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A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, including recent political upheavals, soc……続きを見る

A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, including recent political upheavals, soc……続きを見る

Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rig……続きを見る

North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Intern……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In the 1960s, North Korea’s disaster was not yet on the horizon. In economic terms, the country was neck an……続きを見る

Bringing a fresh perspective to an understudied area, this book offers a critical, source-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) a……続きを見る

For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wényán 文言) could communicate in writing inter……続きを見る

Prenez une carte de l’Asie : la Corée du Sud est une blessure. Un pays divisé par la guerre et contraint de vivre, au quotidien, sous la menace de son frère ennemi du Nord. Et pourtant ! La pandémie……続きを見る

Myths, legends, and folklore are more than incredible and magical stories and tales. They have a profound purpose in the human world. They explain how human beings perceived and tried to understand ……続きを見る

Adéntrese en la apasionante cultura de la península de Corea: señores feudales, hambrunas, guerras, los intentos de independencia y continuos ataques extranjeros. Un devenir histórico que ha formado……続きを見る

This book contends that the long history of America’s interaction with Korea started with the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation in 1882, and with the establishment of t……続きを見る

Nuclear Showdown published by Asia expert, Gordon Chang, was of the first books to exploire the full extent of the North Korean nuclear threat, its origins, international implications, and solutions……続きを見る

On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'�tat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with un……続きを見る

A Presbyterian missionary gives a rare eye-witness account of 19th century Korea This eBook edition of Korean Sketches by James Scarth Gale, originally published in 1898, is annotated with historica……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Wonsan is a paradise in North Korea. It is where the country’s elite spend their summers. It is also where ……続きを見る

Sul’s history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West. Ginseng ……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The musok, or Korean shaman, is a tradition that has been practiced for more than forty thousand years. It ……続きを見る

South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state……続きを見る

El libro 'Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza' de Francisco Delicado es una obra maestra de la literatura del siglo XVI que se centra en la vida de una joven prostituta en la Andalucía del Renacimiento. E……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The North Korea of Kim Jong Il’s era was very different from the North Korea of the 1953–1994 period. It wa……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first people to live in Korea lived off of salmon, elk, and hake, as well as rice and wheat raised on f……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My father, who was a big man, worked at an ice plant. He was drafted into World War II but never served bec……続きを見る

In Privilege and Anxiety**, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of neoliberal globalization and demonstrates that global economic change brought more profound ……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 North Korea’s history explains how the country has been able to remain such a durable regime. #2 The Korean……続きを見る

Zulawnik focuses on the broad concept of ‘controversy’ and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia. The research methodology is exemplif……続きを見る

Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888–1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into……続きを見る

**'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is……続きを見る

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The K……続きを見る

How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student marketsーand how university financials shape students’ lives. The popular image of the international student in the American ima……続きを見る

Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, B……続きを見る