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Invented Traditions in North and South Korea / ed. by Codruța Sîntionean, Andrew David Jackson, CedarBough Saeji, Remco Breuker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hawai'i Studies on KoreaPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 8 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780824890476
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09519 23
LOC classification:
  • DS916.27 .I68 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Invented Traditions in Korea—Contention and Internationalization -- PART I REIMAGINING TRADITION: HISTORY AND RELIGION -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Authenticating the Past: Filling in Gaps with the Tan’gi kosa -- Chapter 2 Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory -- Chapter 3 Imagining Ancient Korean Religion: Sŏndo, Tan’gun, and the Earth Goddess -- Part II Rewriting tradition: language -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 The Language of the “Nation of Propriety in the East” (東方禮儀之國)? The Ideological History of the Korean Culture of Politeness -- Chapter 5 Re-invented in Translation? Korean Literature in Literary Chinese as One Epitome of Endangered Cultural Heritage -- Part III Consuming and Performing tradition: music, food, and Crafts -- Introduction -- Chapter 6 Split-Bamboo Comb: Heritage, Memory, and the Space In-between -- Chapter 7 Tradition as Construction: Embedding Form in Two Korean Music Genres -- Chapter 8 Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P’ansori as an Invented Tradition -- Chapter 9 The State Leader as Inventor of Food Traditions in the DPRK -- Part IV embodying tradition: spaces -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 Spatializing Tradition: The Remaking of Historic Sites under Park Chung Hee -- Chapter 11 Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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 highly contentious. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering: (1) history, religions, (2) language, (3) music, food, crafts, and finally, (4) space. It includes chapters on pseudo-histories, new religions, linguistic politeness, literary Chinese, p’ansori, heritage, North Korean food, architecture, and the invention of children’s pilgrimages in the DPRK. As the first comparative study of invented traditions in North and South Korea, the book takes the reader on a journey through Korea’s epic twentieth century, examining the revival of culture in the context of colonialism, decolonization, national division, dictatorship, and modernization. The book investigates what it describes as “monumental” invented traditions formulated to maintain order, loyalty, and national identity during periods of political upheaval as well as cultural revivals less explicitly connected to political power. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea demonstrates that invented traditions can teach us a great deal about the twentieth-century political and cultural trajectories of the two Koreas. With contributions from historians, sociologists, folklorists, scholars of performance, and anthropologists, this volume will prove invaluable to Koreanists, as well as teachers and students of Korean and Asian studies undergraduate courses.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Invented Traditions in Korea—Contention and Internationalization -- PART I REIMAGINING TRADITION: HISTORY AND RELIGION -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Authenticating the Past: Filling in Gaps with the Tan’gi kosa -- Chapter 2 Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory -- Chapter 3 Imagining Ancient Korean Religion: Sŏndo, Tan’gun, and the Earth Goddess -- Part II Rewriting tradition: language -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 The Language of the “Nation of Propriety in the East” (東方禮儀之國)? The Ideological History of the Korean Culture of Politeness -- Chapter 5 Re-invented in Translation? Korean Literature in Literary Chinese as One Epitome of Endangered Cultural Heritage -- Part III Consuming and Performing tradition: music, food, and Crafts -- Introduction -- Chapter 6 Split-Bamboo Comb: Heritage, Memory, and the Space In-between -- Chapter 7 Tradition as Construction: Embedding Form in Two Korean Music Genres -- Chapter 8 Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P’ansori as an Invented Tradition -- Chapter 9 The State Leader as Inventor of Food Traditions in the DPRK -- Part IV embodying tradition: spaces -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 Spatializing Tradition: The Remaking of Historic Sites under Park Chung Hee -- Chapter 11 Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions -- Contributors -- Index

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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 highly contentious. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering: (1) history, religions, (2) language, (3) music, food, crafts, and finally, (4) space. It includes chapters on pseudo-histories, new religions, linguistic politeness, literary Chinese, p’ansori, heritage, North Korean food, architecture, and the invention of children’s pilgrimages in the DPRK. As the first comparative study of invented traditions in North and South Korea, the book takes the reader on a journey through Korea’s epic twentieth century, examining the revival of culture in the context of colonialism, decolonization, national division, dictatorship, and modernization. The book investigates what it describes as “monumental” invented traditions formulated to maintain order, loyalty, and national identity during periods of political upheaval as well as cultural revivals less explicitly connected to political power. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea demonstrates that invented traditions can teach us a great deal about the twentieth-century political and cultural trajectories of the two Koreas. With contributions from historians, sociologists, folklorists, scholars of performance, and anthropologists, this volume will prove invaluable to Koreanists, as well as teachers and students of Korean and Asian studies undergraduate courses.

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