Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance 9780824860813

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Material Modernity, Consumable Tradition
Part I. Modernity as Spectacle / Spectacular Korea
1. Dining Out in the Land of Desire: Colonial Seoul and the Korean Culture of Consumption
2. Shrinking Culture: Lotte World and the Logic of Miniaturization
Part II. Korea as Itinerary
3. Travel Guides to the Empire. The Production of Tourist Images in Colonial Korea
4. Guests of Lineage Houses: Tourist Commoditization of Confucian Cultural Heritage in Korea
5. Crafting the Consumability of Place: Tapsa and Paenang Yŏhaeng as Travel Goods
Part III. Korean Things
6. The Changsŭng Defanged: The Curious Recent History of a Korean Cultural Symbol
7. The “Kimchi Wars” in Globalizing East Asia: Consuming Class, Gender, Health, and National Identity
Part IV. Korea Performed
8. Blurring Tradition and Modernity: The Impact of Japanese Colonization and Ch’oe Sŭng-hŭi on Dance in South Korea Today
9. Kugak Fusion and the Politics of Korean Musical Consumption
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance
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