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Kritika Kultura

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5488-4421

Abstract

An examination of data from the academic databases CNKI, DBpia, and CiNii indicates that the reception of Fredric Jameson’s works in China, South Korea, and Japan can be traced back to the early 1980s. Shaped by their distinct historical and political contexts, each country has developed its own academic discourse surrounding Jameson’s theories. In China, Jameson’s intellectual presence began in 1986, marked by Tang Xiaobing’s article “Postmodernism: Commodification and Cultural Expansion—An Interview with Fredric Jameson.” Since then, over 1,100 research documents on Jameson have been published in China, covering a wide array of topics such as Marxism, postmodernism, globalization, and utopia, as well as his influence on literature, film, architecture, and visual culture. South Korea’s engagement began in 1984 with the translation of The Development of Dialectical Literary Theory by Yeo Hong-sang and Kim Young-hee. South Korean scholarship focuses heavily on Jameson’s theories of the political unconscious and postmodernism, with significant studies on the application of these ideas to film and literature. Japan’s reception of Jameson began with the translation of Marxism and Form in 1980, followed by an increase in scholarly interest post-2006, especially in the areas of postmodernism, historicism, and utopia. Although all three countries began engaging with Jameson’s theories in the 1980s, China leads in both the volume and speed of scholarly production, followed by South Korea and Japan. China emphasizes Jameson’s Marxist and postmodern theories, whereas South Korea highlights an interdisciplinary engagement with his works. Japan’s engagement, centered mainly on translation, remains comparatively limited due to its lack of a socialist history and colonial experience.

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