Korea 9

Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard featu……続きを見る

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the four……続きを見る

Learn about the land of kimchi – Korea! It is an Asian powerhouse that stands next to Japan in terms of technological achievements. Through this educational book, your child can go on a virtual tour……続きを見る

A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the persp……続きを見る

From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "Bae Suah offers the chance to unknowーto see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believ……続きを見る

Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and……続きを見る

Not since Ernie Pyle have the American people taken any reporter to their hearts as they have Marguerite Higginsーthe photogenic young war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. This brillia……続きを見る

In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Korean War in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Korean War. On……続きを見る

Before the Korean War, the primary mission of Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer’s Far East Air Forces was air defense of the Japanese homeland. Most of the aircraft constituting Stratemeyer’s inventory……続きを見る

L’un des intérêts de ce livre réside dans la qualité des photographies qui l’illustrent en deuxième partie et qui font voyager notre imagination vers ce pays et ces décors qui nous sont peu familier……続きを見る

Containing photographs of everyday, antique objects along with insightful commentary, Things Korean is a useful guide to traditional life in Korea. O-Young Lee, former Korean Minister of Culture giv……続きを見る

"This book is a 'must read' for policy makers as well as political scientists who need imagination, innovative ideas, and rigorous logic in resolving North Korean nuclear issues and reunifying two K……続きを見る

Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth ……続きを見る

Since 1999, South Korean films have dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent of the Korean domestic box-office, matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is this, and how did it come ……続きを見る

Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by……続きを見る

South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recent……続きを見る

This book is the record of interviews conducted on Former President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui’s subconscious [guardian spirit] in February 2014. His true thoughts, as well as the truth on modern East-A……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive examination of China–South Korea relations after their diplomatic normalization in 1992, paying close attention to the most recent controversies in the bilateral rel……続きを見る

《中國娼妓史》是研究中國娼妓問題的開山之作，至今仍有重大的學術價值。其原因在於作者吸收社會科學的新思想，將娼妓從社會史的視角加以研究。　　作者把娼妓史分為五個階段：巫娼時代（殷商）、奴隸娼妓與官娼發……続きを見る

Pat Barham sensed a huge opportunity and jumped at the chance to be assigned to become one of the first war correspondents to report on the Korean War. She knew that she would face many difficulties……続きを見る

In May 2017, the day after Moon Jae-in was elected as president of South Korea, Ryuho Okawa used his extraordinary spiritual power (similar to but surpassing Shakyamuni Buddha’s) and summoned Moon’s……続きを見る

This book examines how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War. Emerging as a state that has successfully deve……続きを見る

As a Marine combat veteran and a successful writer of fiction and non-fiction, Andrew Geer was ideally suited to tell this story of the U.S. Marines in Korea. In preparing this book, which was first……続きを見る

OPERATION KILLER: THE SAVAGE SLAUGHTER… The war in Korea was not, officially, a war, even though men died fighting it. The conditions were unlike those encountered in any other theatre of war. In th……続きを見る

**Korea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human lifeーpresented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl *Named one of ……続きを見る

First published in 1958, A Marine Division in Nightmare Alley is a brief but gripping narrative of the author’s experiences as a young U.S. Marine during the Korean conflict. Beginning with his enli……続きを見る

U.S. Major Ward M. Millar was the third and last of three Air Force pilots captured during the Korean War to make his escape from the Communists. This is his story, first published in 1955, simply t……続きを見る

Lt. Duane Thorin was a Navy helicopter pilot, who rescued many Americans before he himself was captured in 1952 and held as a prisoner of war by North Korea until his release in August, 1953. This b……続きを見る

How can two countries sharing the same second names be so different from each other? Dig a bit further into the two Korea’s history to understand why these geographic brothers are separated by diffe……続きを見る