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One of main themes found in Hyoseok Yi’s literatures is West-oriented Consciousness. His passion and earning toward the West is not about worshipping the West, but about pursuing the world without any class difference between nations and ethnic groups, so called ‘Cosmopolitanism’. The objective of this paper is to investigate the significance of Harbin as a space in relation to the author (Yi)’s experience based on the his unique view of cosmopolitanism. These three novels, <flowerpot>, <Byeokgongmuhan>, and <Harbin> shows the transition in his consciousness before and after the trip to Manchuria, where he embodied the space, ‘Harbin’with the motif in travel. Harbin before the trip to Manchuria was portrayed as a surreal space of idealism that can accomplish ‘cosmopolitanism’, also as a substituting space of the West. However, the ‘Harbin’ after travelling the region is portrayed as a realistic space of skepticism where it is impossible to accomplish ‘cosmopolitanism'. As a result, Yi's Harbin is a space where it is connected with imagination and experience with the rest of the world, surpassing regional idea and system in the East. Therefore, it symbolizes a space where one can experience all of dream, hope, despair and skepticism.
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Cosmopolitanism, Manchuria, Harbin, Travel, Out of Boundary
