| Autor: |
Guoxian Jin, Younghan Cho |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Korean History, Vol 25, Iss 2, Pp 11-44 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1598-2041 |
| DOI: |
10.22372/ijkh.2020.25.2.11 |
| Popis: |
This study illuminates the continuity as well as disruption between the colonial and the Cold War periods by exploring the roles of sports during the Cultural Cold War in Korea. For this purpose, this study examines Lee Sangbaek’s (1904-1966) sports activities with a focus on his Olympic movements both for Imperial Japan and postcolonial South Korea. By reading his writings and news reportages on him between 1920 and 1965, his biography and previous studies, we highlight key narratives of Lee’s Olympic movements, which are summarized as “sport for amateurism,” “sports not of nation but of state,” and “sport through internationalism.” These narratives were strategies that Lee had to embrace or deploy in order to survive or prosper as a post/colonial elite in different historic stages. His transition from colonial elite to the founding figure in postcolonial society reveals not only the dilemmas and disruption of colonial intellectuals, but also undeniable connections between the colonial and the Cold War regimes in Korea. The review of Lee’s participation in sport throughout the liberation period provides a useful reference point for understanding the cultural politics of the Olympics in East Asia from the past to the present. |
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