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Book Two Thousand Years of Korean Fashion

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Book Two thousand years of Korean fashion and culture

Download or read book Two thousand years of Korean fashion and culture written by Kungnip Minsok Pangmulgwan (Korea) and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Korean Popular Culture Reader

Download or read book The Korean Popular Culture Reader written by Kyung Hyun Kim and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for the study of "K-pop," relating the contemporary cultural landscape to its historical roots. The essays in this collection reveal the intimate connections of Korean popular culture, or hallyu, to the peninsula's colonial and postcolonial histories, to the nationalist projects of the military dictatorship, and to the neoliberalism of twenty-first-century South Korea. Combining translations of seminal essays by Korean scholars on topics ranging from sports to colonial-era serial fiction with new work by scholars based in fields including literary studies, film and media studies, ethnomusicology, and art history, this collection expertly navigates the social and political dynamics that have shaped Korean cultural production over the past century. Contributors. Jung-hwan Cheon, Michelle Cho, Youngmin Choe, Steven Chung, Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Stephen Epstein, Olga Fedorenko, Kelly Y. Jeong, Rachael Miyung Joo, Inkyu Kang, Kyu Hyun Kim, Kyung Hyun Kim, Pil Ho Kim, Boduerae Kwon, Regina Yung Lee, Sohl Lee, Jessica Likens, Roald Maliangkay, Youngju Ryu, Hyunjoon Shin, Min-Jung Son, James Turnbull, Travis Workman

Book South Korean Film

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  • Author : Hyon Joo Yoo
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2021-01-01
  • ISBN : 1501322575
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book South Korean Film written by Hyon Joo Yoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korean Film: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential three-volume reference collection representing three distinct phases in the development of South Korean national cinema, foregrounding how epochal characteristics inform the way in which the national cinema represents the penetrating thematic concern of auteur-ship, genre, spectatorship, gender, and nation, as well as the way in which these themes find expression in distinct visual styles and forms.

Book K FASHION

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  • Author : Korean Culture and Information Service South Korea
  • Publisher : 길잡이미디어
  • Release : 2012-06-23
  • ISBN : 8973755668
  • Pages : 123 pages

Download or read book K FASHION written by Korean Culture and Information Service South Korea and published by 길잡이미디어. This book was released on 2012-06-23 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of “fashion” first entered human history in the late Middle Ages. Since then, it has linked daily existence to art, production to purchase, personal predilections to collective consumption practices. Countries have used it in developing their own unique identities. This book gives an overview of Korean fashion’s evolution to date. It looks at the different faces of its globalization, and takes you inside the modern history of the field, where the groundwork was laid for Korean style to make its presence felt throughout the world. It also takes a look at the designers transforming Korean fashion today, ans offers a sketch of Seoul’s major fashion thoroughfares,. The book presents a brief but rich opportunity to witness a new fashion force that is 150 years in the making. Walking the World’s Runways A New Vision for Korean Beauty Fashion: Another Korean Wave? K-Fashion: Beyond Asia The DNA of Korean Fashion King Gojong's Silk Hat and the Gipson Girl (1894?1920) The New Woman and the Spread of Western Styles (The 1920s?1930s) Monpe and the Macao Man (The 1940s) Korea's First Fashion Show and Fashion Designers (The 1950s) Miniskirts: The Times They Are A-Changin' (The 1960s) Youth and the Sociology of Denim (The 1970s) Young Fashion and a Changing City (The 1980s) Le K-Chic (The 1990s) The Korean Wave and a New Course for Fashion (The 2000s to Today) The Stories of Ten Designers Lie Sang Bong: A New Take on Traditional Korean Beauty Lee Young Hee: Bringing the 'Clothes of the Wind' to the World Son Jung Wan: Eternal Song of Femininity Woo Youngmi: Captivating the European 'Homme' Moon Young Hee: Navigating between Two Worlds Lee Jean Youn: Traditional Tailor in a Modern Body Doo-Ri Chung: Elegance Fit for a First Lady Kim Hye-soon: A Million and One Variations on the Hanbok Lee Kyumbie: The Next Louboutin? Zo Myounghee: Looking for the 'It Bag' A Walk Down Style Street Myeong-dong: Fast Fashion Battleground Dongdaemun: Linking History and Culture Itaewon: A Toast to Cosmopolitanism Cheongdam-dong: Brand-Name Stores and Designer Boutiques Hongdae: Vive la Subculture Garosu-gil: Where to Sample the Color of Trends Buam-dong: A Ray of Handmade Sunshine

Book Hanbok

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  • Author : Samuel Songhoon Lee
  • Publisher : Seoul Selection
  • Release : 2015-12-17
  • ISBN : 1624120563
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Hanbok written by Samuel Songhoon Lee and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanbok embodies many of the social and aesthetic values of the Korean people. In accordance with the emphasis on social harmony found in Confucian philosophy, the choice of hanbok varied depending on one’s position in society. Its beautifully flowing lines and harmonious color schemes are important aesthetic values found in Korean art. Hanbok is increasingly emerging into the spotlight following the popularity of Korean television dramas, which are often set in the past, and also through efforts to promote hanbok on the global stage. Renowned fashion designers around the world have taken note of hanbok and have incorporated elements of hanbok into their own work. This book will examine the origins, history, and the unique characteristics of hanbok and its contemporary standing.

Book Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics

Download or read book Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics written by Fujio Koyama and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainly concerned with Japan and China, although some representative works from Korea, the Ryukyu Islands, Annam, and Thailand are represented. Beautifully illustrated with 54 color plates, and 119 black-and-white plates.

Book Dress History of Korea

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  • Author : Kyunghee Pyun
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-04-20
  • ISBN : 1350143383
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Dress History of Korea written by Kyunghee Pyun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation of dress and fashion of Korea. Through close analysis of visual, written, and material sources-some newly excavated or recently re-discovered in global museums-the book reveals how dress and adornment evolved from the period of state formation to the modern era. Authors with a range of academic and curatorial experience discuss the close relation of dress and adornments to the socio-political and cultural history of Korea and place the dress history of Korea within broader contexts in studies of fashion, material culture, museology, and costume design. As in other cultures, modern Korean fashion owes many of its styles to historic dress and this process of adaptation is explored within high fashion and popular culture contexts in ways that benefit historians, curators, and designers alike. With key materials newly available to global readers, Dress History of Korea is the indispensable guide to the study of Korean dress and fashion.

Book Two thousand years of traditional Korean costumes

Download or read book Two thousand years of traditional Korean costumes written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Split Screen Korea

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  • Author : Steven Chung
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2014-03-01
  • ISBN : 1452941513
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Split Screen Korea written by Steven Chung and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shin Sang-ok (1926–2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to Hollywood. Notoriously crossing over to the North in 1978, Shin made a series of popular films under Kim Jong-il before seeking asylum in 1986 and resuming his career in South Korea and Hollywood. In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illuminates the story of postwar Korean film and popular culture through the first in-depth account in English of Shin’s remarkable career. Shin’s films were shaped by national division and Cold War politics, but Split Screen Korea finds surprising aesthetic and political continuities across not only distinct phases in modern South Korean history but also between South and North Korea. These are unveiled most dramatically in analysis of the films Shin made on opposite sides of the DMZ. Chung explains how a filmmaking sensibility rooted in the South Korean market and the global style of Hollywood could have been viable in the North. Combining close readings of a broad range of films with research on the industrial and political conditions of Korean film production, Split Screen Korea shows how cinematic styles, popular culture, and intellectual discourse bridged the divisions of postwar Korea, raising new questions about the implications of political partition.

Book Korea

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  • Author : John R. Short
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-05-30
  • ISBN : 0226753646
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Korea written by John R. Short and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The globalization of space -- Separate worlds -- Early Joseon maps -- Europe looks East -- Cartographic encounters -- Joseon and its neighbors -- Cartographies of the late Joseon -- Representing Korea in the modern era -- The colonial grid -- Representing the new country -- Cartroversies -- Guide to further reading

Book Gold Warriors

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  • Author : Sterling Seagrave
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781859845424
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Gold Warriors written by Sterling Seagrave and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers one of the biggest secrets of the twentieth century.

Book A Reader in Edo Period Travel

Download or read book A Reader in Edo Period Travel written by Herbert Plutschow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow’s Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period’s most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields – as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists , for example – but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The first traveller put in the spotlight is the celebrated intellectual and botanist Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) and the last is the explorer of Ezo (now Hokkaido) and government official Matsuura Takeshiro (1818-88). Such was the thirst for knowledge in the Edo period that some travel accounts (estimated to number over 2000) became best-sellers in their day, not least for their voyeuristic appeal, including those of Kaibara Ekiken and Tachibana Nankei, which are included in this volume. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has considerable interdisciplinary appeal. Of particular interest also is the author’s discussion on the nature of this new travel writing and the self-centred observation and ‘seeing’ that developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, he calls the ‘Japanese Enlightenment’.

Book Christianity  First 2000 Years

Download or read book Christianity First 2000 Years written by Geoffrey Edwards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Edwards provides a sensitive critique which is helpful to those with no specialist knowledge and satisfying to the theologically educated." --Church Growth Digest

Book Making Borders in Modern East Asia

Download or read book Making Borders in Modern East Asia written by Nianshen Song and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the late nineteenth century, the Chinese-Korean Tumen River border was one of the oldest, and perhaps most stable, state boundaries in the world. Spurred by severe food scarcity following a succession of natural disasters, from the 1860s, countless Korean refugees crossed the Tumen River border into Qing-China's Manchuria, triggering a decades-long territorial dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. This major new study of a multilateral and multiethnic frontier highlights the competing state- and nation-building projects in the fraught period that witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First World War. The power-plays over land and people simultaneously promoted China's frontier-building endeavours, motivated Korea's nationalist imagination, and stimulated Japan's colonialist enterprise, setting East Asia on an intricate trajectory from the late-imperial to a situation that, Song argues, we call modern.

Book North of the DMZ

Download or read book North of the DMZ written by Andrei Lankov and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but f existence and the world that the North Koreans have created for themselves in the face of oppression. Many features of this world are unique and even bizarre. But they have been created by the citizens to reflect their own ideas and values, in sharp contrast to the world forced upon them by a totalitarian system. Opening chapters introduce the political system and the extent to which it permeates citizens' daily lives, from the personal status badges they wear to the nationalized distribution of the food they eat. Chapters discussing the schools, the economic system, and family life dispel the myth of the workers' paradise that North Korea attempts to perpetuate. In these chapters the intricacies of daily life in a totalitarian dictatorship are seen through the eyes of defectors whose anecdotes constitute an important portion of the material. The closing chapter treats at length the significant changes that have taken place in North Korea over the last decade, concluding that these changes will lead to the quiet but inevitable death of North Korean Stalinism. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book Heretics and Heroes

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  • Author : Thomas Cahill
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2014-08-12
  • ISBN : 0385495587
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Heretics and Heroes written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning News This was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies—and of unprecedented courage, as thousands refused to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. In these exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated pages, Cahill illuminates, as no one else can, the great gift-givers who shaped our history—those who left us a world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful and strong than the one they had found.