{"product_id":"a-new-middle-kingdom","title":"A New Middle Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chosŏn dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance, in which prosperity manifested itself in new programs and styles of visual art. \u003ci\u003eA New Middle Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e questions this belief, claiming instead that true-view landscape and genre paintings were likely adopted to propagandize social harmony under Chosŏn rule and to justify the status, wealth, and land grabs of the ruling class. This book also documents the popularity of art books from China and their misunderstanding by Koreans and, most controversially, Korean enthusiasm for artistic programs from Edo Japan, thus challenging academic stereotypes and nationalistic tendencies in the scholarship about the Chosŏn period. As the first truly interdisciplinary study of Korean art, \u003ci\u003eA New Middle Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e points to realities of late Chosŏn society that its visual art seemed to hide and deny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA William Sangki and Nanhee Min Hahn Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"J. P. Park","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615092498812,"sku":"9780295743257","price":62.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780295743257.jpg?v=1727949505","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/a-new-middle-kingdom","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}