Sun Joo Kim

The Northern Region of Korea (eBook, ePUB)

History, Identity, and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Marxism. 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, the authors creatively explore unfamiliar terrain while examining the culture, identity, and regional distinctiveness of the northern region and its people. They investigate how the northern part of the Korean peninsula developed and changed historically from the early Choson to the colonial period and come to a consensus regarding the importance of regionalism as a vital factor in historical transformation, especially in regard to Korea's tumultuous modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 415
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295802176
• Artikelnr.: 44784841

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Maps, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
Introduction: Thinking Through Region Sun Joo Kim
1. Residence and Foreign Relation in the Peninsular Northeast During the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Kenneth R. Robinson
2. Choson-Qing Relations and the Society of P'yongan Province During the
Late Choson Period / Kwon Naehyun
3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of
P'yongan and Hamgyong Provinces / Jan Yoo-Seung
4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in
Eighteenth-Century "Hearsay Accounts" (kimun) / Jung Min
5. P'yongan Dialect and Regional Identity in Choson Korea / Paek Doo-Hyeon
6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P'yongan Christians, Korean
Spelling Reform, and Orthographic Fundamentalism / Ross King
7. From Periphery to a Transnational Frontier: Popular Movements in the
Northwestern Provinces, 1896-1904 / Yumi Moon
8. Subversive Narratives: Hwang Sunwon's P'yongan Stories / Bruce Fulton
9. The Missionary Presence in Northern Korea before WWII: Human Investment,
Social Significance, and Historical Legacy / Donald N. Clark
10. The Northern Region of Korea as Portrayed in Russian Sources,
1860s-1913 / German King and Ross King
11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905-1945 / Mark E. Caprio
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Maps, Figures, and Tables
MAPS
Korea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
2.1 Road Used by Choson Envoys to Visit the Qing
11.1 Birth Rates
11.2 Literacy Rates
FIGURES
2.1 Illustration of Choson Envoy to Qing
5.1 Dialect and Regional Identity
9.1 Missionary Compound in P'yongyang
TABLES
2.1 Qing Embassies to Choson
2.2 Choson Embassy's Sojourn in Days by Region
2.3 Cultivated Land and Land Tax Revenues by Province in 1807 -
2.4 Silver Presented to Qing Envoys and Interpreters in the Late Eighteenth
Century by Province, in Yang
2.5 Central and Provincial Government Silver Loans to Choson Embassies, in
Yang
2.6 Shenyang P'alp'o Trade Privileges by Province, in Number of P'alp'o
Granted
2.7 Products Traded at the Chunggang Market, by Province
5.1 Editions of the Iryun haengsilto
5.2 Word Comparison Among Three Editions
5.3 Comparison Between the Yongyong and Haeyong Editions
5.4 Editions of the Nogoltae
5.5 Editions of the Yombul pogwonmun
5.6 Word Comparison Between the Tonghwa Temple and Yongmun Temple Editions
5.7 Editions of the Kyongminp'yon
6.1 Contemporary Standard Korea and P'yongan Dialects
9.1 Korean Christian Mission Statistics (as of June 30) 1908