From its humble straw mat origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, p'ansori has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. In this innovative work, Chan Park celebrates her subject not as a static phenomenon but a living, organic tradition adapting to an ever-shifting context. Drawing on her extensive literary and performance backgrounds, Park provides insights into the relationship between language and music, singing and speaking, and traditional and modern reception. Her performance-centered approach to p'ansori...
From its humble straw mat origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, p'ansori has survived centuries of change and remains the primary ...
The Kwangju Uprising--Korea's Tiananmen--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and shaping the nation's transition to a civil society. Nonetheless it remains a contested event, the...
The Kwangju Uprising--Korea's Tiananmen--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a pe...
The Kwangju Uprising--Korea's Tiananmen--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and shaping the nation's transition to a civil society. Nonetheless it remains a contested event, the...
The Kwangju Uprising--Korea's Tiananmen--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a pe...
