Korea:The Past and the Present

Contents

Preface

List of contributors

PART 1

The Transition into the Modern Period:Analysing and Interpreting History

Tonghak in the aftermath of theTonghak rebellion, 1895–1901

Fascinating and dangerous: Japan inKorea’s Enlightenment thought in the1900s

Pro-Japanese economic alliancetheories during the period of theTaehan empire

Narrative politics, nationalism andKorean history

Socio-cultural implications of the recentinvention of tradition in Korea: anoverview

Yanagi So#etsu and Korean crafts withinthe Mingei movement

PART 2

The Korean Peninsula Since 1945

Division and its consequences

Leadership transition in Korea and itssignificance for the region

Where is the king buried? Legitimacystruggles on the Korean peninsula

Divisions and abductions: the humancost in inter-Korean and DPRK-Japaneserelations

Music of the Fatherland: the NorthKorean soundscape in the constructionof Chongryun Identity in Japan*

How different is Pyongyang speechfrom Seoul speech?

Politics and society in and beyond the ROK

The Ilhae Foundation: beyond ascandal

Ko(njo(n kayo: South Korea’s propagandapop

South Korean television policy andprogrammes: a question of localism

‘Protecting the nation’: KoreanBuddhism under the rule of Park ChungHee, 1961–79

Minjung theology and culture

Protestant Christianity and the state:religious organizations as an example ofcivil society in South Korea

Korea and the Gulf crisis

Politics and society in the DPRK

The juche doctrine and Kim Il Sung’ssuccess

The place of religion in North Koreanideology

PART 3

Economy, Industry and Development

Explaining Korean development: someissues of ideology and method

The quality puzzle: how has Koreanindustry mastered technology so fast?

The recent development of labourrelations in Korea and their implicationsfor international investors

The globalization of South Koreanautomobile firms and the Koreangovernment in the 1990s

The political economy of theKorean–Japanese trade imbalance

KOREA: THE PAST AND THE PRESENT VOLUME 2

PART 4

The Cultural Tradition

Religion

Reverse syncretism and the sacred areaof Muak-tong: the accommodation ofKorean folk religion to the religiousforms of Buddhism

Why should Korean shamans bewomen?

Eschatology and folk religions in Koreansociety

Archaeology and early art

Mumunt’ogi and megalithicmonuments: a reconsideration of thedating

Social structure in a megalithic tombsociety in Korea

Crowning glory: headdresses of theThree Kingdoms period

Ancient glass trade in Korea

Technological parallels between ChineseYue wares and Korean celadons

PART 5

Literature and the Performing Arts

The tradition of Korean poetry

Thomas Hardy in Korea

Fire and ice: the search for values inYi Munyo(l’s novella Ku( hae kyo(ul(The Winter of that Year)

The improper desire for knowledge:de-gendering curiosity in contemporaryKorean women’s literature

Reappraisal of the origins of p’ansori

PART 6

Traditional and Modern Society

Traditional society

Change and continuity in Cho(sonmilitary techniques during the laterCho(son period

The rise of chungin and theircharacteristics

Korea: the land of the kye

Modern society, new forms and technology

Korea as the wave of a future: theemerging Dream Society of icons andaesthetic experience

In the eye of the hurricane of change:Korean contemporary art of the newmillennium

Domesticating communicationtechnologies in Korean families

State intervention in housing provisionand high-rise housing development inthe Seoul metropolitan area

High tech made by North Korea:communication technology in theDemocratic People’s Republic of Koreaand its impact on society

PART 7

History: The Western Presence in Korea

Robert Hart and Chinese domination ofKorea: a study of misguided imperialism

John McLeavy Brown in Korea

The British community in Korea: thecolonial period 1910–42

Consolidated Bibliography

Index