'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building by Hyun Kyung Lee

'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building by Hyun Kyung Lee

This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity. Detailing the specific case of Seoul, Hyun Kyung Lee investigates how buildings are selectively destroyed, preserved, or reconstructed in order to either establish or challenge the cultural identity of places as new political orders are developed. In addition, she illuminates the Korean traditional concept of feng shui as a core indigenous framework for understanding the relationship between space and power, as it is associated with nation-building processes and heritagization. By providing a detailed study of a case little known outside of East Asia, ‘Difficult Heritage’ in Nation Building will expand the framework of Western-centered heritage research by introducing novel Asian perspectives.

Huang and Lees well-researched and thoughtful work reminds us of the dangerous temptation to confine critique to a reviled external Other when the impulse to repression still thrives much closer to home(Edward Vickers, International Journal of Taiwan Studies, Vol. 4 (2), 2021)

Hyun Kyung Lee is a post-doctoral research fellow working on the Academy of Korean Studies-funded research project “Beyond the Cold War, towards a community of Asia” at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK and Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea. In collaboration with her Taiwanese colleague Shu-Mei Huang, she is preparing a monograph on the remembering of punishment in post-colonial Asian cities.

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ISBN 13	9783319663371
ISBN 10	3319663372
Title	'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building
Author	Hyun Kyung Lee
Series	Palgrave Studies In Cultural Heritage And Conflict
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2019-05-02
Number of pages	313
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