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An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies.

Explores how successful Korean neutralization could have radically transformed the balance of power equation in East Asia. The book offers a groundbreaking view of Korean diplomatic history from a more regional geography paradigm.

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 history, religions, language, music, food, crafts, and space.

It may sound logical that individualistic attitudes boost divorce. This book argues otherwise. Conservative norms of specialized gender roles serve as the root cause of marital dissolution. Those expectations that prescribe what men should do and what women should do help break down marital relationships.

Places women and gender at the centre of modern medical transformations in Korea. This book outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women's experiences as health practitioners and patients.

Includes a complete translation of an anti-Catholic essay and an annotated translation of the Silk letter of Hwang Sayong.

Collects ten short stories by modern Korean women that touch in one way or another on issues related to gender and kinship politics. This title features an introduction that presents a historical overview of traditions of modern Korean women's fiction, situating the selected writers and their stories in the larger context of Korean literature.

As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this work on commemoration politics, social representation and memory, she draws on her writings from the 1980s and ethnographic work she conducted in the 1990s.

Takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organised around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife.

A social history of the experience of Korean immigrants, the ""ilse"", in Hawaii from 1903 to 1973, mainly as seen through their own eyes. It makes use of primary source material from Korea, Japan, the continental USA and Hawaii.

This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. It explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped many aspects of South Korean society.

From its humble ""straw mat"" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, ""p'ansori"" has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. Chan Park celebrates ""p'ansori"" as a living tradition, adapting to an ever-shifting context.

Includes essays that engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. This volume focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910-1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. It concentrates on places that exist at the margins of Korean society.

The closing years of the Choson dynasty have received considerable attention from historians of Korea. This biography of Min Yong-hwan aims to provide a new perspective on this period in Korean history which still casts its shadow over the region today.

Tonghak, or Eastern Learning, was the first major new religion in modern Korean history. Founded in 1860, it combined aspects from a variety of Korean religious traditions, and it was seen as an ideological threat by the Korean government in the last half of the nineteenth century. The new teaching appealed to the poor and also to marginalized educated people and became best known for its prominent role in the largest peasant rebellion in Korean history in 1894, which set the ground for a wider regional conflict in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Although the rebellion failed, it caused immense changes in Korean society and Japans victory in the war inaugurated its rise as an imperial power.