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SUMMARY:Britain\, Modernity and the Change of Historical Consciousness in 
 Korea\, 1960-2000 - Professor Young-Suk Lee\, Professor of Gwangju Univers
 ity and Visiting fellow at Wolfson College
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CONTACT:Dr Elizabeth C Blake
DESCRIPTION:In this lunch-time seminar\, I would like to survey the resear
 ch trends of British history in Korea. The late 1970s is a turning point i
 n the studies of British history in Korea\, because historians’ focus wa
 s rapidly changed from the Tudor-Stuart period to the nineteenth century. 
 While old scholars were interested in the English Revolution or the format
 ion of the modern state\, younger historians began to focus on industriali
 zation\, labour movement or socialism in nineteenth-century Britain.\n\nWh
 at does this change mean? It is true that historians are apt to be influen
 ced by the political and social situations of their country. British histo
 rians in Korea have tried to interpret British history from the perspectiv
 e of the Korean situation. Especially they seem to have had a kind of the 
 'modern complex'. Here\, the complex means a belief or a prejudice that Ko
 rea has not yet reached to modern society completely\, and that the Korean
  people should find a desirable path towards modernization by studying the
  historical processes of West European countries.\n\nAfter successful mode
 rnization\, the young historians who belong to the third generation of Bri
 tish studies in Korea seem to overcome the complex. Nowadays they are crit
 icizing Euro-centrism inherent in Western historiography. Of course\, it w
 ould be somewhat difficult for them to find a new interpretation of world 
 history as an alternative of the existing historiography based upon Euro-c
 entrism.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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