Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book Prize
Honorable Mention, 2022 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Honorable Mention, 28th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (MLA)
Shortlisted for the 2021 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
How a letter-writing revolution facilitated social change in premodern KoreaThe invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within families, and written culture created room for appropriation and subversion by those who joined epistolary practices.
Focusing on the ways that written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of these changes and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered elite cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies.
The Power of the Brush is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
DOI 10.6069/9780295747828
| ISBN: | 9780295747804 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2020 |
| Author: | Hwisang Cho |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 290 pages |
| Series: | Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies |
| Genres: |
Asian history Diaries, letters and journals |
Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book Prize
Honorable Mention, 2022 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Honorable Mention, 28th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (MLA)
Shortlisted for the 2021 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
How a letter-writing revolution facilitated social change in premodern KoreaThe invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within families, and written culture created room for appropriation and subversion by those who joined epistolary practices.
Focusing on the ways that written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of these changes and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered elite cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies.
The Power of the Brush is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
DOI 10.6069/9780295747828
The Power of the Brush features in the following genres: Asian history, Diaries, letters and journals
The Power of the Brush is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Power of the Brush was written by Hwisang Cho and published by University of Washington Press
The Power of the Brush has 290 pages
Yes it is part of Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies series
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