Books by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
Peer reviewed Articles by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
Revista Internacional de Estudios Asiáticos, Jan 1, 2024
Este artículo analiza las interacciones tempranas entre los protestantes japoneses y c... more Este artículo analiza las interacciones tempranas entre los protestantes japoneses y coreanos en Japón, quienes llegaron a Tokio a estudiar durante el período 1880-1895. Se argumenta que este encuentro jugó un papel crucial en la generación de un entusiasmo significativo entre los protestantes japoneses por diseminar sus enseñanzas religiosas en Corea a través de la evangelización. El artículo se divide en tres partes. Primero, se contextualiza el surgimiento del protestantismo en relación con la relación bilateral en evolución entre Japón y Corea; segundo, se profundiza en la interacción entre los estudiantes coreanos y los protestantes japoneses a inicios de 1880; y tercero, se examina el debate emergente entre los protestantes japoneses en tanto al potencial para actividades misioneras en Corea conectándolas a iniciativas educativas tempranas emprendidas por protestantes japoneses en el contexto coreano.
History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, Jul 19, 2023
By examining the widespread enthusiasm for education during the Japanese occupation of Korea (191... more By examining the widespread enthusiasm for education during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945), this article sets out to contribute to historiography on so-called ‘education fever’ (kyoyungyŏl), which so far has largely concentrated on researching the period after 1945. In the 1920s and 1930s the term was used to describe a multifaceted phenomenon that was driven by a striving for upward social mobility and the idea of national self-strengthening. Based on a wide range of sources including newspapers and journals, official documents as well as missionary reports, the article argues that ‘education fever’ was, on the one hand, closely linked to Korean nationalism, whose proponents made frequent recourse to the ubiquitous phenomenon in order to strengthen Korean political power through education. On the other hand, despite efforts to restrict school access, colonial authorities to a certain degree were forced to respond to these demands for education, highlighting Korean agency in the process.
History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, 2023
Editorial
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review , Dec 1, 2017
The contributions of Korean and Taiwanese authors to the many and varied formulations of interwar... more The contributions of Korean and Taiwanese authors to the many and varied formulations of interwar pan-Asianism have so far remained a relatively unexplored subject of scholarly research, despite an unbroken interest in the trajectory of state-based Japanese pan-Asianism. Focusing on Korean students and independence activists, this article discusses alternative configurations of regional unity and solidarity that emanated from the interactions among Korean, Taiwanese, and other Asian actors who resided in Tokyo during the 1910s and 1920s. When the ethnic-nationalist interpretations of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination failed to materialize, a portion of anti-colonial activists in Asia began to emphasize the need for solidarity by drawing on what they perceived as traditional and shared " Asian " values. While challenging the Western-dominated international order of nation-states that perpetuated imperialism, such notions of Asian solidarity at the same time served as an ideology of liberation from Japanese imperialism. Examining journals published by Korean students and activists, including The Asia Kunglun, this article adds another layer to the history of pan-Asianism from below, a perspective that has often been neglected within the larger context of scholarship on pan-Asianism and Japanese imperialism in Asia.
Paedagogica Historica. International Journal of the History of Education, Dec 2016
This article sets out to elucidate the role of Japanese Protestants in the education of Koreans d... more This article sets out to elucidate the role of Japanese Protestants in the education of Koreans during the early twentieth century. Scholarship has often assigned only marginal roles to Japanese Protestants within the history of Japanese imperialism, despite the remarkable success of western missionaries in Korea at the time. As imperial expansion progressed, Japanese Protestants intensified their efforts to take up a leading role in the education of Koreans in colonial Korea and in the metropole wishing to spearhead the assimilation of Koreans. By drawing on the colonial discourses of East Asian unity under Japanese leadership, Protestant churches strove to mediate and facilitate colonial policies in Korea. Yet there were also voices of dissent from prominent Japanese Protestants critical of the assimilation policies implemented by colonial authorities in Korea. This ambivalent stance of Protestantism towards Korea is further complicated by the fact that the Korean Young Men’s Christian Association in Tokyo served as an important venue of the Korean Independence Movement. Examining Christian magazines and journals of the time, this paper delves into the contentious debates among Japanese Protestants concerning the Korea Mission and the Japanese government’s strategy of assimilation through education.
Book Chapters by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner, and Ian Tyrrell (eds.): SPREADING PROTESTANT MODERNITY: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE SOCIAL WORK OF THE YMCA AND YWCA, 1889–1970, 2020
Yonson Ahn (ed.): Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea, Dec 15, 2019
During the early 1920s Tōkyō, as the capital of an expanding empire, attracted many independence ... more During the early 1920s Tōkyō, as the capital of an expanding empire, attracted many independence activists, students and intellectuals from Korea and adjacent countries in Asia. The city can thus be seen as a contact zone in which the transgressive lives of peoples with different backgrounds, but similar objectives and ideas converged (Pratt 1992, 6; Goebel 2015, 6). This chapter explores the pan-Asian journal The Asia Kunglun (J: Ajia kōron; K: Asia kongnon) which was published in Tōkyō by the Korean independence activist Yu T’aekyŏng between May 1922 and January 1923 bringing together a wide array of authors from Korea, Taiwan, India and China and Japanese proponents of Taishō liberalism. Unfulfilled hopes of national liberation in the wake of the March First Movement in Korea and the Paris Peace Conference 1919 had prompted reconfigurations within the Korean independence movement including the adoption of new ideologies such as Marxism or pan-Asianism without relinquishing the ultimate goal of independence. Against this backdrop, the question how Korean authors drafted new visions of a united “Asia” and utilized them as an expedient device to denounce Japanese colonial rule in Korea and other parts of Asia in their contributions to The Asia Kunglun warrant closer inspection...
Bob de Graaff (ed.): Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference, 2020
Dr. Stephan Blancke (ed.): East Asian Intelligence and Organised Crime: China - Japan - Korea - Mongolia, Sep 23, 2015
Articles / Other Publications by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
Jane's Intelligence Review, 2018
South Korean President Moon Jae-in came to power with a pledge to reform the country’s National I... more South Korean President Moon Jae-in came to power with a pledge to reform the country’s National Intelligence Service. I analyse the changes that have already taken place and the prospective reforms to the country’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Jane's Intelligence Review, 2018
Book Reviews by Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
Pacific Affairs, Dec 2016
The International Journal of Asian Studies, Jan 2016
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591415000261
Comparativ: Between Leisure, Work and Study: Tourism and Mobility in Europe from 1945-1989, (02/2014), S. 130-31, Oct 2014
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H-Soz-Kult , Jan 21, 2014
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participating in transnational and transcontinental networks like the Korean independence movement and the YMCA movement. Based on a wide array of Japanese and Korean sources, comprising newspapers, student journals, diaries, and memoirs, this presentation focuses on the Korean students’ independence movement in Japan and the interaction between Japanese Protestants and Korean students revolving around the Korean YMCA in Tokyo and the journal Ajia koron.
I argue that Japanese Protestants initially played a key role in mediating Japanese colonialism and its civilizing mission in Korea. By the same token, however, this mediating role also operated in the opposite direction: meeting, interacting, and intellectually engaging with Korean student and independence activists in contact zones such as the Korean YMCA in many cases correlated with a comparatively appreciative view on Korean positions, which in turn fed into the thinking and journalistic work of these well-known liberal intellectuals and Protestants in Japan.
Existing research tends to subordinate colonial history to the main narratives of imperial history, leaving little room for the agency of the colonized. To overcome the prevailing top-down approach to imperial history, this presentation places Korean and Japanese actors at the center providing a multi-layered perspective on Japan’s regional entanglements. The presentation examines these complex dynamics, emphasizing the centrality of East Asian colonies to the intellectual history of the Meiji and Taisho periods.