In the valley of Chogapsan, where children once entered the world laughing, a strange mist descends from the northern cliffs. It smells of memory burned to ash. One by one, the children forget who t……続きを見る
In Korea, a mask is never just a mask. For over a thousand years, the sacred tal masks have been Korea's most dangerous truth-tellers, its most powerful healers, and its bridge between the living an……続きを見る
Seoul, 1946. Liberation has come, but the wounds remain. In the ruins of a teahouse near Jongno, a troupe of talchum performers gathers around a sacred maskーcracked during a Japanese police raid, h……続きを見る
THE MASK THAT LAUGHS AT EMPIRE Ancient Korean Wisdom for Modern Resistance When a Japanese governor demanded that even the gods bow to the Emperor, one carved wooden mask refused. In 1911 colonial K……続きを見る
Before kings built walls and called them nations, the world was held in harmony by thirteen sacred masks. Each mask contained both virtue and shadowーauthority that could bless or corrupt, compassio……続きを見る
Before there were kings and temples, there were grandmothers at the well. Before Confucian orthodoxy and Buddhist sutras, there were spirits in the doorway, whispers at the window, gods in the weapo……続きを見る
Deep in the iron-rich mountains of Korea's forgotten north, bells toll beneath the earth. Lanterns burn with darkness instead of light. And a blacksmith's hammer, struck two thousand years ago, stil……続きを見る
This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the vario……続きを見る
In "Korea's Fight for Freedom," Fred A. McKenzie provides a detailed and compelling narrative chronicling Korea's tumultuous journey toward national sovereignty during a time of imperialist aggressi……続きを見る
After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong U……続きを見る
Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10……続きを見る
This first volume in a two-part study examines the origins of South Korean authoritarianism as personified by the militant political leader.
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s ……続きを見る
An in-depth portrait of the two Koreas and their turbulent relationshipーfrom the author of Eisenhower: A 20th Century Hero in War and Peace.
After nearly 70 years of division between North and Sout……続きを見る
著者:Carter J. Eckert
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2014年03月02日
According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist ……続きを見る
Korea's Fight for Freedom Originally published in 1920, this is an exhaustive examnation of Korea's struggle for freedom from oppressive Japanese rule. 'In this book I describe the struggle of an an……続きを見る
In "Korea's Fight for Freedom," Fred A. McKenzie provides a compelling and meticulously researched account of Korea's struggle for independence during the early 20th century. Written in a journalist……続きを見る
When Vickie Spring promised her dad who had served in both WWII and the Korean War, that she would one day write his story and the others with whom he served, she never imagined the challenges that ……続きを見る
This book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations.
While government officials, inc……続きを見る
This book analyses the Korean film industry emergence and development in a global business and economic perspective. This is one of the first books to compare the film policies and industries of the……続きを見る
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations o……続きを見る
The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea provides the first comprehensive account in English of the Musin Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King Yŏngjo (1694–1776……続きを見る
著者:Young Ick Lew
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
発売日: 2019年05月01日
The only full-scale history of Syngman Rhee’s (1875–1965) early career in English was published nearly six decades ago. Now, in The Making of the First Korean President, Young Ick Lew uncovers littl……続きを見る
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The……続きを見る
Nordkorea gilt als rätselhaftes Land. Es bedroht die Nachbarn mit der Atombombe, kann seine Bevölkerung nicht ausreichend ernähren und betreibt geheime Straflager. Gleichzeitig wird das Bild einer h……続きを見る
Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, author Sunhee Koo provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as mani……続きを見る
The tragedy of the Jews during the Second World War is well-known to the world, but you don’t know much about the torture that Koreans suffered during the same period. You will never imagine it wit……続きを見る
The tragedy of the Jews during the Second World War is well-known to the world, but you don’t know much about the torture that Koreans suffered during the same period. You will never imagine it with……続きを見る
The tragedy of the Jews during the Second World War is well-known to the world, but you don’t know much about the torture that Koreans suffered during the same period. You will never imagine it wit……続きを見る
In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several dis……続きを見る