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This article focuses on the Korean views of China in 1896&ndash1910, when Korea was nolonger dependent on the crisis-ridden Qing dynasty and was struggling with thesame modernization tasks as China. Although Korean views of China in that periodwere alike in that they were underpinned by the modernist paradigm, they differedin accordance with the political and intellectual standpoints of different observers. Allthe differences notwithstanding, most newspapers in Korea in the late 1900s carriedthe news on the Chinese revolutionary activities, so that the name of Sun Yat-sen waswell known in Korea even before the Xinhai Revolution of 1911&ndash12. This preexistingknowledge of the Chinese revolutionary movement laid the foundation for the futureparticipation of a number of the Korean nationalist emigres in the Xinhai Revolution.It was also a harbinger of the close cooperation between Korea&rsquos emigres and theGuomindang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the late 1920s&ndash30s |
