ASIEN – Nr. 154/155 Januar/April 2020 Politics of Memory in KoreaIssue Editor Hannes B. Mosler und and Carmen Brandt
Editorial Team Thilo Diefenbach, Anna Julia Fiedler, Carolin Kautz, Martin Mandl, Florian Pölking, Cornelia Reiher und and Diana Schnelle
Editorial Manager Deike Zimmann
Editorial Assistant Leo Maximilian Koenig, Miriam Meyer und and Tabea Thoele
Nr. 154/155 (2020) Editorial 5–9 {:en}Politics of Memory in KoreaMemory politics, or the politics of memory, is about “who wants whom to remember what, and why” (Confino 1997: 1393). This struggle over memory is, besides directly writing and teaching history in publications and educational institutions, fought by way of (repetitive) performative acts at the site of statues, monuments, and memorials taking the form of … von by Hannes B. Mosler- Nr. 154/155 (2020)
Artikel Article 10–24 {:en}The Meaning and Role of Sacrificial Rituals in Traditional Korean Educational InstitutionsIn Korea during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) Confucian scholars were able to construct a political and social order and culture around the symbolic space of the Confucian private academy (sŏwŏn) by relying on a tradition of iterative ritual performances. These designated each member of society with a proper social role and universal grammar. The function …von by Eun-Jeung Leeund and Soon-woo Chung
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Artikel Article 25–52 {:en}Remembrance in the Making: The King’s Father and the Construction of Collective Memories of Crown Prince Sado in Late Eighteenth-Century KoreaThe study of collective memory, cultures of memory, collective identity, and the relationship between memory, identity, and power has gained importance in recent years. In the Korean context, a growing number of studies primarily focus on issues and phenomena of the period since the end of the Second World War. However, research on premodern Korean …von by Florian Pölking
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Artikel Article 53–65 {:en}The Politics of Remembrance and the Remembrance of Politics in Yisang’s PoetryYisang (1910–1937), one of the most renowned and best-studied poets of Korea’s colonial period, is usually remembered as a bohemian, as an intoxicated master of modernist language games. But a close reading of the poetologically charged poems with which Yisang introduced himself to his audience as a Korean- language poet in July 1933 reveals that …von by Marion Eggert
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Artikel Article 66–92 {:en}Contentious Memory Politics in South Korea: The Seoul National CemeteryThis article explores the Seoul National Cemetery’s (SNC) characteristics as a memory space that is used to reproduce the official state narrative of South Korea history. A place for mainly commemorating the dead of the Korean War, the SNC would be used to promote an anticommunist Cold War frame. Hence, it has been useful for …von by Hannes B. Mosler
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Artikel Article 93–110 {:en}National Loss and the Politics of Mourning in North KoreaThe main objective of the paper is to approach the politics of mourning in North Korea following the experiencing of the loss of the country’s two leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Building on theoretical considerations regarding the concepts of “pastoral power” as well as the “theater state,” the study analyzes some of …von by Eric J. Ballbach
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Artikel Article 111–28 {:en}Doing Discourse Research in Chinese Studies: Methodological Reflections on the Basis of Studying Green Consumption and Population PolicyAs Chinese Studies and other Area Studies have become increasingly sophisticated in the methodologies they use, more in-depth discussions on researchers’ discourse- analytic practices seem desirable. This article is thus a methodological reflection, coming as part of the authors’ own ongoing research projects. It describes some of the characteristic ways in which discourse fields in …von by Björn Alpermannund and Franziska Fröhlich - Nr. 154/155 (2020)
Artikel Article 129–49 {:en}On the Institutional Quality of the Belt and Road Initiative as a Hybrid International Public GoodIn the emerging world of multipolarity, which is characterized by political and economic oligopolistic spheres of influence, the creation of international public goods (IPGs) involves different sets of hybrid regimes. The term „hybridity“ refers to the need for balanced and virtuous cross-fertilization between the newly emerging and the established systemic considerations such as openness versus …von by Ibrahim Öztürk - Nr. 154/155 (2020)
Konferenzen Conferences 150–51 {:en}Kickoff-Event of the Momoya Okura Memorial Symposium-Series: The Languages and Cultures of Asia in Inter-Cultural Dialogue/ Auftaktveranstaltung der Momoya Okura Memorial Symposien-Reihe: Sprachen und Kulturen im interkulturellen DialogMainz, August 29, 2019 The focus of the symposium-series’ opening event was on different aspects of the notion of ‘culture’, which has been under review and discussion in various fields of research in recent years. It was opened by Sonja Wengoborski with a greeting from the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Philology …von by Sonja Wengoborski - Nr. 154/155 (2020)
Konferenzen Conferences 152–53 {:en}Modernizing Rural ChinaFreiburg, September 27–29, 2019 This year’s Modernizing Rural China workshop, organized by René Trappel, Elena Meyer-Clement, and Jesper Zeuthen, took place at Studienhaus Wiesneck in the Black Forest near Freiburg. This workshop, the second event organized by the Modernizing Rural China Research Network, sought to further explore the effects of state led rural modernization in …von by Daniel R. Kroth - Nr. 154/155 (2020)
Konferenzen Conferences 154–56 {:en}Reviving the Ancient Silk Road – Concepts, Actors and PerspectivesConfucius-Institute at the Free University Berlin, June 28–29, 2019 China has its own ideas and perspectives about how the world works and how it is structured. Chinese policy tries to shape these structures and processes through the establishment of a world encompassing plan: the Silk Road Initiative. Its different dimensions were addressed at the workshop …von by Lara Hammersen, Carolin Rosenberg, Christian Schneiderund and Marie Welling - Nr. 154/155 (2020)
Konferenzen Conferences 157–60 {:en}10. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien in FreiburgPädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, 24.–25. Januar 2020 Der Arbeitskreis „Südasien“ in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie versteht sich als Forum für den Austausch von Geograph:innen, die in der Region Südasien arbeiten. Er wurde 2011 ins Leben gerufen, um über die Grenzen der geographischen Teildisziplinen hinweg einen Austausch über aktuelle gesellschaftliche und naturräumliche Prozesse und Herausforderungen zu …von by Markus Keckund and Carsten Butsch - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 161–62 {:de}Heike Berner: ISE. Erzählungen von koreanischen Deutschen der zweiten GenerationMünchen: Iudicium Verlag, 2018. 198 S., 24 EUR In „ISE. Erzählungen von koreanischen Deutschen der zweiten Generation“ bündelt Heike Berner zehn Erzählungen, die sie aus Oral-History-Interviews gewonnen hat. Da die Migrationsgeschichte von Koreanern in Deutschland immer noch ein stark vernachlässigtes Thema ist, bildet das Buch von Heike Berner einen wichtigen und wertvollen Anhaltspunkt. In den …
von by Sebastian Tobginski - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 163–64 {:en}Catherine Earl (ed.): Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, FantasiesNIAS Press, 2018. 254 pp., 65 GBP (Hardback); 22.50 GBP (Paperback) The collected volume “Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies” aims to discuss problematic axiomatic knowledge and to raise alternative possibilities in knowledge production processes and practices in Vietnam Studies through interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse approaches. The book is based on the idea of “mythbusting”, which …
von by Friederike Trotier - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 165–66 {:de}Bo Gao: China’s Economic Engagement in North KoreaSingapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 176 pp. 71,49 EUR; eBook: 54,99 EUR In der vergangenen Dekade wurden einige Studien über die Bedeutung chinesischer Akteure für Nordkoreas Außenhandel und Wirtschaftsentwicklung veröffentlicht (…). Das vorliegende Buch leistet einen weiteren, kleinen Beitrag zur wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung aus chinesischer Perspektive. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie stehen wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten unterschiedlicher chinesischer Akteure in …
von by Sabine Burghart - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 167–69 {:de}Thomas Kalinowski: Why International Cooperation is Failing. How the Clash of Capitalisms Undermines the Regulation of FinanceOxford University Press, 2019. 279 S. Sachkundige Schelme meinen, Kapitalismus ohne Krise sei wie Katholizismus ohne Sünde. Reuigen Sündern, so sie Buße tun, wird vergeben. Kapitalistische Übeltäter, so sie systemrelevant sind, brauchen nicht einmal bußfertig zu sein, sie werden gerettet, mit dem Steuergeld der Opfer. Das sind klobige Verallgemeinerungen, es bedarf der Differenzierung und die …
von by Werner Pfennig - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 170–72 {:en}Andreas Marks: Japanese Woodblock Prints (1680–1938)TASCHEN, 2019. 622 pp., 150 EUR Certainly a big splash and yes, the iconic „Great Wave (Under the Great Wave of Kanagawa / Kanagawa-oki nami-ura)“ by Hokusai (1760–1849) is also in the book (catalog number 111, pages 352–354). As a highly readable book review is already available (Laflamme 2020), I will here focus on a …
von by Uta Lauer - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 173–75 {:en}Marty Natalegawa: Does ASEAN Matter? A View from WithinISEAS Publishing, 2018. 258 pp., S$39.90 Former Indonesian Foreign Minister (2009–2014) and former Director General for ASEAN Cooperation (2002–2005) Marty Natalegawa’s book “Does ASEAN Matter?” adds to a long line of memoirs by Indonesian politicians seeking to influence public perceptions of their achievements while in office. Serving during Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second term as President, …
von by Lukas Maximilian Müller - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 176–77 {:de}Elizabeth Lominska Johnson, Graham E. Johnson: A Chinese Melting Pot – Original People and Immigrants in Hong Kong’s First “New Town”Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 218 S., 60 Abb., 70 USD Kurzzeitbesucher von Hongkong kommen höchstens auf dem Weg zwischen Flughafen und Innenstadt in Kontakt mit Tsuen Wan, einem Vorort im Nordwesten von Kowloon mit mittlerweile fast 1 Million Einwohnern. „A Chinese Melting Pot“ ist zu lesen als eine Sozialgeschichte dieses einst peripheren Teilraums der …
von by Johannes Küchler - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Rezensionen 178–80 {:en}Daniel Koss: Where the Party Rules – The Rank and File of China’s Communist StateCambridge University Press, 2018. XVI + 391p. 74.99 GBP (hardback), 26.99 GBP (paperback), 28.00 USD (ebook) With his recently published monograph, Daniel Koss offers an important contribution to the study of authoritarianism. By using China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a case study, Koss analyses “the party’s role in the information architecture of …
von by Carolin Kautz - Nr. 154/155 (2020) Neuere Literatur 181–89 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden.
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