Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Andre Schmid
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Description for Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Turning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence of language and social discourse on conceptions of nationalism, national identity, and the nation-state. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFD; JPFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representation, narrative, and rhetoric in the construction of public sentiment, Andre Schmid traces the genealogies of cultural assumptions and linguistic turns evident in Korea's major newspapers during the social and political upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Newspapers were the primary location for ... Read more
Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representation, narrative, and rhetoric in the construction of public sentiment, Andre Schmid traces the genealogies of cultural assumptions and linguistic turns evident in Korea's major newspapers during the social and political upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Newspapers were the primary location for ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125383
SKU
V9780231125383
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About Andre Schmid
Andre Schmid is associate professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Schmid provides a stimulating tour of current theorizing about the nation and nationalism... profoundly stimulating and highly recommended. Choice A breathtaking historiography, magisterial in sweep, elegant in structure, lucid in idiom, and insightful and illuminating in interpretation... The book's strengths are likely to make it an unrivaled work of scholarship on modern Korea for a long time to come. American ... Read more