Soju (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108842013)

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.

Author: Hyunhee Park
ISBN-10: 1108842011
ISBN-13: 9781108842013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2021
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2022