Part I. Russia : an oriental occident?
Russia as a threat and a hope in Korean intellectual life, 1880s to 1945
The joys of utopia, the sorrows of exile : Russia, Russian and the USSR in Korean colonial-period literature
Part II. China : centre-turned-periphery-turned hope for the future
The other to learn from at a distance : China in the pre-1910 modern Korean press
Aliens in our midst and the hope for the future : the image of China and Chinese in 1910s-30s Korea
Part III. Japan : model and conqueror, eternally alien?
To learn from Japan in order to overcome it : Japan as the significant other in the Korean intellectual life of the 1900s-1920s
The assimilation which never happened : Korean-Japanese mixed marriages in colonial Korea.