[KS] my book announcement Heritage Management in Korea and Japan

[Hyung Pai]

Dear editors

Dear editors,
I believe this is the only English Language book on the subject for Korea and Japan. Can I ask to be posted ? 


Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity

By Hyung Il Pai (University of Washington Press, Fall Catalogue 2013)

 
Web link http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/PAIHER.html

·    SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies, Archaeology, Art History

·    BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 298 pp., 39 illus., 3 maps, notes, glossary, bibliog., index, 6 x 9 in.

·    SERIES: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

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Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservators—and millions of tourists. As iconic markers of racial and cultural identity at home and abroad, they are embraced as tangible sources of immense national pride and popular “must-see” destinations.

This book provides the first sustained account to highlight how the forces of modernity, nationalism, colonialism, and globalization have contributed to the birth of museums, field disciplines, tourist industries, and heritage management policies. Its chapters trace the history of explorations, preservations, and reconstructions of archaeological monuments from an interregional East Asian comparative perspective in the past century.

Hyung Il Pai is professor of East Asian languages and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of “Constructing Korean Origins.” ( Harvard University Asia Center, 2000).


·    Based on many years of archival research and extensive interviews with surviving witnesses, Pai develops a unique and compelling perspective, pointing out longstanding similarities between Japanese and Korean cultural relics management practices and inviting a comprehensive rethinking of established points of view. All those wishing to understand how the national past has historically been administered in Japan and Korea and how such practices have determined current approaches will find this book illuminating and useful.” –Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA.
“Any scholar interested in the politics of culture in imperial Japan or colonial Korea will want this book on his or her shelf.”—Robert Oppenheim, University of Texas at Austin.

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Table of Contents

Preface: Critical Perspectives on Archaeology, Heritage, and Tourism xv

Chapter 1 Ranking “Korean” Properties: Heritage Administration,

South Gate, and Salvaging Buried Remains 5

Chapter 2 Collecting Japan’s Curios: World Fairs, Imperial Tombs, and

Preservation Laws 34

Chapter 3 Tracing Japan’s Lineage: Art, Architecture, and Conquest

Dynasties 71

Chapter 4 Searching for the Missing Link: Prehistory, Ethnology, and

Racial Discourse 114

Chapter 5 Excavating Korea’s Past: Colonialists, Archaeologists, and

Nostalgic Ruins 134

Chapter 6 Rediscovering the Homelands: Travel Myths, Images, and

the Narrative of Return 142

Conclusion Contested Ownership: The Plunder and the Return of

Cultural Treasures 164

 

 Hyung Il Pai
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
CA 93106
Fax: 805-893-7671
Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
Dept Home-page profile: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/faculty/pai.htm

Hyung Il Pai
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
CA 93106
Fax: 805-893-7671
Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
Dept Home-page profile: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/faculty/pai.htm

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