Soju : a global history / Hyunhee Park, City University of New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Hyunhee, 1972- author.

Series:

Asian connections (Series)

Asian connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soju.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for soju's origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia. She demonstrates how the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wove together hemispheric flows of trade, empire, scientific and technological transfer and created the conditions for the development of a singularly Korean drink. Soju's rise in Korea marked the evolution of a new material culture through ongoing interactions between the global and local and between tradition and innovation in the adaptation and localization of new technologies. Park's vivid new history shows how these cross-cultural encounters laid the foundations for the creation of a globally connected world.

Contents:

Soju and Arak: The Eurasian Roots of Distilled Liquors

The Mongols and the Rise of Soju in Koryŏ Korea

Contextualizing Soju: Political Relations and Cultural Transfers between the Mongol Empire and Koryŏ Korea

Distilling Soju at Court and Home in Chosŏn Korea

Challenges of Modernity: The Rise of Industrial Soju and Revival of Traditional Soju

Alcohol Globalism: Distillation Technology in Afro-Eurasia and Other Areas of the World: The Cases of Japan and Mexico

Conclusion: Soju in Global Cross-cultural Exchanges.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108895774

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