Korea category: 281 books
A Concise History of Premodern Korea
From Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the region through the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Seth’s thorough chronological narrative equally emphasizes social, cultural, and political history....
by James E. Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
As Kim Jong Un approaches the seventh anniversary of his coming to power he has pushed the military back. The modified Constitution adopted in 2016 saw the demotion of the National Defense Council in favor of a new State Affairs Council which was a more party and government dominated body. He has...
Seowon
The Architecture of Korea's Private Academics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Korean Culture Series 2
Seowon : The Architecture of Korea's Private Academics
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the private institutions, which were dedicated to higher learning that eventually emerged at the forefront of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. It examines...
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism
Spectacle, Politics and History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...
by T'aejun Yi
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The Confucian gentleman scholars of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) often published short anecdotes exemplifying their values and aesthetic concerns. In modern Seoul one scholar in particular would excel at adapting this style to a contemporary readership: Yi T'aejun.
Yi T'aejun was a prolific...
Epistolary Korea
Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosôn, 1392-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
By expanding the definition of "epistle" to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?n Korea. The Chos?n dynasty (1392-1910) produced an abundance of epistles, writings that mirror the...
Reconstructing Ancient Korean History
The Formation of Korean-ness in the Shadow of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book examines the contested re-readings of “Korea” in early Chinese historical records and their influence on the formation of Korean-ness in later periods. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents produced during the Han dynasty, from the third century...
Seeking Order in a Tumultuous Age
The Writings of Chŏng Tojŏn, a Korean Neo-Confucian
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Chŏng Tojŏn, one of the most influential thinkers in Korean history, played a leading role in the establishment of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). Long recognized for his contributions to the development of Neo-Confucianism in Korea, Chŏng was both a prodigious writer and an influential statesman...
A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea
Xu Jing’s Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
"The king and ministers, superior and inferior, move with ritual and refinement. When the king goes on an inspection tour, everyone has the correct ceremonial attributes and the divine flag [troops] gallop in front while armored soldiers block the road. The soldiers of the Six Divisions all hold...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Included in this volume are studies of the traditional leadership of the Yi dynasty as well as twentieth-century legislative, party, and bureaucratic leadership, and an evaluation of views of political leaders in South Korea, as well as two studies of the Communist system in North Korea.
Colonizing Language
Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender...
Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea
Crossing the Divide
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Drawing on reinterpretations of melancholia and collective remembrance, Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the multi-layered implications of divided Korea's liminality, or its perceived "in-betweenness" in space and time. Offering a timely reconsideration...
by Djun Kil Kim
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This revised edition examines North and South Korea's political, socio-economic, and cultural history from the Neolithic period to the early 21st century, including issues of recent political unrest and preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• Includes an expanded bibliography with additional...
by James E. Hoare
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The Korean Peninsula lies at the strategic heart of East Asia, between China, Russia, and Japan, and has been influenced in different ways and at different times by all three of them. Across the Pacific lies the United State, which has also had a major influence on the peninsula since the first encounters...