{"product_id":"the-northern-region-of-korea-history-identity-culture-9780295990415","title":"The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, \u0026 Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. The making and legitimating of centralized Korean nation-states over the centuries, however, have marginalized the northern region and its distinct subjectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors to this book address the problem of amnesia regarding this distinct subjectivity of the northern region of Korea in contemporary, historical, and cultural discourses, which have largely been dominated by grand paradigms, such as modernization theory, the positivist perspective, and Marxism. Through the use of storytelling, linguistic analysis, and journal entries from turn-of-the-century missionaries and traveling Russians in addition to many varieties of unconventional primary sources, the authors creatively explore unfamiliar terrain while examining the culture, identity, and regional distinctiveness of the northern region and its people. They investigate how the northern part of the Korean peninsula developed and changed historically from the early Choson to the colonial period and come to a consensus regarding the importance of regionalism as a vital factor in historical transformation, especially in regard to Korea's tumultuous modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sun Joo Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Center for Korea Studies Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295990415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSun Joo Kim \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMarginality and Subversion in Korea. \u003c\/i\u003eThe other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Center for Korea Studies Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40617588916339,"sku":"9.7803E+12","price":80.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2ec96cb3-7145-4272-a3ab-6fd42c2b1f6c.jpg?v=1670335920","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-northern-region-of-korea-history-identity-culture-9780295990415","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}