Gi-Wook Shin 
Ethnic Nationalism in Korea [EPUB ebook] 
Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy

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This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Belief in a racially distinct and ethnically homogeneous nation is widely shared on both sides of the Korean peninsula, although some scholars believe it is a myth with little historical basis. Finding both positions problematic and treating identity formation as a social and historical construct that has crucial behavioral consequences, this book examines how such a blood-based notion has become a dominant source of Korean identity, overriding other forms of identity in the modern era. It also looks at how the politics of national identity have played out in various contexts in Korea: semicolonialism, civil war, authoritarian politics, democratization, territorial division, and globalization.

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About the author

Gi-Wook Shin is Director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author/editor of numerous books and articles including
Contentious Kwangju (2004),
Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999), and
Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996).

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 328 ● ISBN 9780804768016 ● File size 10.4 MB ● Publisher Stanford University Press ● Published 2006 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9956068 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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