinese-character phrase ilp'yôn tansim, as used in
>the famous sijo song attributed to Chông Mong-ju, in the song the
>character Ch'unhyang sings as she is being beaten for resisting the (new)
>corrupt governor's advances, and in a number of places in the Veritable
>Records of the Chosôn dynasty, though all of the latter occur centuries
>after the Chông Mong-ju incident.
>It may be useful to pursue the question or the issue not only through its
>various permutations during the period of the Japanese occupation, but
>also into a deeper historical contextualization: a diachronic view, as
>well as the more focused synchronic one.  And if attention to earlier
>history is encouraged, then also, perhaps, some attention to the histories
>and experiences of other countries as well?
>
>D. McCann




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