<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Victoria Ten</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:yoneun@gmail.com">yoneun@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, May 23, 2020, 10:35<br>Subject: Chapter on Korean ki suryŏn by Victoria Ten in a book recently published by Amsterdam University Press<br>To: <<a href="mailto:koreanstudies-owner@koreanstudies.com">koreanstudies-owner@koreanstudies.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="background-color:transparent">I would like to draw attention to my book chapter <i>Transforming the Self in Contemporary Korean Ki Suryŏn (氣修練) Water, Wood, and Stone in Two GiCheon (氣天) DVDs </i>in a book<font size="2">
<i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US">Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the
West: Care of the Self</span></i>
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recently published by Amsterdam University Press<br><i></i></div><div><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent">Korean <i>ki suryŏn</i> (氣修練 cultivation of body and mind using <i>ki</i>-life energy) is becoming more popular internationally. GiCheon (氣天), a particular type of <i>ki suryŏn</i>, is portrayed here as an alchemical practice of embodied knowledge. The term ‘technologies of the self’ (from Michel Foucault) means practices of the self, but here also includes technical tools, such as videos, DVDs, fijilms, and websites. This chapter shows how the visual iconography of DVDs, advertising GiCheon, reflect the values of their creators, but also are instrumental for self-cultivation, by subtly programming our ways of living, acting, feeling, and perceiving. And when the human body is represented on screen, as it is in in <i>ki suryŏn</i> DVDs, then this programming intensifies.</div><div style="background-color:transparent"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><div><img src="cid:ii_kajfp9270" alt="image.png" width="317" height="472"><br></div></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><a href="https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462984721/contemporary-practices-of-citizenship-in-asia-and-the-west" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462984721/contemporary-practices-of-citizenship-in-asia-and-the-west</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sincerely,<div>Victoria Ten (Jeon Yeonhwa), PhD<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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