Sun Joo Kim
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804783811
- eISBN:
- 9780804786652
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783811.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book intends to resurrect the forgotten historical memory of people, family, lineage, and region, while at the same time enriching the social history of late Chosŏn Korea, by examining the life ...
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This book intends to resurrect the forgotten historical memory of people, family, lineage, and region, while at the same time enriching the social history of late Chosŏn Korea, by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in the northwestern region, but an advocate of the history and culture of the region he came from and a literatus whose literary talent was recognized by his contemporaries. In the late Chosŏn period, people from northern provinces were the target of political and social discrimination by the central elite. Although they were allowed to take civil service examinations—the main avenue to obtaining central bureaucratic posts—their bureaucratic advancement to ministerial positions was effectively blocked by a multi-level screening system that was monopolized by the central aristocrats. The province's reputed lack of yangban aristocracy, respect for martial arts, low level of Confucian scholarship, and resultant cultural inferiority were routinely cited as bases for this regional discrimination. This monograph examines these particular historical experiences of the northern region, and northerners' continuous efforts to challenge popular bias and political discrimination through the frames of microhistory and historical memory. It criticizes the historiographical problem of “otherizing” the northern region and aim to fill a gap in Korean historiography—namely, the lack of historical study of the northern region, P'yŏngan Province in particular, from a regional perspective.Less
This book intends to resurrect the forgotten historical memory of people, family, lineage, and region, while at the same time enriching the social history of late Chosŏn Korea, by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in the northwestern region, but an advocate of the history and culture of the region he came from and a literatus whose literary talent was recognized by his contemporaries. In the late Chosŏn period, people from northern provinces were the target of political and social discrimination by the central elite. Although they were allowed to take civil service examinations—the main avenue to obtaining central bureaucratic posts—their bureaucratic advancement to ministerial positions was effectively blocked by a multi-level screening system that was monopolized by the central aristocrats. The province's reputed lack of yangban aristocracy, respect for martial arts, low level of Confucian scholarship, and resultant cultural inferiority were routinely cited as bases for this regional discrimination. This monograph examines these particular historical experiences of the northern region, and northerners' continuous efforts to challenge popular bias and political discrimination through the frames of microhistory and historical memory. It criticizes the historiographical problem of “otherizing” the northern region and aim to fill a gap in Korean historiography—namely, the lack of historical study of the northern region, P'yŏngan Province in particular, from a regional perspective.
Eva-Maria Hardtmann
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199466276
- eISBN:
- 9780199087518
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466276.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter 7 serves as a commentary to the ethnography and as a summary. It considers how neoliberal values have influenced parts of the GJM at the same time that activists have been radicalized, and it ...
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Chapter 7 serves as a commentary to the ethnography and as a summary. It considers how neoliberal values have influenced parts of the GJM at the same time that activists have been radicalized, and it reflects on how these incongruences are dealt with practically among activists and NGO workers on a local level. This chapter deepens the understanding of processes in South Asia and Japan when many transnational activists have been professionalized during the 2000s, interacting locally with activists and (I)NGO workers, who are temporarily employed and in a constant flux between projects. The chapter is also a comment on how the regional forms of discrimination in South Asia and Japan historically gave rise to unique traditions of protest, but still activists entered into transnational collaborations, in tune with activists in other parts of the world, to form what is known as the Global Justice Movement.Less
Chapter 7 serves as a commentary to the ethnography and as a summary. It considers how neoliberal values have influenced parts of the GJM at the same time that activists have been radicalized, and it reflects on how these incongruences are dealt with practically among activists and NGO workers on a local level. This chapter deepens the understanding of processes in South Asia and Japan when many transnational activists have been professionalized during the 2000s, interacting locally with activists and (I)NGO workers, who are temporarily employed and in a constant flux between projects. The chapter is also a comment on how the regional forms of discrimination in South Asia and Japan historically gave rise to unique traditions of protest, but still activists entered into transnational collaborations, in tune with activists in other parts of the world, to form what is known as the Global Justice Movement.
