Kyongju Things: Assembling Place

by Robert Oppenheim

Kyongju is South Korea's preeminent "culture city," an urban site rich with archaeological wonders that residents compare to those of Nara, Xian, and Rome. By examining these ancient objects in relation to the controversies that engulfed South Korea's high-speed railway line when it was first proposed in the 1990s, Kyongju Things offers a grounded and theoretically sophisticated account of South Korean development and citizenship in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050303
• ISBN13: 9780472050307
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"