Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Material Modernity, Consumable Tradition 1
5. Part I. Modernity as Spectacle / Spectacular Korea
6. 1. Dining Out in the Land of Desire: Colonial Seoul and the Korean Culture of Consumption 19
7. 2. Shrinking Culture: Lotte World and the Logic of Miniaturization 39
8. Part II. Korea as Itinerary
9. 3. Travel Guides to the Empire. The Production of Tourist Images in Colonial Korea 65
10. 4. Guests of Lineage Houses: Tourist Commoditization of Confucian Cultural Heritage in Korea 88
11. 5. Crafting the Consumability of Place: Tapsa and Paenang Yŏhaeng as Travel Goods 105
12. Part III. Korean Things
13. 6. The Changsŭng Defanged: The Curious Recent History of a Korean Cultural Symbol 127
14. 7. The “Kimchi Wars” in Globalizing East Asia: Consuming Class, Gender, Health, and National Identity 149
15. Part IV. Korea Performed
16. 8. Blurring Tradition and Modernity: The Impact of Japanese Colonization and Ch’oe Sŭng-hŭi on Dance in South Korea Today 167
17. 9. Kugak Fusion and the Politics of Korean Musical Consumption 195
18. Bibliography 217
19. Contributors 245
20. Index 247