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Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Art. Edited by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin. A collection of poem...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Selected by Cheryl Strayed for the Kore Press Institute Memoir Award. CERTAIN AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS b...

How do people claim rights in South Korea? This collection analyzes how rights are interpreted and acted upon via petitions, court claims, protest,...

Reducere. What is it like to live in or visit South Korea? What makes South Korea's culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Sou...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispers...

Eva Mozes Kor forges a path of reconciliation and healing as a Holocaust survivor, sharing her life-changing message that forgiveness frees us from...

Reducere. DescriptionThe east Asian nation of South Korea is a land of gorgeous natural landscapes, with green forests, towering mountains, and ocean beaches...

Reducere. When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three...

DescriptionWhile popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those mov...

Through direct access to DPRK leadership, Glyn Ford proposes that the media myth of a 'mad' or 'rogue' North Korea is unhelpful, that there is rati...

Examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in bot...

Diplomatic expert Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the two Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer ...

Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses on answering several hi...

After a Choson faction realigned Korea with the Ming dynasty, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, forcing Korea to support the ne...

Reducere. There is a continuing academic and policy interest in the potential for culture-based urban regeneration across the world. Such regeneration is int...

Discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chosn in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe C...

DescriptionThe perfect gift for newly engaged couple, the newly married couple, or those who have been married for years It all began with As You G...

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians--merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers--left their homelan...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a milestone in the history of academic research on the development and role of geomancy (fengshui in Chinese and p'ungsu in...

Reducere. In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Kori SchakeHistory records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance ...

Reducere. DescriptionKorea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean histor...

Reducere. Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Chosŏn dynasty in 1392 and had apparently achieved its purp...

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Reducere. For members of the U.S. Army's "Task Force Faith" and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, coura...

From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundati...

This Element evaluates the shifting relationship between the state, society, and markets in North Korea in an authoritarian context. By opening the...

The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the ...

Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda

Reducere. In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

Reducere. Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the ...

Reducere. Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia a...

DescriptionThe Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South Korea, going beyond the descriptive emp...

The book offers a new perspective to Korean legal history by focusing on the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Kor...

Reducere. A monumental addition to the understudied field of Korean art, this brilliantly illustrated volume assembles the perspectives of art historians, cr...

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Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Hsin-Chieh ChangNumber of pages: 272Collection: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Loc...

Using newly collected data from American and Korean newspapers, this book examines relations between the United States and South Korea from 1992 to...

At the start of the twenty-first century challenges to the global hegemony of U.S. culture are more apparent than ever. Two of the contenders vying...

Reducere. Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peacefu...

Heroes and Toilers offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that looks at both governance and popular resistance. C...

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and su...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel HawleyIn May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158, 800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan...

DescriptionAn Inspirational Memoir Spanning Nine DecadesFrom a Depression-era childhood in the Kentucky mountains, Eldon Cornett went on to: - Stor...

Contributor(s): Author: Loretta NapoleoniIn her characteristically direct approach, political analyst Loretta Napoleoni takes on the vexing story a...

Reducere. This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Be...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-orient...

Reducere. African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segr...

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

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The Late Modernist Novel is primarily for an academic readership, especially scholars and students of modernism, the novel, and the politics of lit...

DescriptionThis book is a collection of folk tales from both North and South Korea, in which readers will encounter traditional Korean dragons, hea...

From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fr...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted...

Reducere. In September 2017, North Korea shocked the world by exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier, it had ...

Reducere. For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth ...

DescriptionIn an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women--mostly Korean women forced into...

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Ko...

Reducere. The book you are holding is different than most military histories. It offers a fascinating variety of stories that go beyond the battlefields into...

Reducere. Volume 2 of the two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military chief of staff from World War II through Viet...

Offers case studies from international negotiations in which the author participated that can help illustrate the tactics and theories of each type...