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Re-writing World Literature through Juxtaposition: Decolonizing Comparative Literature in Vietnam

  • Pham, Chi P.;Do, Ninh H.
    • 수완나부미
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.9-29
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    • 2022
  • Postcolonial critics have criticized Comparative Literature for exclusively studying literatures from the non-Western world through Western lenses. In other words, postcolonial criticism asserts that theorists and practitioners of comparative literature have traced the "assistance" of the classic "comparison and contrast" approach to an imperialist discourse, which sustains the superiority of Western cultures and economies. As a countermeasure to reading through the comparative lens, literary theories have offered a "juxtapositional model of comparison" that connects texts across cultures, places, and times. This paper examines practices of Comparative Literature in Vietnam, revealing how the engagement with decolonizing processes leads to a knowledge production that is paradoxically colonial. The paper also analyses implementations of this model in reading select Vietnamese works and highlights how conventional comparisons, largely based on historical influences and reception, maintain the colonial mapping of World Literature, centralizing Western, and more particularly, English Literature and in the process marginalizing the others. Therefore, the practice of juxtaposing Vietnamese literary works with canonical works of the World Literature will provoke dialogues and raise awareness of hitherto marginalized works to an international readership. In this process, the paper considers the contemporary interest of Comparative Literature practice in trans- national, trans-regional, trans-historical, and trans-cultural perspectives.

16세기 중국 지식사회와 서양 지식체계의 접점에 관한 일고찰 - 천문학과 세계지도를 중심으로 -

  • 김세종
    • 중국학논총
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    • 제63호
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    • pp.251-273
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    • 2019
  • China in the sixteenth century was exposed to various problems, and the surrounding nations were growing as potential threats by building up their powers and forming an unstable political state by losing control of civilization in politics, economy, knowledge, ideas and ideas. Especially, Mateo Ricci's knowledge and ideas were enough to attract the Chinese knowledge society. However, the influx of Western astronomy and world maps was not only a substitute for the notion of heaven and earth of Chinese tradition, but it destroyed all the knowledge and ideology of China, the foundation of political power and knowledge power. It transformed China in the center of the world into China in some parts of the world. It also brought about a great change in the civilization map of culture and savagery. As a result, the relationship between 'center and periphery', 'civilization and barbarians' could not be established, and the title of Chinese as a unique and exclusive civilization could no longer be maintained.

서양 대표사상의 서비스철학성 연구 (A Study on the Service Philosophy of Major Western Ideology)

  • 김현수
    • 서비스연구
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    • 제9권3호
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2019
  • 본 연구는 선행연구들에 이어서 서비스철학 정립을 위해 서양 대표사상의 서비스철학성을 고찰하였다. 선행 연구들을 참조하여 서비스철학의 구조와 운용모델을 종합하여 제시하고, 서양 대표사상의 서비스철학성을 분석하였다. 시대별로 서양 대표사상을 분석하였는데, 고대 지중해 철학, 아테네철학을 서비스구조 관점에서 상세히 분석하고, 근대 사상과 현대사상은 서비스 운용모델 정합성 관점에서 자세히 분석하였다. 서비스의 무형성과 과정성 특징이 서양 대표사상의 세계관과 부합하는지를 분석하고, 서비스의 본질적 특성인 관계성, 쌍방향성, 수평성, 조화성이 서양대표사상에서 공통적으로 강조되고 있는지를 분석하였다. 또한 서비스의 나선형 발전 모델이 서양대표사상에서의 세계 발전 모델과 정합되는지도 고찰하였다. 고대 사상에서 근대사상까지 주류 사상들은 대립물의 변증법적 발전을 강조하고 있어 서비스의 태극형 기본 구조가 서양 사상에서의 세계의 운행구조와 부합되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 고대에서 현대 사상에 이르기까지 순환론과 과정론이 중심사상으로 나타나고 있어 프로세스가 가치를 창출하는 서비스 운용모델과 일관성이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 관계성과 조화성은 대다수의 서양사상가들이 세상의 근본 운행원리로 제시하고 있으며, 쌍방향성과 수평성도 세상의 이상적인 운영모델로 제시되고 있다. 서양 대표사상들을 활용하여 서비스철학을 보다 심화시킬 수 있으며, 인류사회를 이끌어가는 사상으로서 서비스철학이 중심 역할을 할 수 있음이 확인되었다. 향후 신경제사회의 중심사상으로서 서비스철학의 구조와 운용원리를 완성하기 위한 후속 연구들이 필요하다. 미래 경제사회 발전을 견인하는 큰 사상으로서 서비스철학 완성 연구가 필요하다.

농업발전(農業發展) 이론연구(理論硏究) (I) - Fei-Ranis의 경제사적(經濟史的) 접근방법(接近方法)을 중심(中心)으로 - (An Inquiry into Agricultural Development Theory (1) - Fei-Ranis's Historical Approach and its Relevance to Less Developed World -)

  • 이호철
    • Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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    • 제1권
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    • pp.239-253
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    • 1983
  • This study attempted to introduce Fei-Ranis's agricultural development theory and discuss its problem for the rural development of less developed world. Fei-Ranis systematized the development process of Western European economy on the ground of dualism. They divided the process into 4 stages by the concept of 'mode of operation'. Paticularly, they consider agrarian mercantilism as take-off stage and its development were achieved by the increase of trade margin and labor productivity. Especially, they thought that only agricultural revolution through the diffusion of internal exchange economy and construction of tree-star system can accomplish favorable transition to industrial capitalism. In order to promote this agricultural development, less developed world must abolish short-run agricultural policy and propel 'learning by the contact' strategy through 'tree-star system' and 'parellel development.' In reality, it was problematic that the contemporary less developed world is trying, in the course of a few decades, to imitate Western European experience with development over the last four centuries. But Fei-Ranis ignored qualitative aspects of agricultural development by tree-star system and also it is criticized that they considered agricultural development process of less developed world follows only that of Western European classical process.

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세계시장을 위한 한국적 패션디자인의 개발 (Development of Korean Fashion Design for the World Market)

  • 공미선;채금석
    • 복식
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    • 제54권2호
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2004
  • This research aims at the development of Korean fashion design for the world market, which combines the western beauty and Korean tradition into the product design focusing on the styling concept. Through the example-analysis of structural elements which form Europe and Korean fashions, the styling concepts of functional change, beauty-combination, and tradition-conservation. are derived. The results are as follows : 1. Functionality needs to be improved by the structural change and the development of new materials from the traditional materials. 2. Beauty should come from the combination of natural patterns and western-spatial allocation, as well as from the front combination of western-beauty. 3. Tradition needs to be kept as Korean beauty and representation skills in the colors, accessaries, and in the spatial design. The styling concept for Korean fashion design in this research is related to the visual structural elements, and is not expanded to the styling concept of Korean image and/or feeling. Therefore future researches may follow on these un-expanded points. and also may continue the wide comparison between the Korean fashion design and oriental image fashion in Europe.

Okakura Kakuzō's Art History: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Hegelian Dialectics and Darwinian Evolution

  • Racel, Masako N.
    • Asian review of World Histories
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.17-45
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    • 2014
  • Okakura Kakuz$\bar{o}$ (1863-1913), the founder of the Japan Art Institute, is best known for his proclamation, "Asia is One." This phrase in his book, The Ideals of the East, and his connections to Bengali revolutionaries resulted in Okakura being remembered as one of Japan's foremost Pan-Asianists. He did not, however, write The Ideals of the East as political propaganda to justify Japanese aggression; he wrote it for Westerners as an exposition of Japan's aesthetic heritage. In fact, he devoted much of his life to the preservation and promotion of Japan's artistic heritage, giving lectures to both Japanese and Western audiences. This did not necessarily mean that he rejected Western philosophy and theories. A close examination of his views of both Eastern and Western art and history reveals that he was greatly influenced by Hegel's notion of dialectics and the evolutionary theories proposed by Darwin and Spencer. Okakura viewed cross-cultural encounters to be a catalyst for change and saw his own time as a critical point where Eastern and Western history was colliding, causing the evolution of both artistic cultures.

The Cultural Differences between Eastern and Western Epics through the Comparison of Satan in Paradise Lost and Monkey King in the Journey to the West

  • Zhu, Tianyuan
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.151-157
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    • 2019
  • This study tries to evaluate the similarities and differences between Paradise Lost and the Journey to the West through the characteristics of Satan and Monkey King. In Paradise Lost, the spirit of Satan revolts God is just like the spirit of Bourgeois revolts the Feudal Aristocracy; however, Monkey King's figure in the Journey to the West is a character with rebellious spirits. In the western world, they often advocate punishments afterward, while the eastern world notes social orders and rules. Although eastern epics have distinct differences toward western epics due to the different cultural and historical backgrounds, the results that the winners at the end always get supreme powers are the same.

콜럼부스의 대서양 항해 -항해의 경과와 역사적 의의를 중심으로- (A Case Study focused on Columbus's Sailing - A Study on the European Expansion in the later Middle Age -)

  • 김성준
    • 한국항해학회지
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    • 제21권1호
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    • pp.33-55
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    • 1997
  • The European expansion in the later middle age, as Adam Smith stated, influenced greatly on development of the world history. In the various events of the European expansion the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus is very important because the effect of the discovery of the New World have still continued to the present. I have interested to find out the reason why the western civilization has seized on the hegemony of the world over other civilizations. As many scholars pointed out, the most distinguished difference between the western civilization and other civilizations is that the western civilization was maritime-oriented, while other civilization were continental-oriented. So I set up the maritime histoy on the theme of my study in order to ruminate upon meaning of the se-power that is one of the motivating forces to drive histoy. Maritime history is not simply about that is maritime affairs, but a branch of history that inquires into inter-relations between maritime affairs and inland affairs. Maritime history constitutes of history of naval war, history of shipping and history of marine development. As above reasons, I have interested the European expansion in the later middle age that maritime activity was the most vigorous in the history. This is a case study to compose maritime history.

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