{"product_id":"beyond-death-the-politics-of-suicide-and-martyrdom-in-korea-9780295745640","title":"Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles R. Kim | Jungwon Kim | Hwasook B. Nam\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Center for Korea Studies Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Center for Korea Studies Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - Korea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the topics covered are the implications of women's chaste suicides and men's righteous killings in the evolving Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Chosŏn Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea's interlinked democracy and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il's self-immolation in 1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of 1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Center for Korea Studies Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889378705559,"sku":"9780295745640","price":4741.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780295745640.webp?v=1781176167","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/beyond-death-the-politics-of-suicide-and-martyrdom-in-korea-9780295745640","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}