The northern region of Korea : history, identity & culture / edited by Sun Joo Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Sun Joo, Author.

Contributor:

Kim, Sun Joo, 1962-

Series:

Center for Korean Studies publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--Korea (North)--Hwanghae-bukto.

Regionalism.

Regionalism--Korea (North)--Hamgyŏng-bukto.

Regionalism--Korea (North)--P'yŏngan-bukto.

Ethnicity--Korea (North)--Hwanghae-bukto.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity--Korea (North)--Hamgyŏng-bukto.

Ethnicity--Korea (North)--P'yŏngan-bukto.

Hwanghae-bukto (Korea)--History.

Hwanghae-bukto (Korea).

Hamgyŏng-bukto (Korea)--History.

Hamgyŏng-bukto (Korea).

P'yŏngan-bukto (Korea)--History.

P'yŏngan-bukto (Korea).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Northern region of Korea : history, identity and culture

Place of Publication:

Seattle [Wash.] : Center for Korean Studies, University of Washington : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Editor's Note

Introduction: Thinking Through Region - Sun Joo Kim

1. Residence and Foreign Relations in the Peninsular Northeast During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - Kenneth R. Robinson

2. Chosŏn-Qing Relations and the Society of P'yŏngan Province During the Late Chosŏn Period - Kwon Naehyun

3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of P'yŏngan and Hamgyŏng Provinces - Jang Yoo-Seung

4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in Eighteenth-Century "Hearsay Accounts" (kimun) - Jung Min

5. P'yŏngan Dialect and Regional Identity in Chosŏn Korea - Paek Doo-Hyeon

6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P'yŏngan 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 Sunwŏn's P'yŏngan 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 Kim and Ross King

11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905-1945 - Mark E. Caprio

Glossary

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

"The Center for Korea Studies publication series."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295802176

0295802170

OCLC:

742517282