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This chapter examines connections between three modern capital cities—Berlin, Tokyo and Seoul—to show the ways a dominant cultural heritage was transferred to heterogenous cultural environments in the colonial periphery, autonomously appropriated by the colonized, and then transformed into a postcolonial “lieu de mémoire.” Chun examines three main points of discussion: Prussian classicism as a cardinal legacy of German national culture, the Japanese appropriation of Prussian classicism, and the German-Japanese cultural legacy in the Korean capital city Seoul before and after national liberation. These specific points highlight the fact that colonial intervention in an indigenous space created a yawning chasm between the modern city and its historical past.
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Chun, JS. (2018). Specters of Schinkel in East Asia: Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul from a Viewpoint of Modernity/Coloniality. In: Cho, J., Roberts, L. (eds) Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea. Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95224-3_5
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