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Suffering and Smiling: Daily Life in North Korea, is a field report of North Korean culture based on two decades of the author’s personal observation and contact with people. The dichotomy of suffer……続きを見る

In this second edition of North Korea’s New Diplomacy, author Virginie Grzelczyk shows how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the……続きを見る

A rare glimpse into Korean hanok, Inside the Korean House takes readers on an unprecedented tour through the modern interiors of twelve magnificent tradional homes. Amidst the glass-and-steel skyscr……続きを見る

North Korea: Unmasking Three Generations of Mad Men explores the mysterious legacy of the Kim family. From the annexation of Korea by Japan to the painful separation of North and South Korea followi……続きを見る

Lee provides a comprehensive insight into important topics within modern Korean theatre and conducts an in-depth evaluation of the major discourses that shaped Korean theatre during the 20th century……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Korea’s nuclear strategies and of the decisions which explain its strategic motivations. The existence of two separate Koreas is an accepted outc……続きを見る

While working as an English teacher and freelance journalist in South Korea for twelve years, James Card explored remote mountain valleys with a fly rod. In one of the most densely populated countri……続きを見る

Cornerstone of the Nation is the first historical account of the complex alliance of military and civilian forces that catapulted South Korea’s conjoined militarization and industrialization under P……続きを見る

An in-depth portrait of the history, culture, and economies of North and South Korea. "This is a thoughtful, passionate, and enlightening look at the world's eleventh largest economy and one of its ……続きを見る

Mythologie Coréenne est une invitation à plonger dans le monde fascinant et richement détaillé de la mythologie coréenne. Laissez-vous transporter à travers les âges, des origines cosmologiques du m……続きを見る

When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth century, he had a very personal mission in mind. He……続きを見る

Scholar and senior journalist Kim Hakjoon provides a timely analysis of the rise of the Kim Il Sung family dynasty and the politics of leadership succession in Pyongyang, including Kim Jong Il's dea……続きを見る

Volume 4 "THE ECONOMY’ of the American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States d……続きを見る

P'ansori, the traditional oral narrative of Korea, is sung by a highly trained soloist to the accompaniment of complex drumming. The singer both narrates the story and dramatizes all the characters,……続きを見る

السودان من التاريخ القديم إلى رحلة البعثة المصرية، الجزء الثاني: يقدم عبد الله حسين دراسة شاملة ومتعمقة لتاريخ السودان من العصور القديمة حتى بداية القرن العشرين. يبدأ الكتاب برحلة تاريخية عبر العصور……続きを見る

السودان من التاريخ القديم إلى رحلة البعثة المصرية، الجزء الثالث: يقدم عبد الله حسين دراسة شاملة ومتعمقة لتاريخ السودان من العصور القديمة حتى بداية القرن العشرين. يبدأ الكتاب برحلة تاريخية عبر العصور……続きを見る

السودان من التاريخ القديم إلى رحلة البعثة المصرية، الجزء الأول: يقدم عبد الله حسين دراسة شاملة ومتعمقة لتاريخ السودان من العصور القديمة حتى بداية القرن العشرين. يبدأ الكتاب برحلة تاريخية عبر العصور ……続きを見る

Durante a ocupación xaponesa de Corea, un dos episodios máis escuros da historia do país, a moza Okseon viuse convertida, como moitas outras mulleres coreanas, en “muller de conforto”. Esta novela g……続きを見る

Cornerstone of the Nation is the first historical account of the complex alliance of military and civilian forces that catapulted South Korea’s conjoined militarization and industrialization under P……続きを見る

?Stephen Turnbull, a renowned expert on the history of Japan, examines the samurai invasion of Korea, the first step in an ambitious Japanese plan to conquer China. Examining the various stages of t……続きを見る

Coverage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) all too often focuses solely on nuclear proliferation, military parades, and the personality cult around its leaders. As the British amba……続きを見る

Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in South Korea (1961–1988). Drawing upon primary docum……続きを見る

Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea (‘South Korea’) became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known about the general public. First published in 1988, K……続きを見る

本書稿分為上下兩卷，上卷分析何謂燕行，另以洪大容為研究個案，探討一位朝鮮士大夫的心路歷程，以之觀看其學術背景、前往北京的燕行活動如何刺激到他的西洋認識，從而進行深度反思，通過與西洋傳教士及北京士人的……続きを見る

Scholars have long debated the relationship between Buddhist monks and Confucian literati during the late Chosŏn (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries), when the Korean state adopted anti-Buddhist po……続きを見る

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It was from these interactions that the current appellation of “Korea” was derived ……続きを見る

When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, ……続きを見る

Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P’ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; “remarks on poetry”) and one of the ……続きを見る

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It was from these interactions that the current appellation of “Korea” was derived ……続きを見る

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epi……続きを見る