Korea category: 281 books
Koreans In Iran
Missiles, Markets and Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Iran and Korea are both at the top of the headlines these days. Do they have anything to do with each other?
As tensions rise again, few of us are aware that the two Koreas and Iran are engaging in many ways, and have been for more than fifty years. Despite the nations’ seeming dissimilarities,...
Curative Violence
Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and...
Accidental Activists
Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not. Relatively powerless groups like redress claimants...
Song of Ariran
The Life Story of a Korean Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1941
Here for the first time is a personal account direct from a leader of the Korean rebels fighting against the Japanese who have ruled them for a generation. It is a story that fits the American tradition and the American wish to understand and support all peoples who have fought against their...
King Wiman 1
Wiman Ugeo
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
After Wiman was ousted from political authority of Gojoseon, he gathered the military outside and built country Wiman. And, at first he planned to invade Bukbuyeo united with king Yucheol of country Han, to govern North Asia, but he solely attacked Bukbuyeo using a commotion of the inside disorder...
by Mia Chung
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Trees don't have ears.
How are you so sure?
As they attempt to flee the Best Nation in the World, North Korean sisters Minhee and Junhee are torn apart at the border. Each must race across time and space to be together again – navigating the perilous Land of the Free and the treacherous terrain...
What Really Happened in Nanking?
A Spiritual Testimony of the Honorable Japanese Commander Iwane Matsui
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The second book on Nanking Massacre using a religious journalism-type approach.
The so-called “Nanking Massacre” is the incident which the Chinese government claims the Japanese forces conducted during the Battle of Nanking in 1937. In June 2014, the Chinese government submitted an application...
by Stanley E. Henning, Robert W. Young, Willy Pieter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The Korean War
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Although sixty-five years have passed since the armistice, the Korean conflict has never really ended. Tensions remain high on the peninsula as Washington and Pyongyang, as well as Seoul and Pyongyang, continue to face off. It is even more timely now to address the origins of the Korean War, the nature...
Yi Hwang's Letter
I am deeply disappointed
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Who could possible know a person better than his or her parents? We will read the letters of the great men from Chosun, who were "fathers" before they were scholars, officers and writers. What kind of letter did Lee Hwang (Toegye, 1501-1570), scholar and civil servant from the mid-Chosun...
by Hwang Sok-Yong
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts...
DMZ Crossing
Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection...
by Stefano Pili
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Al termine della II guerra mondiale, con un mondo segnato dai disastrosi e rovinosi eventi bellici che provava, con fatica, a risollevarsi, si assistette all'ascesa degli USA e dell'URSS e alla costituzione di due blocchi: quello Capitalista, filo-Statunitense e quello Comunista, filo-Sovietico. Due...
by Suah Bae
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize
"Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow—to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know—which is no small offering."—Sophie Hughes, Music & Literature
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