Invented traditions in North and South Korea /

Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions, cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin-is still relevant, important and high...

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Other Authors: Jackson, Andrew David (Editor), Sîntionean, Codruța (Editor), Breuker, Remco E., 1972- (Editor), Saeji, CedarBough (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, [2022].
Series:Hawaiʻi studies on Korea.
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Table of Contents:
  • Authenticating the Past: Filling in Gaps with the Tan'gi kosa / Remco Breuker
  • Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory / Andrew Logie
  • Imagining Ancient Korean Religion: Sŏndo, Tan'gun, and the Earth Goddess / Don Baker
  • The Language of the "Nation of Propriety in the East"?: The Ideological History of the Korean Culture of Politeness / Eunseon Kim
  • Re-invented in Translation? Korean Literature in Literary Chinese as One Epitome of Endangered Cultural Heritage / Andreas Schirmer
  • Split-Bamboo Comb: Heritage, Memory, and the Space In-between / Laurel Kendall
  • Tradition as Construction: Embedding Form in Two Korean Music Genres / Keith Howard
  • Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P'ansori as an Invented Tradition / Jan Creutzenberg
  • The State Leader as Inventor of Food Traditions in the DPRK / Maria Osetrova
  • Spatializing Tradition: The Remaking of Historic Sites under Park Chung Hee / Codruța Sîntionean
  • Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren's March and North Korean Invented Traditions / Robert Winstanley-Chesters.