The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, & Culture

by Sun Joo Kim

Book Overview

The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. The making and legitimating of centralized Korean nation-states over the centuries, however, have marginalized the northern region and its distinct subjectivities.

Contributors to this book address the problem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990414
• ISBN13: 9780295990415
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher