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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Dr. Pai:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It seems to me that it is wrong that the
Chinese appropriate Koguryo history and culture as Chinese. For
example, Tibetan art and history before China took over Tibet is not
Chinese history or art. Indian art and history before the
establishment of Pakistan is not Pakistanis art and history. In
addition, Korea exists now as a country unlike Tibet so that it is more
unfair. Koguryo history, culture and art are Korean, not
Chinese.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Junghee Lee</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Associate Professor</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Department of Art</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Portland State University</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu
href="mailto:hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu">Hyung Pai</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
href="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Korean Studies Discussion List</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:10
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [KS] northeast asia
project-UNESCO heritage sites</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Dear Mr. Lee and members,<BR>I also want to emphasize the
importance of taking into account the impact of cultural tourism and the PRC's
economic motivation for pushing the registration of these Koguryo tombs on the
prestigious list of World Heritage Sites. In the last report (2001) that I
have from the UNESCO World Heritage Organization, there are more than 500
historical sites/natural monuments worldwide and over 150 countries who are
members. S. Korea joined in 1998 and now has six monuments registered
including Sokkuram, Pulguksa, Haeinsa woodblock prints, Suwon Hwasong
fortress, Chongmyo, and most recently, Hwasun dolmen sites in Cholla-do. I
have kept up with the various symposiums sponsored by bureaucrats, historians,
and archaeologists who spent many years of intense lobbying to list these
dolmen sites as a unique 'Korean" prehistoric heritage from the Bronze Age
citing the usual nationalistic propaganda about their significance as the
first remains as evidence of social stratification, state formation, and
ancestral architectural achievements.<BR>So, for your forum, I recommend that
you contact the Seoul Unesco Office and esp, the assistant director Ho-Kwon
who will be able to direct you to the kinds of publications, activities,
monitoring of sites, and administrative funding the World heritage sites
commission offers. My impression reading through the minutes of international
symposiums they hold every five years as well as talking to ICOM
(International Council on Museums) and ICOMOS (International Council on
Monuments) members in South Korea that being on the list is a highly
competitive process requiring documentation to prove historical authenticity,
that the materials/technology used at the sites are still original, the
preservation state of the monument is worthy of salvaging and most
importantly, its historical "representativity" as a national symbol. <BR>These
are the prime reasons why, the PRC is so intent in assert ing their authority
so as to claim them as 'their national sites" since they want to have a
monopoly over the tombs preservation, reconstruction (which goes on today at a
breakneck speed) and future development for tourism and commercial revenue.
Mark Byington has also pointed out to me the irony of this situation since
South Korean tourists and no doubt Japanese tourists (Who together have the
most dispensable income to throw around) will comprise the majority of
potential visitors who will spend the money and effort to go to these sites
situated outside the main tourists venues in Beijing and Shanghai. It is
unfortunate and in my opinion a glaring omission on the part of the various
organizers that most of the international symposiums and hundreds of articles
in Korean/Japanese newspapers published in the last six months demonstrate
again how the "ethno-centric" bias on the part of Korean academics have
influenced their debates over the sites "ethnic/artistic origins" rather than
the more immediate concerns over condemning the destruction of these sites in
the rushed excavations and reconstruction projects without adequate research
planning or published excavation reports. <BR>I hope in your forum being held
in Berkeley will have a more open debates on the larger global issues facing
cultural sites and monuments rather than rehashing the same nationalistic
tropes which leads nowhere since this debate first surfaced amongst N. Korean
scholars and Chinese officials decades ago. <BR><BR><BR>On Mar 31, 2004, at
9:38 PM, ken.kaliher@us.army.mil wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><?x-tad-smaller> Anthony Faiola’s thorough
January 22 report in the Washington Post ("Kicking Up the Dust of History")
suggested one possible reason for China’s Koguryo claims which seems very
far from “silly.” Faiola wrote:<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><?x-tad-smaller> “...More is at
stake than bragging rights to the extraordinary bronze and clay Buddhas and
frescoed murals of a long-dead civilization. Koguryo encompassed a
vast area from central Manchuria to south of Seoul. Korean academics
and politicians accuse China of attempting to lay claim to the kingdom out
of fear that its 870-mile-long border with North Korea will rupture with a
flood of refugees if the government in Pyongyang collapses. <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><?x-tad-smaller> “The
Chinese may be laying the groundwork to dispute the current border with
North Korea and, if they find it to be in their interest, claim more
territory, scholars say. They also argue that China is trying to head
off any attempt by pockets of Korean speakers on the Chinese side of the
border from eventually becoming part of a unified
Korea.”<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><TT><?fontfamily><?param Courier New><?x-tad-smaller> <?/x-tad-smaller><?/fontfamily></TT><BR><BR><?smaller><?x-tad-smaller>Ken
Kaliher<?/x-tad-smaller><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><B><?x-tad-smaller>From<?/x-tad-smaller></B><?x-tad-smaller>:
Jim Palais <palais@u.washington.edu><?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller><B><?x-tad-smaller>Date<?/x-tad-smaller></B><?x-tad-smaller>:
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:29 pm<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><?x-tad-smaller><?/x-tad-smaller><B><?x-tad-smaller>Subject<?/x-tad-smaller></B><?x-tad-smaller>:
Re: [KS] northeast asia project<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
Peter Lee: <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> It seems like the
Chinese government is being overly <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
nationalistic. I <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> can't think of
any other reason for making a silly claim for Chinese<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> jurisdiction of Koguryo.<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> Jim Palais <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> ----- Original Message ----- <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> From: "Sangkee Peter Lee"
<sangkee@uclink.berkeley.edu><?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
To:
<Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:43 PM
<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> Subject: [KS] northeast asia
project<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > To whom it may concern: <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > My name is Peter Lee and I'm
a 2nd year political science <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
student at UC <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> Berkeley. I'm part
of a<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > student organization
called Committee for Korea Studies. 5-6 <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> students have
<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> been meeting about <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > everyday for 2 weeks to learn
more about the Northeast Asia <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
Project- the <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> history of goguryo
and <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > the reason why Chinese
govt is pursuing this. We decided
the<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> best way to
<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > inform the students here at
Berkeley is to hold a forum where 3-4
<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> professors or experts can <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > lecture and answer questions.
Do you have any recommendations? Those
<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> living in the US will be most <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > ideal, but if they live in
Korea it will be okay also. Thank<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>>
you. I'll <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> look forward to hearing <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > from <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > you soon.
<?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > Peter <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> > <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> <?/x-tad-smaller><BR><?x-tad-smaller>> <BR><?/x-tad-smaller></BLOCKQUOTE><?smaller>Hyung Il Pai<BR>Associate
Professor<BR>East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,<BR>HSSB Building,
University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106<BR>Fax: 805) 893-3011, Phone:
805) 893-2245<BR>Email: Hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu<BR>Dept. Web-site
-http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/<?/smaller><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>