L3 - End of Choson & Colonial Encounters Flashcards
How does Conservatism of Choson affect its society?
- Leads to instability
- The vested interests of Choson elites contributes to the government’s inability to adapt to changing geopolitical conditions
What are some revolutionary ideas?
- enlightenment thought? (group of Yangbang, who may be younger to see the future of the gov )
- Universalism: against the notion of innate social hierarchies
When does Japan opened to trade + diplomacy with the West?
1854
When does Korea forced to open by Japan? What treaty established? What does it say?
1876
Kanghwa Treaty
- Open trade to Japan,
-satisfied Japanese demands for recognition of its government
-Disruption relationship to China + adopting new diplomatic strategies with the West
Which 2 wars happened in response to rivalry over Korean in the end of Choson?
- Japan and China (Sino-Japanese war 1894-95)
- Japan and Russia (1904-05).
When does international forces/internal forces/cultural changes happens?
in the end of Choson dynasty
What is International Forces?
- between Japan & China
Rivalry竞争 of Korea’s neighbors and Western powers: crises of sovereignty主权
What is Internal Forces?
-Revolutionary faction within Yangban and scholar
Political reform movement, competing interests between establishment and reformers
What is Cultural Changes?
- More trades–>population increase–>bring in new ideas
resulting from transformative action of global markets, reform, new ideologies
What is the driving force of regaining Korean independence?
Korean Nationalism
- also as a reform movement
What does “decentering China” affect the relationship between Korea + China?
- Gradual rupture of this special relationship
- transformation of Korea’s traditional worldview
What does Kapsin Coup do?
- They want to reform Choson + seize power
Outcomes of Kapsin Coup?
- Progressives are discredited by association with Japan military forces
- strengthened Chinese influence in Korea and brought conservative factions back
- Beginning of decade-long Chinese intrusion 入侵 and military rivalry竞争 with Japan
Time table of phases of dominant foreign influence in Korea?
China (1884-1894)
Japan (following Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95)
Japanese-Russian rivalry (1896-1904)
Japanese ascendency (1904-5)
What does Dismantling the old order mean?
- Choson foreign relationship with China: ritually subordinate position to China and not any other emperor in ease-Asia
- refuse to recognize Meiji state –>invites punitive惩罚性的 military action by Japan
What is Japan’s Ascendancy 优势，支配地位？
- After defeated Russia (1905)
- Earlier defect of China in 1894-1895–>Korea accepts J’s “advice”
What is Kabo? What do they do?
- Create new gov, targeted at confusion organization, they want to re-define the Choson order
- Pro-Japanese
- Young scholars switch to focus to foreign language, western history
- Kabo reforms effectively cut old class system (in Choson period, people showed a lot to show their class)
What are some effects of Kabo reforms?
effectively destroy the mechanisms of reproducing and maintaining the old class system:
- eliminate civil exam system –>remove traditional status distinctions
- reform of visible differences in social class
Which 2 people are responsive of decisive end of Choson dynasty?
- Assassination of Queen Min (killed by anti-Janp)
- King Kojong
(last Choson King, flees to Russian embassy; admitting Choson’s inability to maintain sovereignty)
What is modernity? How is modernization used to justify colonialism?
-Modernity: civilized project, used for justification for colonial progression and conquest, is much the case in Korea and North Africa
How does colonialism affect the colonizer as well as the colonized?
-Civilization and colonial–>as a gift for colonizer
What are the stakes of national history, language, and culture in a colonized space?
-Contemporary knowledge (if you are threatened, it become much more important), partialism
