Kang Sang-gyu: Paradigm Shift in 19th-Century East Asia and Imperial Japan

9: After the new Millennium has started, which has been ominously opened by terrorism 11, we are being caught in the wave of some ‘massive transformation.’. The world of the future Matrix, represented by the cyberspace of the Internet and the information revolution, has become our ‘ everyday life.'. A sort of collective unconsciousness that, if not created a new ‘ civilization standard, ’ is doomed to an infinite competition wanders around us like a ghost. The world is becoming more anxious than it is in the cold of ideological confrontations. What is changing now and what is not changing? In the 19th century we were not able to pass the mighty struggle of civilization and private transitions. We were expelled from a new stage, which was changed in the 19th century because of lack of smoke and had to look away at other actors' performances. The results were devastating, and in the first half of the 20th century, the Korean peninsula had to face a kind of colonial experience with its own masters, a severe distortion of public consciousness, a rise and spread of intense and exclusive resistance, a division of national opinion and war, and extreme ideological conflict and political conflict. The writer here was again convinced that he should not go back to the source of the problem. What was happening in East Asia in the 19th century? What made China not adapt to the new paradigm shift, and what led Japan, the neighboring East Asia, to rush across the framework of modern sovereign states into the empire, where it came from and through what route? What kind of a chain and break-off was being made in this process, and how is it going to connect with the world that I live in today?

Korean title: 19세기 동아시아의 패러다임 변환과 제국 일본

Korean author: 강상규

Korean publisher: 논형

ISBN-13: 9788963572215