Seoul : : Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave /

Seoul : : Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave / / Ross King.

Seoul is a colossus both in its physical presence and the demand it places on any intellectual effort to understand it. How did it come to be? How can a city this immense work? Underlying its spectacle and incongruities is a city that might be described as ill at ease with its own past. The bitter r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
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King, Ross,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 60 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: Contested Memory
  • CHAPTER 2. ERASURE AND REINVENTION: Korea to 1945
  • CHAPTER 3. RE-IMAG(IN)ING THE NATION: Seoul and Park Chung-hee
  • CHAPTER 4. ERASURE AS HERITAGE: Reading Seoul
  • CHAPTER 5. NEW CULTURE: Seoul in the Korean Wave
  • CHAPTER 6. IMAGINING THE NATION: Reinvention and Its Conditions of Possibility
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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