The Routledge handbook of Korean culture and society /

"The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society. Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity...

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Other Authors: Kim, Youna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, [2017]
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Formation of Korea
  • 1. Compressed modernity in South Korea: constitutive dimensions, manifesting units, and historical conditions
  • 2. Militarized modernity and gendered mass mobilization
  • 3. The socioeconomic foundations of South Korea's democracy movement
  • 4. The seventy-year history of North Korean cultural formation
  • 5. Religion in twenty-first century Korean lives
  • Part II: Transforming Korea
  • 6. The muddled middle class in globalized South Korea
  • 7. South Korean youth across three decades
  • 8. The Korean family in transition
  • 9. Immigrant subempire, migrant labor activism and multiculturalism in contemporary South Korea
  • 10. North Korea now: turning point for a regime of rightlessness? Part III : Digital Korea
  • 11. How to understand the emergence of digital Korea
  • 12. Modern Korean literature and cultural identity in a pre- and post-colonial digital age
  • 13. South Korean cinema story in the digital age: 21st century success on a 20th century medium?
  • 14. Digital media and democratic transition in Korea
  • 15. Digital media and the rise of connected individuals in Korea
  • Part IV: Global Korea
  • 16. Korean diaspora and diasporic nationalism
  • 17. An overview of Korean American women's writing: "skin upon skin"
  • 18. The Korean wave: Korean popular culture in a digital cosmopolitan world
  • 19. K-pop music and transnationalism
  • 20. Transnational sport and expressions of global Koreaness