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11%OFFSun Joo Kim - The Northern Region of Korea. History, Identity, and Culture.  - 9780295990415 - V9780295990415
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The Northern Region of Korea. History, Identity, and Culture.

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Description for The Northern Region of Korea. History, Identity, and Culture. Paperback. Through the use of storytelling, linguistic analysis and journal entries from turn-of-the-century missionaries and traveling Russians in addition to many varieties of unconventional primary sources, this book explores unfamiliar terrain while examining the culture, identity and regional distinctiveness of the northern region and its people. Editor(s): Kim, Sun Joo. Series: Center for Korea Studies Publications. Num Pages: 415 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 684.

The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. The making and legitimating of centralized Korean nation-states over the centuries, however, have marginalized the northern region and its distinct subjectivities.

Contributors to this book address the problem of amnesia regarding this distinct subjectivity of the northern region of Korea in contemporary, historical, and cultural discourses, which have largely been dominated by grand paradigms, such as modernization theory, the positivist perspective, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
Series
Center for Korea Studies Publications
Number of Pages
415
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295990415
SKU
V9780295990415
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About Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo Kim is a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of Marginality and Subversion in Korea. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson.

Reviews for The Northern Region of Korea. History, Identity, and Culture.
"Sheds light on many aspects of Korean history and culture that have long been ignored. . . . opens doors to further scholarship not only on northern Korean but also on other regions . . . a path-breaking addition to the field of Korean studies."
Sean C. Kim
The Journal of Asian Studies
“The book is a ... Read more

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