![]() | The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture Subjects: Hwanghae-bukto (Korea) -- History; Hamgyong-bukto (Korea) -- History; P’yongan bukto (Korea) -- History; Regionalism -- Korea (North) -- Hwanghae-bukto; Regionalism -- Korea (North) -- Hamgyong-bukto; Regionalism -- Korea (North) -- P’yongan-bukto; Ethnic; The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. The making and legitimating of centralized Korean nation-states over the centuries, however, have marginalized the northern region and its distinct subjectivities. Sun Joo Kim is a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of Marginality and Subversion in Korea. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson. |
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