ISBN: 9780295745640 - beyond death: the politics of suicide and martyrdom in korea (center for korea studies publications) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorEdited by Charles R. Kim, Jungwon Kim, Hwasook B. Nam, and Serk-Bae SuhKlappentextrnrnCharles R. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Wisconsi.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chos¿n Dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events.Among the topics covered are the implications of women's chaste suicides and men's righteous killings in the evolving Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Chos¿n Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea's interlinked democracy and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il's self-immolation in 1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of 1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early 1990s.…