Hyunhee Park

Soju (eBook, ePUB)

A Global History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hyunhee Park offers the first global historical study of soju, the distinctive distilled drink of Korea. Searching for soju's origins, Park leads us into the vast, complex world of premodern Eurasia. She demonstrates how the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wove together hemispheric flows of trade, empire, scientific and technological transfer and created the conditions for the development of a singularly Korean drink. Soju's rise in Korea marked the evolution of a new material culture through ongoing interactions between the global and local and between tradition and innovation in the adaptation and localization of new technologies. Park's vivid new history shows how these cross-cultural encounters laid the foundations for the creation of a globally connected world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108901574
• Artikelnr.: 62747141

Autorenporträt

Hyunhee Park is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Soju and Arak: The Eurasian Roots of Distilled Liquors; 2. The Mongols and the Rise of Soju in Kory
Korea; 3. Contextualizing Soju: Political Relations and Cultural Transfers between the Mongol Empire and Kory
Korea; 4. Distilling Soju at Court and Home in Chos
n Korea; 5. Challenges of Modernity: The Rise of Modern Industrial Soju and Revival of Traditional Soju; 6. Alcohol Globalism: Distillation Technology in Afro-Eurasia and other areas of the World - The Cases of Japan and Mexico; Conclusion: Soju in Global Cross-Cultural Exchanges.