Events & Dates
This 1919 event in Korea was a massive public protest against Japanese rule.
What is the March First Movement?
What was the first country in northeast Asia to be fully colonized by another country?
Korea in 1910.
This influential iconoclastic magazine was a key publication of the New Culture Movement in China, featuring articles by leading intellectuals.
What is New Youth?
In The New Woman, the protagonist Wei Ming works in this profession before becoming a film star.
What is a music teacher?
This 1894-95 conflict demonstrated Japan's rising military power and marked a major shift in regional dominance away from China.
What is the First Sino-Japanese War?
Edward Said's term for the way the West constructs a stereotyped and subordinate "East."
What is Orientalism?
This historical figure's journey is traced from the Forbidden City to the Fushun prison.
Who is Puyi?
In Anarchist from Colony, Park Yeol and his comrades plan to acquire these items to disrupt a visit from the Japanese crown prince.
What are bombs?
At this 1919 conference, the Allied powers transferred German concessions in China to Japan, sparking outrage and contributing to the May Fourth Movement.
What is the Versailles Peace Conference?
This political philosophy advocates for self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions and the abolition of all compulsory government.
What is Anarchism?
A Japanese anarchist and nihilist, she was the partner of Park Yeol and was tried alongside him for high treason.
Who is Kaneko Fumiko?
In The New Woman, which purchased object represents the challenges faced by young independent women as well as their resilience in the face of those obstacles?
"The woman who cannot topple over" toy.
This 1868 event marked the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and set Japan on a rapid course of modernization, laying the groundwork for its imperial expansion into Korea and China.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This concept describes the deliberate destruction of established icons, traditions, or institutions.
What is iconoclasm?
The trial of anarchist Park Yeol and his partner Kaneko Fumiko occurred after this 1923 natural disaster in Japan.
What is the Great Kanto Earthquake?
In The Last Emperor, Puyi's brief experience of agency is symbolized by him learning to do this activity.
What is riding a bicycle?
The "Manchurian Incident" of this year led directly to the formation of the puppet state of Manchukuo.
What is 1931
This term describes a state of persistent insecurity with a lack of material or psychological welfare, as seen in the life of the protagonist in The New Woman.
What is precarity?
This key intellectual figure, a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, was also the founder and editor of the influential magazine New Youth.
Who is Chen Duxiu?
The tragic ending of The New Woman is driven by the protagonist's struggle against this, echoing Edward Said's ideas about framing and representation.
What are malicious newspaper reports / media stereotypes?