Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch'onghwa ("Compendium of Records of Hearsay"). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam stories in this volume feature ghosts and magic, courtesans and sex, and court politics. They constitute both an entertaining literary collection and a rich treasure trove of information about life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Korea.
The first volume...
Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories,...
Using Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French historian Pierre Nora that because we no longer live in environments of memory we compensate by attaching ourselves to sites of memory, King explores whether Thailand offers an alternative vision, a place where modernity and heritage coexist.
Using Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French histori...
Interrogates the contested history and physical remnants of Seoul, tacking between the city's historiography and architecture, with attention to monuments, streets, and other urban spaces. The book's structuring device is the dichotomy of erasure and memory as necessary preconditions for reinvention.
Interrogates the contested history and physical remnants of Seoul, tacking between the city's historiography and architecture, with attention to monum...
