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Lee Sang got hooked on writing in the seven years from early 1930 to early 1937. This period corresponds with the period from the Manchurian incident(1931) and the first Shanghai incident to the Sino-Japanese war. This period is crucial, as it predicted the tragic fate of East Asia in the Pacific war ahead. Lee Sang was never insensitive to the international situation of East Asia. But this factor of his work was unwatched because of shocking literary style and tumultuous scandal. This paper explores the political nature of Lee Sang's literature by tracing East Asia's international situation in 1930s, as incapsulated in his work. Secret references and attention to the situation in East Asia, including the Shanghai incident, occur frequently in Lee Sang's work. There is a room for some works, which have received little attention, to be read in a historical, political context. Ogamdo (crow's eye view), Lee Sang's major work, reveals the political (un)consciousness of the author although there is no reference to the international situation. Lastly, this paper points out that it is important to understand the interrelationship among Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. They are three basic places represented in Lee Sang's work.