The Korean War Discussion Questions

The Korean War Discussion Questions

This week, you can earn three (3) extra points toward your participation grade by completing the following prompt:

Choose one event listed on our timeline (Links to an external site.), date it, explain it, and situate it on the correct place in our timeline. A full list of events can be found on the handout Download handout. You can choose any event but make sure that you don’t duplicate. Write at least one paragraph (minimum of 5 sentences, bullet points will not be accepted).

In your post, you can address the 5 W’s of the event: Who, What, When, Where, Why. write 150 words around

2. Read: Tanizaki Junichiro, Namoi

Discuss the jarring contrast between Ryang’s modernity and the one depicted by Tanizak in his novel. How do we reconcile the two?

3 Read: Sonia Ryang, “The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Massacre of Koreans in 1923: Notes on Japan’s Modern National Sovereignty”

DISCUSS Why do you think Sonia Ryang selected the concept of homo sacer in order to make sense of the 1923 massacre of 6,000 Korean people living in mainland Japan by a combination of police and vigilantes? How does the notion of the “unsacrificeable Korean” help her make an argument about the nature of Japanese modernity?

 

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