LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Romain Rolland, The New Masses, Proletarian Literature
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Author relates the natural world to the spiritual world. Region north of the korean border, in manchuria. East ka(cid:374)do ya(cid:374)(cid:271)ia(cid:374) korea(cid:374) auto(cid:374)o(cid:373)ous prefe(cid:272)ture (cid:894)(cid:1006) (cid:373)illio(cid:374) korea(cid:374)s toda(cid:455)(cid:895) Nationalist historians (shin chaeho) invoke goguryo past. New migrants use history + myths (tangun, paektu) to legitimize their presence. Used to be a big region, could reclaim land. For korean farmers: land of freedom and opportunity. For writers: land of exploitation, symbol of all the woes of korea (loss of sovereignty, forced migration, exploitation by foreign powers, poverty) Themes of life in manchuria: relationships between the chinese and the koreans. Sacred, forbidden region - open to immigration by the qing in the 1870s. Large migrations of koreans from the end of the 19th century. Long and difficult journey for the chinese. Koreans have an incentive to move there: they were doing very well. People were forced out because they were unable to pay their taxes and afford to live there.
