Baojia of East Asia: Reorganization of substratum administration in Taiwan, Manchuria and China in the early 20th Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 93-154
Author(s):  
Myung-ki Moon
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century

scholarly journals Europeanization process in Hanoi in the early 20th Century – Viewed from changing social position of women

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. First
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Thúy Vy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Impact

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period that Western culture had a strong influence on East Asia countries. The need for finding new markets and expanding colonies of Western countries made most countries of East Asia were at risk of becoming Western colonies. This historical situation forced East Asia countries - whether they like it or not - to "Europeanize" and to absorb Western civilization achievements to survive. However, whether the impacts of Europeanization on values of culture were positive or negative, the Europeanization was strongly depended on the cultural characteristics and processes in each country. In the early twentieth century, under the impact of the process of Europeanization, large cities in Vietnam - especially Hanoi - greatly transformed the appearance and functions from medieval to early modern cities. Through research on the changing social position of Hanoi women in the process of Europeanization in the early 20th century on four dimensions: Time, space, human, and methods, the paper indicated the reasons, characteristics, rules, trends of the fluctuation of cultural values ​​in Hanoi in the early 20th century under the impact of the Europeanization process.

Sacharov, Alexander (1886–1963) and Von Derp, Clotilde (born von der Planitz) (1892–1974)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Veroli
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Modern Dancers

Alexander Sacharov and Clotilde von Derp formed one of the most celebrated dancing couples of the early 20th century. Born into different cultural contexts and trained in different techniques, they managed to join their individual talents into a performance style that was widely admired by their contemporaries. Sacharov was the first male modern dancer in Europe, while von Derp was among the early female modern dancers in the wake of Isadora Duncan’s 1904 path-breaking recital in Berlin. Their career spanned from 1910 until the 1950s, and reached its apex in the late 1910s and 1920s. Both believed in a dance subjected to the imperatives of music, and their dances made references to ancient Greece, to commedia dell’arte, and to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo eras. Indebted to symbolist aesthetics, their signature works eschewed showy mannerisms in favour of subtle and fluid expression, vibrant musicality, and vivid theatricality. (Alexander, a painter as well as dancer and choreographer, designed their costumes.) Touring across Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, Sacharov and von Derp participated in the global circulation of dance modernism.

Diagnosing and Debunking Korean Pseudohistory

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-80
Author(s):  
Andrew Logie
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Early State

In current day South Korea pseudohistory pertaining to early Korea and northern East Asia has reached epidemic proportions. Its advocates argue the early state of Chosŏn to have been an expansive empire centered on mainland geographical Manchuria. Through rationalizing interpretations of the traditional Hwan’ung- Tan’gun myth, they project back the supposed antiquity and pristine nature of this charter empire to the archaeological Hongshan Culture of the Neolithic straddling Inner Mongolia and Liaoning provinces of China. Despite these blatant spatial and temporal exaggerations, all but specialists of early Korea typically remain hesitant to explicitly label this conceptualization as “pseudohistory.” This is because advocates of ancient empire cast themselves as rationalist scholars and claim to have evidential arguments drawn from multiple textual sources and archaeology. They further wield an emotive polemic defaming the domestic academic establishment as being composed of national traitors bent only on maintaining a “colonial view of history.” The canon of counterevidence relied on by empire advocates is the accumulated product of 20th century revisionist and pseudo historiography, but to willing believers and non-experts, it can easily appear convincing and overwhelming. Combined with a postcolonial nationalist framing and situated against the ongoing historiography dispute with China, their conceptualization of a grand antiquity has gained bipartisan political influence with concrete ramifications for professional scholarship. This paper seeks to introduce and debunk the core, seemingly evidential, canon of arguments put forward by purveyors of Korean pseudohistory and to expose their polemics, situating the phenomenon in a broader diagnostic context of global pseudohistory and archaeology.

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