The power of the brush : epistolary practices in Chosŏn Korea / Hwisang Cho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cho, Hwisang, author.

Contributor:

Sorensen, Clark W., editor.

port of Emory University, funder.

Series:

Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HISTORY / Asia / Korea.

Letter writing, Korean.

Korean letters.

Calligraphy, Korean--Choson dynasty.

Calligraphy, Korean.

Calligraphy, Korean--History--Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910.

Letter writing, Korean--History.

Korean letters--History and criticism.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2020

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Cho Hwisang : Hwisang Cho is assistant professor of Korean language at Emory University. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2010. This will be his first book.Sorensen Clark W. : Clark W. Sorensen is professor of international studies and anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where he is also director of the Center for Korea Studies. He is the author of Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization (University of Washington Press, 1988) and coeditor of Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy and Cultural Influence (Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington, 2011).Hwisang Cho is assistant professor of Korean studies at Emory University.

Summary:

"Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an "epistolary revolution" in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women using vernacular Korean script, who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. The physical peculiarities of new letter forms such as spiral letters, the cooptation of letters for purposes other than communication, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres combined to form a revolution in letter writing that challenged traditional values and institutions. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: A Story of Letter Writing in Twenty-First-Century Korea

Letter Writing in Korean Written Culture

The Rise and Fall of a Spatial Genre

Letters in Korean Neo-Confucian Tradition

Epistolary Practices and Textual Culture in the Academy Movement

Social Epistolary Genres and Political News

Contentious Performances in Political Epistolary Practices

Epilogue: Legacies of the Chosŏn Epistolary Practices.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780295747828

029574782X

OCLC:

1141959360