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Carving Status at Kumgangsan - Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea (Hardcover)
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Carving Status at Kumgangsan - Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea (Hardcover)
Series: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
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North Korea's Kumgangsan is one of Asia's most celebrated sacred
mountain ranges, comparable in fame to Mount Tai in China and Mount
Fuji in Japan. Carving Status at Kumgangsan marks a paradigm shift
in the research about East Asian mountains by introducing an
entirely new field: autographic rock graffiti. The book details how
late Choson (ca. 1600-1900 CE) Korean elite travelers used
Kumgangsan to demonstrate their high social status by carving
inscriptions, naming sites, and joining the literary pedigree of
visitors to renowned locales. Such travel practices show how social
competition emerged in the spatial context of a landscape. Hence,
Carving Status at Kumgangsan argues for an expansion of accepted
historical narratives on travel and mountain space in premodern
East Asia. Rather than interpreting pilgrimage routes as
exclusively religious or tourist, in Kumgangsan's case they were
also an important site of collective memory. A journey to
Kumgangsan to view and contribute to its sites of memory was an
endeavor that late Choson Koreans hoped to achieve in their lives.
Based on multidisciplinary research drawing on literary writings,
court records, gazetteers, maps, songs, calligraphy, and paintings,
Carving Status at Kumgangsan is the first historical study of this
practice. It will appeal to scholars in fields ranging from East
Asian history, literature, and geography, to pilgrimage studies and
art history. *Winner of the 2022 Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize for a
distinguished book on the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese
Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, prior to 1800,
sponsored by the American Historical Association
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