The great East Asian war and the birth of the Korean nation / JaHyun Kim Haboush [and four others], editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haboush, JaHyun Kim, author, editor.

Contributor:

Haboush, William, editor.

Kim, Jisoo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Korea--History--16th century.

Nationalism.

Korea--History--Japanese Invasions, 1592-1598.

Korea.

Korea--History--Japanese Invasions, 1592-1598--Influence.

Korea--History--Manchu Invasions, 1627-1637.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636.By documenting this phenomenon, JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival. Re-creating the cultural and political passions that bound Chosôn society together during this period, Haboush reclaims the root story of solidarity that helped Korea thrive well into the modern era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Map of Choso˘n Korea

INTRODUCTION

1 THE VOLUNTEER ARMY AND THE DISCOURSE OF NATION

2 THE VOLUNTEER ARMY AND THE EMERGENCE OF IMAGINED COMMUNITY

3 WAR OF WORDS: The Changing Nature of Literary Chinese in the Japanese Occupation

4 LANGUAGE STRATEGY: The Emergence of a Vernacular National Space

5 THE AFTERMATH: Dream Journeys and the Culture of Commemoration

PUBLICATIONS OF JAHYUN KIM HABOUSH

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231540988

0231540981

OCLC:

979776924