The 19th-century International Law of the West and the Japanese Colonialization of Korea: Political Meaning of a Self-reliant State
The 19th-century International Law of the West and the Japanese Colonialization of Korea: Political Meaning of a Self-reliant State

Summary/Abstract: Carl Schmitt once stated that “a people is only conquered when it subordinates itself to the foreign vocabulary, the foreign construction [Vortellung] of what law, especially international law, is.” If this is true, the three East Asian states – Joseon (Korea), China, and Japan – were completely subordinated to the rule of Western imperialism in the mid-19th century when traditional Sinocentric world order collapsed and the Western international law was generally introduced.

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