Soju
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Soju

A Global History

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eBook - PDF

Soju

A Global History

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Maps
  9. List of Illustrations
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Note on Transliteration and Other Conventions
  12. Introduction
  13. 1 Soju and Arak: The Eurasian Roots of Distilled Liquors
  14. 2 The Mongols and the Rise of Soju in Koryŏ Korea
  15. 3 Contextualizing Soju: Political Relations and Cultural Transfers between the Mongol Empire and Koryŏ Korea
  16. 4 Distilling Soju at Court and Home in Chosŏn Korea
  17. 5 Challenges of Modernity: The Rise of Modern Industrial Soju and the Revival of Traditional Soju
  18. 6 Alcohol Globalism: Distillation Technology in Afro„-Eurasia„ and Other Areas of the World: The Cases of Japan and Mexico
  19. Conclusion: Soju in Global Cross-cultural Exchanges
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index