Vladimir Tikhonov
Biographic Data
| ID | 275336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Tikhonov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Tikhonov |
| SIGNATURE | TIKHONOV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to the special issue
This special issue deals with the multifaceted roles of Professor Cho Seung-bog (Cho Sŭngbok 趙承福, 1922-2012), one of the founders of post-war Korean and Japanese studies in Sweden. Concurrently with his academic career, he was active in Korean diaspora socio political movements, including those advocating peace, democratization and reunification of North and South Korea. This special issue aims to clarify the deep interrelationship between Cho’s …
Cho Seung-bog – An Academic Life in Overlapping Contact Zones and the Meanings of Reversed Nihonjinron
This article reconstructs the transnational life and academic career of Cho Seung-bog (1922 2012)—a pioneering founder of Japanese and Korean studies in post-war Scandinavia— through a biographical and intellectual-historical lens. Tracing Cho’s trajectory from pre-war Manchuria and wartime Japan to Cold War America and neutral Sweden, it examines how his overlapping positionalities shaped his scholarship and activism for Korean unification and d…
Medicine meets red feminism
This article focuses on Yi Tǒgyo (1897–1932), a nurse-turned-doctor and one of the pioneering female physicians of colonial-age Korea. I aim to investigate how Yi’s medical practice and her understanding of public health and hygiene reflected both the general ideology of “medical modernity” and more specifically Yi’s socialist leanings, as well as her quest for a more gender-equal society. Furthermore, the article will explore the meanings of gen…
Incongruity of Nationalisms? Interactions between Korean National History and American Historians of Korea, the 1910s to 1980s
The heuristic starting point for this paper is a critical approach to the enterprise of modern historiography per se, based on the understanding of it as inherently bound by teleological epistemology. While “Korean nationalism” is the usual vantage point for the critique of modern Korean historiography, the current article attempts to reverse this analytical perspective and re-assess a number of attempts to write on Korean history by US-based his…
The Soviet Problem’ in Post-Soviet Russian Marxism, or the Afterlife of the USSR
The present article deals with different Marxist theories on the Soviet experience, which emerged in post-Soviet Russophone Marxist or neo-Marxist scholarship (concurrently with some reference to Marxist traditions in other former Eastern Bloc countries). The article demonstrates that these theories – if we leave the remaining ‘Marxist-Leninists’ of the classical Soviet type aside and focus on critical, post-Soviet Marxism – may be classified as …
The Rise and Fall of the New Right Movement and the Historical Wars in 2000s South Korea
The present article deals with one of the attempts by South Korea’s privileged stratum to undermine the very basis for any criticisms against the colonial-age behaviour of its institutional—and in many cases familial—forefathers, namely the so-called New Right movement. Simultaneously an academic and political movement, it was launched in 2004 and had been acting as advocates of a new, post-nationalist neo-conservatism until its recent decline, m…
Sin Ŏnjun (1904-1938) and Lu Xun's Image in Korea
Throughout the Japanese colonial period, Korea's reading public paid close attention to Chinese revolutions against Japanese and Western empires. Korean nationalists viewed China's revolutionary struggles as important for liberating Korea from Japan, a stance that reveals a transnational basis of Korean nationalism in the colonial era. One such nationalist was Sin Ŏnjun (1904-38),Tong'a Ilbo's Shanghai-based correspondent, who played a critical r…
Kim Saryang’s Ten Thousand Li of a Dull-Witted Horse- Remembering the Anti-Colonial Struggle
Kim Saryang (real name: Kim Sich’ang, 1914–1950) was among the Korean authors of the 1930s and 1940s who wrote frequently on the issues related to the Korean ethnonational identity, both in Korean and in Japanese. In May 1945, when dispatched on a lecture tour to the Japanese army units stationed in North China, he used this opportunity to escape and join the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains. His China diary…
Buddhist Modernities
Social Darwinism as History and Reality
By the time of Korea’s forced integration into the Japanese Empire in 1910, Social Darwinism was established as the main reference frame for the modernizing intellectual elite. The weak had only themselves to blame for their misfortune, and Korea, if it wished to succeed in collective survival in the modern world’s Darwinist jungles, had to strengthen itself. This mode of thinking was inherited by the right-wing nationalists in the 1920s–1930s; t…
Modern Korea and its Others
The period spanning the 1880s to 1945 was a crucially important formative time for Korea, during which understandings of modernity were largely shaped by the images of Korea's neighbours to the east, west and north. China, Japan and Russia represented at some moments modern threats, but also denoted a range of alternative modernity possibilities, and ultimately provided a model for Korea's pre-colonial and colonial modernity. This book explores t…
The Images of Russia and Russians in Colonial-Era Korean Literature
This essay deals with the images of Russia and Russians, as they appeared on the mental map of the world of Korea's intelligentsia of the 1930s, reflected in the prose and travelogues of that period. Politically, the attitudes toward the Soviet Union were sharply divided, with the radical Left (excluding the anarchists) offering almost unconditional support to the “motherland of the world's proletariat,” the moderate Left and moderate nonleftist …
Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations
South Korea's Christian Military Chaplaincy in the Korean War - religion as ideology
The present paper examines the military chaplaincy in the context of a problem which has long intrigued researchers, namely the reasons for the rapid growth of the Christian (Protestant and Catholic) churches in 1950-80s South Korea compared to Japan or Taiwan. The author suggests that, whereas a general answer to the question may be the use of Christianity as a de facto state ideology in the years 1948-1960 and its functioning as an ideology of …
The Japanese Missionaries and Their Impact on Korean Buddhist Developments (1876–1910)
This work deals with the interaction between the Japanese Buddhist missionaries and Korean monkhood in the turbulent early modern period of Korean history, which began with the conclusion of Korea's first "unequal " treaty with Japan in 1876 and ended with Japanese annexation of the whole country in 1910. As Korea was peripherized and increasingly drawn in Japan's fledgling sphere of influence in East Asia, Japanese modern Buddhism became a refer…
The Japanese Missionaries and Their Impact on Korean Buddhist Developments (1876–1910)
The Race and Racism Discourses in Modern Korea, 1890s-1910s
This article deals with the introduction of racial and racist discourses to Korea in the 1890s-1910s. The new, race-based taxonomic system overlapped with the pre-existing models of the worldwide civilizational hierarchy. Thus, the "barbarians" of the Confucian, China-centred world order evolved into the "savages," "aborigines," or "inferior races" essential for the new weltanschauung . Europeans, previously classified as "barbarians," were recla…
The Controversies on Fascism in Colonial Korea in the early 1930s
The paper deals with the trends of fascist and fascist-like right-wing social and political thought in colonial Korea in the early 1930s. It shows that in the 1920s, Korea's right wing, its ability to reach out to the masses being severely limited, preferred mostly conciliatory tactics in its relationship with leftist radicals, often making efforts towards inventing 'hybrid' ideologies which would integrate the leftist social concerns into the ma…
Transcending Boundaries, Embracing Others
If we wish to define Koreans twentieth century in a word, "the century of nationalism" would be the most plausible definition. From the perspective of Koreans internal socio-political situation, nationalism, as Andre Schmid aptly observed, from the very beginning provided the legitimising framework for the modern concept of equal, universal citizenship. Former slaves, members of discriminated hereditary professional groups (butchers etc.), women …
A Reflection on the Osama Bin Laden Killing
The following comment on the killing of Osama Bin Laden, abbreviated here, was first published in Korean in the widely read blog Hangyoreh Sarangbang, in early May, and then translated and published in Japanese shortly afterwards. Here the author provides an English version, and adds an introduction briefly surveying responses to the death in South Korea, particularly those of progressive sectors of South Korean opinion. APJ
One Religion, Different Readings
In colonial Korea (1910–1945), Buddhism’s sheer resilience and popularity drew attention of the Japanese colonial scholars, who initiated in the 1910s–1920s what they viewed as “scientific” study of Korean Buddhism. The attempts at “scientification” of Korean Buddhism research—exemplified by Keijō Imperial University professor Takahashi Tōru (1878–1967), also known for his research on Korean oral literature and Confucian philosophy—undoubtedly br…
Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea
The book deals with the influences Social Darwinism exerted upon Korea's modern ideologies in their formative period - especially nationalism – after its introduction to Korea in 1883 and before Korea's annexation by Japan in 1910. It shows that the belief in the "survival of the fittest" as the overarching cosmic and social principle constituted the main underpinning for the modernity discourses in Korea in the 1890s-1900s. Unlike the dominant i…
Militarism and Anti-militarism in South Korea
It is a well-known fact that warfare and obligatory military service system long played decisive role in the formation of modern nation-states, first in Europe and later elsewhere in the world. While externally the military prowess of a given state was (and still is) decisive for defining its place in a competitive international system explicitly based upon an equilibrium of military force and hegemonic interstate relations,1 internally conscript…
Selected Writings of Han Yongun
One of Korea’s most eminent Buddhists and political activists in the independence movement during the long years of Japan’s colonization of his country, Han Yongun , otherwise known as Manhae (1879-1944), was a prolific writer and outstanding poet, known especially for his poetry collection Nim ui ch’immuk (‘The Silence of the Lover’). This volume, however, concentrates on translations of his principal non-literary works, which are published here…
Religions of Korea in Practice
Masculinizing the Nation
This paper deals with ideal masculine types in the gender discourse of Korea's modernizing nationalists during the late 1890s and early 1900s. It begins by outlining the main gender stereotypes of Korea's traditional neo-Confucian society, and it argues that old Korea's manhood norms were bifurcated along class lines. On one hand, fighting prowess was accepted as a part of the masculinity pattern in the premodern society of the commoners. On the …
The Images of Russia and Russians in Colonial-Era Korean Literature
This essay deals with the images of Russia and Russians, as they appeared on the mental map of the world of Korea's intelligentsia of the 1930s, reflected in the prose and travelogues of that period. Politically, the attitudes toward the Soviet Union were sharply divided, with the radical Left (excluding the anarchists) offering almost unconditional support to the “motherland of the world's proletariat,” the moderate Left and moderate nonleftist …
Militarism and Anti-militarism in South Korea
It is a well-known fact that warfare and obligatory military service system long played decisive role in the formation of modern nation-states, first in Europe and later elsewhere in the world. While externally the military prowess of a given state was (and still is) decisive for defining its place in a competitive international system explicitly based upon an equilibrium of military force and hegemonic interstate relations,1 internally conscript…
The 1890s Korean Reformers' View of Japan – A Menacing Model
This paper explores the nuances of the perceptions of Japan by Korea's reformist press of the late 1890s, chiefly by Tongnip sinmun (1896–1899, edited by So Chaep'il and Yun Ch'iho). The main finding of the paper is that, despite the Christian reformists' avowed allegiance to the USA as their ideal model of “civilization”, Japan was taken as a practical model – an example of how a fellow East Asian country, which was supposedly “30 years ago even…
Masculinizing the Nation
This paper deals with ideal masculine types in the gender discourse of Korea's modernizing nationalists during the late 1890s and early 1900s. It begins by outlining the main gender stereotypes of Korea's traditional neo-Confucian society, and it argues that old Korea's manhood norms were bifurcated along class lines. On one hand, fighting prowess was accepted as a part of the masculinity pattern in the premodern society of the commoners. On the …
Selected Writings of Han Yongun
One of Korea’s most eminent Buddhists and political activists in the independence movement during the long years of Japan’s colonization of his country, Han Yongun , otherwise known as Manhae (1879-1944), was a prolific writer and outstanding poet, known especially for his poetry collection Nim ui ch’immuk (‘The Silence of the Lover’). This volume, however, concentrates on translations of his principal non-literary works, which are published here…
Religions of Korea in Practice
Militarism and Anti-militarism in South Korea
It is a well-known fact that warfare and obligatory military service system long played decisive role in the formation of modern nation-states, first in Europe and later elsewhere in the world. While externally the military prowess of a given state was (and still is) decisive for defining its place in a competitive international system explicitly based upon an equilibrium of military force and hegemonic interstate relations,1 internally conscript…
One Religion, Different Readings
In colonial Korea (1910–1945), Buddhism’s sheer resilience and popularity drew attention of the Japanese colonial scholars, who initiated in the 1910s–1920s what they viewed as “scientific” study of Korean Buddhism. The attempts at “scientification” of Korean Buddhism research—exemplified by Keijō Imperial University professor Takahashi Tōru (1878–1967), also known for his research on Korean oral literature and Confucian philosophy—undoubtedly br…
Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea
The book deals with the influences Social Darwinism exerted upon Korea's modern ideologies in their formative period - especially nationalism – after its introduction to Korea in 1883 and before Korea's annexation by Japan in 1910. It shows that the belief in the "survival of the fittest" as the overarching cosmic and social principle constituted the main underpinning for the modernity discourses in Korea in the 1890s-1900s. Unlike the dominant i…
A Reflection on the Osama Bin Laden Killing
The following comment on the killing of Osama Bin Laden, abbreviated here, was first published in Korean in the widely read blog Hangyoreh Sarangbang, in early May, and then translated and published in Japanese shortly afterwards. Here the author provides an English version, and adds an introduction briefly surveying responses to the death in South Korea, particularly those of progressive sectors of South Korean opinion. APJ
The Japanese Missionaries and Their Impact on Korean Buddhist Developments (1876–1910)
This work deals with the interaction between the Japanese Buddhist missionaries and Korean monkhood in the turbulent early modern period of Korean history, which began with the conclusion of Korea's first "unequal " treaty with Japan in 1876 and ended with Japanese annexation of the whole country in 1910. As Korea was peripherized and increasingly drawn in Japan's fledgling sphere of influence in East Asia, Japanese modern Buddhism became a refer…
The Japanese Missionaries and Their Impact on Korean Buddhist Developments (1876–1910)
The Race and Racism Discourses in Modern Korea, 1890s-1910s
This article deals with the introduction of racial and racist discourses to Korea in the 1890s-1910s. The new, race-based taxonomic system overlapped with the pre-existing models of the worldwide civilizational hierarchy. Thus, the "barbarians" of the Confucian, China-centred world order evolved into the "savages," "aborigines," or "inferior races" essential for the new weltanschauung . Europeans, previously classified as "barbarians," were recla…
The Controversies on Fascism in Colonial Korea in the early 1930s
The paper deals with the trends of fascist and fascist-like right-wing social and political thought in colonial Korea in the early 1930s. It shows that in the 1920s, Korea's right wing, its ability to reach out to the masses being severely limited, preferred mostly conciliatory tactics in its relationship with leftist radicals, often making efforts towards inventing 'hybrid' ideologies which would integrate the leftist social concerns into the ma…
Transcending Boundaries, Embracing Others
If we wish to define Koreans twentieth century in a word, "the century of nationalism" would be the most plausible definition. From the perspective of Koreans internal socio-political situation, nationalism, as Andre Schmid aptly observed, from the very beginning provided the legitimising framework for the modern concept of equal, universal citizenship. Former slaves, members of discriminated hereditary professional groups (butchers etc.), women …
South Korea's Christian Military Chaplaincy in the Korean War - religion as ideology
The present paper examines the military chaplaincy in the context of a problem which has long intrigued researchers, namely the reasons for the rapid growth of the Christian (Protestant and Catholic) churches in 1950-80s South Korea compared to Japan or Taiwan. The author suggests that, whereas a general answer to the question may be the use of Christianity as a de facto state ideology in the years 1948-1960 and its functioning as an ideology of …
Modern Korea and its Others
The period spanning the 1880s to 1945 was a crucially important formative time for Korea, during which understandings of modernity were largely shaped by the images of Korea's neighbours to the east, west and north. China, Japan and Russia represented at some moments modern threats, but also denoted a range of alternative modernity possibilities, and ultimately provided a model for Korea's pre-colonial and colonial modernity. This book explores t…
The Images of Russia and Russians in Colonial-Era Korean Literature
This essay deals with the images of Russia and Russians, as they appeared on the mental map of the world of Korea's intelligentsia of the 1930s, reflected in the prose and travelogues of that period. Politically, the attitudes toward the Soviet Union were sharply divided, with the radical Left (excluding the anarchists) offering almost unconditional support to the “motherland of the world's proletariat,” the moderate Left and moderate nonleftist …
Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations
Social Darwinism as History and Reality
By the time of Korea’s forced integration into the Japanese Empire in 1910, Social Darwinism was established as the main reference frame for the modernizing intellectual elite. The weak had only themselves to blame for their misfortune, and Korea, if it wished to succeed in collective survival in the modern world’s Darwinist jungles, had to strengthen itself. This mode of thinking was inherited by the right-wing nationalists in the 1920s–1930s; t…
Buddhist Modernities
Kim Saryang’s Ten Thousand Li of a Dull-Witted Horse- Remembering the Anti-Colonial Struggle
Kim Saryang (real name: Kim Sich’ang, 1914–1950) was among the Korean authors of the 1930s and 1940s who wrote frequently on the issues related to the Korean ethnonational identity, both in Korean and in Japanese. In May 1945, when dispatched on a lecture tour to the Japanese army units stationed in North China, he used this opportunity to escape and join the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains. His China diary…
The Rise and Fall of the New Right Movement and the Historical Wars in 2000s South Korea
The present article deals with one of the attempts by South Korea’s privileged stratum to undermine the very basis for any criticisms against the colonial-age behaviour of its institutional—and in many cases familial—forefathers, namely the so-called New Right movement. Simultaneously an academic and political movement, it was launched in 2004 and had been acting as advocates of a new, post-nationalist neo-conservatism until its recent decline, m…
Sin Ŏnjun (1904-1938) and Lu Xun's Image in Korea
Throughout the Japanese colonial period, Korea's reading public paid close attention to Chinese revolutions against Japanese and Western empires. Korean nationalists viewed China's revolutionary struggles as important for liberating Korea from Japan, a stance that reveals a transnational basis of Korean nationalism in the colonial era. One such nationalist was Sin Ŏnjun (1904-38),Tong'a Ilbo's Shanghai-based correspondent, who played a critical r…
Incongruity of Nationalisms? Interactions between Korean National History and American Historians of Korea, the 1910s to 1980s
The heuristic starting point for this paper is a critical approach to the enterprise of modern historiography per se, based on the understanding of it as inherently bound by teleological epistemology. While “Korean nationalism” is the usual vantage point for the critique of modern Korean historiography, the current article attempts to reverse this analytical perspective and re-assess a number of attempts to write on Korean history by US-based his…
The Soviet Problem’ in Post-Soviet Russian Marxism, or the Afterlife of the USSR
The present article deals with different Marxist theories on the Soviet experience, which emerged in post-Soviet Russophone Marxist or neo-Marxist scholarship (concurrently with some reference to Marxist traditions in other former Eastern Bloc countries). The article demonstrates that these theories – if we leave the remaining ‘Marxist-Leninists’ of the classical Soviet type aside and focus on critical, post-Soviet Marxism – may be classified as …
Medicine meets red feminism
This article focuses on Yi Tǒgyo (1897–1932), a nurse-turned-doctor and one of the pioneering female physicians of colonial-age Korea. I aim to investigate how Yi’s medical practice and her understanding of public health and hygiene reflected both the general ideology of “medical modernity” and more specifically Yi’s socialist leanings, as well as her quest for a more gender-equal society. Furthermore, the article will explore the meanings of gen…
Political science (19 works) · Politics (19 works) · History (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (17 works) · Japanese History and Culture (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)