Invented Traditions in North and South Korea

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2022

Invented Traditions in North and South Korea

Edited by: Andrew David Jackson , Codruța Sîntionean , Remco E. Breuker and CedarBough Saeji
With contributions by: Don Baker , Remco E. Breuker , Jan Creutzenberg , Keith Howard , Andrew David Jackson , Laurel Kendall , Eunseon Kim , Andrew Logie , Maria Osetrova , CedarBough Saeji , Andreas Schirmer , Codruța Sîntionean and Robert Winstanley-Chesters

In the series Hawai'i Studies on Korea

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824890476

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About this book

Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions—cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin—is still relevant, important, and highly contentious. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering: (1) history, religions, (2) language, (3) music, food, crafts, and finally, (4) space. It includes chapters on pseudo-histories, new religions, linguistic politeness, literary Chinese, p’ansori, heritage, North Korean food, architecture, and the invention of children’s pilgrimages in the DPRK.

As the first comparative study of invented traditions in North and South Korea, the book takes the reader on a journey through Korea’s epic twentieth century, examining the revival of culture in the context of colonialism, decolonization, national division, dictatorship, and modernization. The book investigates what it describes as “monumental” invented traditions formulated to maintain order, loyalty, and national identity during periods of political upheaval as well as cultural revivals less explicitly connected to political power. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea demonstrates that invented traditions can teach us a great deal about the twentieth-century political and cultural trajectories of the two Koreas. With contributions from historians, sociologists, folklorists, scholars of performance, and anthropologists, this volume will prove invaluable to Koreanists, as well as teachers and students of Korean and Asian studies undergraduate courses.

Author / Editor information

Jackson Andrew David :

Andrew David Jackson is associate professor of Korean studies at Monash University, Melbourne, where he has worked since 2017. Previously, he taught Korean studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Sîntionean Codruța :

Codruţa Sîntionean is assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Breuker Remco E. :

Remco E. Breuker is professor of Korean studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Saeji CedarBough :

CedarBough Saeji is assistant professor in Korean and East Asian Studies at Pusan National University.Baker Don :

Don Baker is professor of Korean civilization in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.Breuker Remco E. :

Remco E. Breuker is professor of Korean studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Jackson Andrew David :

Andrew David Jackson is associate professor of Korean studies at Monash University, Melbourne, where he has worked since 2017. Previously, he taught Korean studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Kendall Laurel :

Laurel Kendall is Curator in Charge of Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and also teaches at Columbia University.Saeji CedarBough :

CedarBough Saeji is assistant professor in Korean and East Asian Studies at Pusan National University.Sîntionean Codruța :

Codruţa Sîntionean is assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Andrew David Jackson (Editor)
Andrew David Jackson is associate professor of Korean studies at Monash University, Melbourne, where he has worked since 2017. Previously, he taught Korean studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Codruța Sîntionean (Editor)
Codruţa Sîntionean is assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Remco Breuker (Editor)
Remco E. Breuker is professor of Korean studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

CedarBough Saeji (Editor)
CedarBough Saeji is assistant professor in Korean and East Asian Studies at Pusan National University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chronology Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Invented Traditions in Korea—Contention and Internationalization Andrew David Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I REIMAGINING TRADITION: HISTORY AND RELIGION
Introduction Remco Breuker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 1 Authenticating the Past: Filling in Gaps with the Tan’gi kosa Remco Breuker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 2 Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory Andrew Logie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 3 Imagining Ancient Korean Religion: Sŏndo, Tan’gun, and the Earth Goddess Don Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Part II Rewriting tradition: language
Introduction Andrew David Jackson and Remco Breuker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 4 The Language of the “Nation of Propriety in the East” (東方禮儀之國)? The Ideological History of the Korean Culture of Politeness Eunseon Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 5 Re-invented in Translation? Korean Literature in Literary Chinese as One Epitome of Endangered Cultural Heritage Andreas Schirmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Part III Consuming and Performing tradition: music, food, and Crafts
Introduction CedarBough Saeji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 6 Split-Bamboo Comb: Heritage, Memory, and the Space In-between Laurel Kendall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 7 Tradition as Construction: Embedding Form in Two Korean Music Genres Keith Howard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Chapter 8 Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P’ansori as an Invented Tradition Jan Creutzenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Chapter 9 The State Leader as Inventor of Food Traditions in the DPRK Maria Osetrova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Part IV embodying tradition: spaces
Introduction Codruța Sîntionean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Chapter 10 Spatializing Tradition: The Remaking of Historic Sites under Park Chung Hee Codruța Sîntionean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Chapter 11 Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions Robert Winstanley-Chesters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 426
Illustrations
- Other: 8 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: November 30, 2021
ISBN: 9780824890476