... within and outside of monasteries. The author looks at the growth of Buddhist leisure culture through a study of architects who helped design tourist sites, memorial gardens, monuments, museums, and even amusement parks in Nepal, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam...

... with the United States at the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921–1922; his impeachment by the Shanghai Provisional Government in March 1925; his decision to reshape the principles and direction of the Comrade Society of Great Korea to suit his needs, shifting its focus away from the importance...

... unparalleled persistence and determination. Rhee also possessed qualities lacking in his political rivals of the time. In order to provide this wider breadth of understanding with respect to Rhee’s rise to become the Republic of Korea’s first president, the remainder of the chapter presents a ten-point summary...

... 2002 World Cup soccer tournament 2002 candlelight protests U S military vehicular incident 2002 Nino Fernando SOFA Status of Forces Agreement South Korea Status of Forces Agreement SOFA U S military Walker Mark candlelight protests education high school students Roh Moo hyun social...

...This concluding chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. This book has attempted to put into perspective Korea's tumultuous nineteenth century by examining how religious practices became politicized within the context of the imperial threat. It discusses how Tonghak developed...

... effected before and after it was appointed Important Intangible Cultural Property. chapka folksong Important Intangible Cultural Properties North Korea O Pongnyŏ authenticity Ch’oe Sŏngnyong Nanbongga Sushimga Song of Sorrow Yanbian Arirang Confucianism Kim Chŏngyŏn record Yi Ch’angbae Yi...

... suffrage movement in America Todd Ellen Wiley Fort Homer Gibson Charles Dana Korea Kim Iryŏp modern Korean literature New Women Na Hyesŏk Kim Myŏngsun New Theory of Chastity Seitō Hiratsuka Raichō The launching of the women’s journal was critical for Kim Iryŏp to make herself known...

...Chapter 3 discusses the philosophical foundation of the New Women’s theory of chastity by exploring Swedish feminist Ellen Key (1849–1926). Key was one of the major sources of influence for the New Women in the United States, Japan, and Korea, during the 1880s, 1910s and 1920s. Relying on Key’s...

... with colonial rule Japanese language ch’anggŭk Tongil Ch’anggŭktan Hŭngbo Tale of Hŭngbo jŏn Kinsmen in a Decisive Battle Kyŏljŏn iljok Crown Prince Maŭi Maŭi t’aeja Non’gae nostalgia Kabuki Last Empress Myŏngsŏng hwanghu National Theater of Korea ch'angguk Korean opera Korea Japanese colonial rule...

...This chapter provides a summary of the “energy insecurity” predicament of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Lack of fuels in many sectors of the DPRK economy has caused demand for energy services to go unmet. When and if supply constraints are removed, there is likely to be a surge...

... Grandfather Sage Tosa Harabǒji Okkyǒng’s Mother Chatterbox’s apprentice Tosa Harabǒji Grandfather Sage Eckert Carter J magic Spirit Warrior IMF Crisis South Korea Gong Granny exhaustion momsal momsal exhaustion Shin Ms blocked fortune uni makta Evans Pritchard E E fortune is blocked uni makta...

...Studying the history of Japanese colonialism in Korea is a challenging exercise because it has traditionally fallen along two lines of inquiry: colonialism as a form of exploitation or modernization. As a new paradigm to study the period, colonial modernity carefully distinguishes the many layers...

... studies migrants mobility Pacific translocalism Wilson Rob Korea Orientalism Said Edward Wang Hui Asia Buddhism Confucianism Lewis Martin W Mitchell Timothy Nandy Ashis Pan Asianism Taoism transnationalism Viswanathan Gauri Wigen Kären Acharya Amitav Andaya Barbara Association...

...This chapter examines patterns found in later processes of imperial encroachment within the evolution of the Japanese consular police in preannexation Korea and their relation to developments on the home islands. It first considers the reasons for the initial establishment of consular police forces...

...This chapter focuses on Christianity in Korea. The religion entered the peninsula and gave Koreans new options for addressing old problems by supplying new answers to people's inability to overcome the presence of evil in the world. This religion also provided new ways of conceiving and interacting...

... the otherwise exotically bedraggled “Hermit Kingdom.” exoticism Japan manners and customs photography tourism transportation world’s fairs colonial period 1910–1945 Fukuzawa Yukichi railways Russo Japanese War South Manchurian Railway SMR spectacles Colonial Government General of Korea Office CGK...

...This chapter focuses on kimchi consumption in modern South Korea, suggesting that a deep sense of national anxiety about globalization undergirds kimchi's prominence as a national symbol in a country traumatized by colonization, war, division, and rapid industrialization and urbanization...

... ” Chuch’e juch’e Kim Ch’ang ho poems North Korean literature Soviet Koreans Cho Ki-ch'ŏn North Korea propaganda literary politics Paektusan socialist realism Korean War The Soviet Influence upon North Korea’s literature, as on other spheres of life in the DPRK, was conducted through...

... Ethnocentrism Ch’ŏllima Flying horse movement Nodong sinmun Workers’ Newspaper Stalin Josef Chŏn Kŭm ok Writers Union WU novels Yi Ki-yŏng North Korea Korean Proletarian Art Federation proletarian literature socialist realism Korean literature agrarian nationalism In North Korean literature...