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Anarchism in Korea
Dongyoun Hwang
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Beyond Independence: The Dawn of Korean Anarchism
in China 19
Chapter 2
The Wind of Anarchism in Japan 57
Chapter 3
Pushing the Limits in Colonial Korea 89
Chapter 4
Korean Anarchists in Wartime China and Japan 117
Chapter 5
Deradicalized Anarchism and the Question of National
Development, 1945–1984 157
Conclusion 209
Notes 221
Bibliography 259
Index 281
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and Syntheses,” organized by Lucien van der Walt and Steve Hirsch.
I would like to thank the two organizers, particularly Lucien, for his
helpful comments. I also would like to thank Walter K. Lew for his
invitation to participate in the conference at UCLA in 2005 and his
enthusiastic support.
As a result of my participation in these seminars and conferences,
parts of this book have been published earlier in “Beyond Independence:
The Korean Anarchist Press in China and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s,”
Asian Studies Review 31 (March 2007): 3–23, and “Korean Anarchism
before 1945: A Regional and Transnational Approach,” in Anarchism
and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940: The
Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution,
edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt, 95–129 (Leiden:
Brill, 2010). I am grateful to the publishers, Taylor and Francis (www.
tandfonline.com), and Brill, for giving me permission to reproduce
them in this book.
I received a Short-Term Research Travel Grant in Korean Stud-
ies from the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for
Asian Studies (AAS) in March 2004, which funded my first short trip
to South Korea for collection of important materials and for my first
publication on Korean anarchism in 2007. A Summer Research Grant
in 2006 from the Pacific Basin Research Center at Soka University of
America also helped me to take another short trip to South Korea in
2006 for this study. And the Faculty Research Fund from my home
institution, Soka University of America, funded in part my short trips
to Tokyo in April 2014, and to Quanzhou, Fujian in June 2015. Impor-
tant parts of this study were funded and done from March to May in
2008, and in March 2014, when I received a Field Research Fellowship,
respectively, from the Korea Foundation.
Last but not least, I would like to thank my family. I hope this
book can reward my parents for their life dedicated to their children’s
education. I miss my deceased mother-in-law who always enjoyed
supporting my research. My sisters have always provided me with
timely emotional supports when I needed it. And I want to acknowl-
edge the presence of my dear wife, Mihyun, in this book. It is not that
she read the manuscript but that her love and dedication have been
the main sources of support and inspiration to complete this project,
for which I dedicate this book to her with love.
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idea. The reason [for the difficulties] was due to that their
enemy was the only one―Japanese imperialism. My life is
one that has drifted along with this kind of contradiction
inside.16
The first half of my life had gone through a life for struggle
for independence movement, and [then in the second half]
turned for a movement for social revolution of an ideological
idea [sic] that has been viewed in this world, without any
good reason, as too extreme. [The second half has been]
a life as one of the pioneers, who has been indulged in
anarchism, that is, no-government movement [mujeongbu
juui undong].18
Japan. In Shanghai they interacted with other Asian radicals and anar-
chists, as well as their compatriots, with all of whom they would
come to share national and/or social goals, let alone begin various
activities together.
The Korean anarchist discourse was to go far beyond indepen-
dence and present problems pertinent both to their society and the
world, which would result in the production of radical culture and
language with their own meanings attached to them. Korean anar-
chists, of course, were not initial producers of the discourse and lan-
guage. For example, a language of revolution was a contribution of
the Paris Chinese anarchists, while the problem of modernity was
what the Tokyo Chinese anarchists had wrestled with.38 The resistance
against centralized authority was the focus of the Japanese anarchists
between the mid-1910s and 1923. And Ōsugi Sakae’s (1885–1923) pas-
sionate commitment to “individual liberation” in his support of the
aims and methods of anarcho-syndicalism39 could have been deeply
influenced how Bak Yeol (1902–1074) and his fellow Japan-based
anarchists understood the importance of individuals in making an
anarchist society, as I demonstrate in chapter 2.40 The point here is
the significance of the interaction itself, and the resulting mutual
inspiration and influence among East Asian anarchists in the rise of
anarchism in East Asia.
Kim San particularly notes the special influence of Japan in radi-
cal thinking among Koreans and the outcome of it as the following:
CLASS I. TENTACULATA
Ctenophora provided with a pair of tentacles in the larval stages only
or in both larval and adult stages.
Order I. Cydippidea.
This order includes a number of spherical or oval Ctenophores, with
a pair of tentacles retractile into deep tentacular pits in the adult
stage.
Fam. 1. Mertensiidae.—The body is compressed in the transverse
plane, and the ribs on the transverse areas are longer than those on
the sagittal areas. The family includes the genus Euchlora, which
occurs in the Mediterranean and in the northern part of the Atlantic
Ocean. In Charistephane there are only two enormous ctenophoral
plates in each of the longitudinal tracts. These plates are so broad
that they almost meet laterally to form two continuous circlets round
the body of the animal. This genus is found in the Mediterranean, but
a few specimens have also been obtained in the Atlantic.
The name Mertensia has been given to several forms that are
undoubtedly the young stages of genera belonging to the Lobata, but
Chun retains the name M. ovum for a species which is very
abundant in the Arctic currents of the North Atlantic.
The characters that separate the families of Lobata are chiefly those
of varying size, shape, and position of the peristomial lobes and
auricles. In the Lesueuriidae the peristomial lobes are rudimentary;
in the other families they are moderately or very large. In the
Bolinidae the auricles are short, but in most of the other families they
are long and ribbon-like. In Eucharis they can be spirally twisted in
repose.
The order contains only fifteen genera, but they are usually arranged
in the following eight families:—
1. Lesueuriidae. Lesueuria.
2. Bolinidae. Bolina, Bolinopsis.
3. Deiopeidae. Deiopea.
4. Eurhamphaeidae. Eurhamphaea.
5. Eucharidae. Eucharis.
6. Mnemiidae. Mnemia, Mnemiopsis.
7. Calymmidae. Calymma.
8. Ocyroidae. Ocyroe.
Most of these Ctenophores occur in the warm and tropical seas; but
Bolina is found occasionally at Plymouth in the month of May, on the
west coast of Ireland, and at other stations on the British coasts.
Eucharis is regarded as one of the most beautiful of the Phylum. A
swarm, some miles in length, of large specimens of E. multicornis
was met by the Plankton Expedition in the south equatorial current of
the Atlantic during the month of September.
Fig. 182.—Cestus pectenalis. Ab, aboral sense-organ; Ct, the sagittal ribs; M,
mouth. (After Bigelow.)
C. pectenalis was found in abundance off one of the Maldive Islands
[431] and differs from C. veneris in having a large and prominent
orange patch at each end of the body. It is said to be extremely
graceful in the water, moving with slow, ribbon-like undulations, and
shining in the sunlight with a violet iridescence. Vexillum, from the
Mediterranean Sea and Canary Islands, is rather more pointed at the
extremities than Cestus, and differs from it in some important
anatomical characters.
Fig. 183.—Coeloplana mitsukurii, floating at the surface of the sea with the
dorsal side downwards. T, T, the tentacles expanded. (After Abbott.)
Appendix to Ctenophora
BY
CHAPTER XVI
ECHINODERMATA—INTRODUCTION—CLASSIFICATION—ANATOMY OF A
STARFISH—SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF ASTEROIDEA
(1) Eleutherozoa,
(2) Pelmatozoa.[439]
The sub-phylum Pelmatozoa, to which the living Feather-stars
(Crinoidea) and the majority of the known fossil species belong, is
characterised by the possession of a fixing organ placed in the
centre of the surface opposite the mouth—the aboral surface as it is
called. Ordinarily this organ takes on the form of a jointed stalk, but
in most modern species it is a little knob with a tuft of rooting
processes, termed cirri. In the other sub-phylum, the Eleutherozoa,
no such organ is found, and the animals wander about freely during
their adult life, though for a brief period of their larval existence they
may be fixed by a stalk-like protuberance arising from the oral
surface.
SUB-PHYLUM I. ELEUTHEROZOA
The Eleutherozoa are divided into four main classes, between
which no intermediate forms are found amongst the living species,
though intermediate types have been found fossil.
The four classes into which the Eleutherozoa are divided are defined
as follows:—
Very few and feeble muscle-fibres exist in the body-wall, and the
movements of the arms, as a whole, are very slow and limited in
range. There is a membranous lip surrounding the mouth, from
which five broad grooves run outwards, one on the underside of
each arm. These are termed the "ambulacral grooves." Each groove
is Λ-shaped, and its sides are stiffened by a series of rod-like
ossicles called the "ambulacral ossicles."
The animal progresses by the aid of a large number of translucent
tentacles, termed "tube-feet" or "podia," which are attached to the
walls of the ambulacral grooves.
The anus is situated near the centre of the upper surface of the disc,
but it is so minute as to require careful inspection in order to discover
its position (Fig. 185).
On the under side of the animal the most conspicuous features are
the five ambulacral grooves which radiate out from the "peristome," a
thin membranous area surrounding the central mouth. The grooves
are filled with the tube-feet, which are closely crowded together and
apparently arranged in four rows.
Fig. 187.—A, Asterias rubens, seen from the oral surface, drawn from a living
specimen, × 1. B, an adambulacral spine, showing three straight
pedicellariae; C, a tube-foot expanded and contracted.