Soju : a global history

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	Soju: a global history / Hyunhee Park, City University of New York.
개인저자	Park, Hyunhee, 1972- author.
발행사항	Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
형태사항	xiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
총서사항	Asian connections
ISBN	9781108842013 (hardback) : 9781108895774 (ebook)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Soju and Arak: The Eurasian Roots of Distilled Liquors -- The Mongols and the Rise of Soju in Koryŏ Korea -- Contextualizing Soju: Political Relations and Cultural Transfers between the Mongol Empire and Koryŏ Korea -- Distilling Soju at Court and Home in Chosŏn Korea -- Challenges of Modernity: The Rise of Industrial Soju and Revival of Traditional Soju -- Alcohol Globalism: Distillation Technology in Afro-Eurasia and Other Areas of the World: The Cases of Japan and Mexico -- Conclusion: Soju in Global Cross-cultural Exchanges.
요약	"Soju, the "national"1 distilled alcoholic drink of Korea, has now become one of the world's most popular drinks, most recently thanks to the recent pop-cultural phenomenon of Korean Wave (Hallyu), represented by the growing popularity of K-Pop, Korean dramas, and Korean foods in today's globalizing world.2 Clear and colorless with a taste similar to vodka, soju is a kind of spirit, or distilled liquor, which obtains a high percentage of alcohol content by means of a distillation technology that separates alcohol from the water and other compounds of fermented material"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Soju.
분류기호(DDC)	663.5
언어	영어