Korea category: 281 books
Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War
Food in Twentieth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
When you consider the size of Korea’s population and the breadth of its territory, it’s easy to see that this small region has played a disproportionately large role in twentieth-century history. The peninsula has experienced colonial submission at the hands of Japan, occupation by the United...
Unexpected Alliances
Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
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 about? In Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park seeks to answer these questions by exploring the cultural...
Tourist Distractions
Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses hallyu (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration...
Long Road Home
Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration...
Under the Black Umbrella
Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umbrella"...
by Chai-Shin Yu
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Throughout its 4,000-year history, Korea has created a vibrant and unique culture. Unfortunately, many believe it developed solely due to Chinas influence, thus leaving no room for an independent history and culture. This is simply wrong.
The New History of Korean Civilization explores the...
by Charles K. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly...
The Two Koreas
A Contemporary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
An acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day
North Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in particular, with destruction....
A Concise History of Korea
From Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the present. Michael J. Seth explores the origins and development of Korean society, politics, and still little-known cultural heritage from their inception to the two Korean states of...
The Massacres at Mt. Halla
Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
In The Massacres at Mt. Halla, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947. The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged...
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail
Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China,...
Populist Collaborators
The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An empire invites local collaborators in the making and sustenance of its colonies. Between 1896 and 1910, Japan’s project to colonize Korea was deeply intertwined with the movements of reform-minded Koreans to solve the crisis of the Choson dynasty (1392–1910). Among those reformers, it was the...
Reisherinneringen uit Korea en China (Geïllustreerd)
De Aarde en haar Volken, 1904
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Het was op een helderen voorjaarsdag in ’t begin van Mei, toen de heesters op de berghellingen hun nieuw groen kleed hadden aangetrokken, azalea’s in vroolijke tinten hun sierlijke bloesems ontplooiden, en de zon niettegenstaande de opstijvende voorjaarsbries weldadig tintelde, dat de Genkai-Maru,...
Im Kwon-Taek
The Making of a Korean National Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making industry that produced at least 240 films. For a period of forty years, after Korea was liberated from colonialism,...