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The Faraway Bride · Theme
Cultural Clash and Colonialism
How The Faraway Bride develops Cultural Clash and Colonialism.
The setting in Japanese-occupied Manchuria highlights the confusion of nationalities and hierarchies, with Chinese soldiers, Korean peasants, Japanese landlords, and Western missionaries all interacting in a landscape of power imbalance and misunderstanding.
Where it surfaces
- Author's Note
The note describes the complex ethnic hierarchy in Kanto (Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Russians) and the tensions arising from Japanese colonial ambitions, Chinese sovereignty, and Russian statelessness.
- VI
Wilfred's critique of Korean grave customs as heathen, contrasted with Seryozha's acceptance, and Wilfred's narrative of Christian education as a path to worldly advantage.