Chapter 2 Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. Chronology xiii
5. Invented Traditions in Korea—Contention and Internationalization 1
6. PART I REIMAGINING TRADITION: HISTORY AND RELIGION
7. Introduction 43
8. Chapter 1 Authenticating the Past: Filling in Gaps with the Tan’gi kosa 52
9. Chapter 2 Enticement of Ancient Empire: Historicized Mythology and (Post)colonial Conspiracies in the Construction of Korean Pseudohistory 76
10. Chapter 3 Imagining Ancient Korean Religion: Sŏndo, Tan’gun, and the Earth Goddess 114
11. Part II Rewriting tradition: language
12. Introduction 141
13. Chapter 4 The Language of the “Nation of Propriety in the East” (東方禮儀之國)? The Ideological History of the Korean Culture of Politeness 149
14. Chapter 5 Re-invented in Translation? Korean Literature in Literary Chinese as One Epitome of Endangered Cultural Heritage 176
15. Part III Consuming and Performing tradition: music, food, and Crafts
16. Introduction 221
17. Chapter 6 Split-Bamboo Comb: Heritage, Memory, and the Space In-between 229
18. Chapter 7 Tradition as Construction: Embedding Form in Two Korean Music Genres 254
19. Chapter 8 Making Masters, Staging Genealogy: Full-Length P’ansori as an Invented Tradition 279
20. Chapter 9 The State Leader as Inventor of Food Traditions in the DPRK 304
21. Part IV embodying tradition: spaces
22. Introduction 335
23. Chapter 10 Spatializing Tradition: The Remaking of Historic Sites under Park Chung Hee 339
24. Chapter 11 Rematerializing the Political Past: The Annual Schoolchildren’s March and North Korean Invented Traditions 368
25. Contributors 399
26. Index 403