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Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan by Clark W. Sorensen
RRP: £40.00£34.72Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the... -
Dynamics Of The Korean State: From The Paleolithic Age To Candlelight Democracy by Robert E Bedeski
RRP: £90.00£78.18One Korea or two?The persistence of North and South Korea since 1948 has been a source of one war and fears of new wars. Although they share centuries of common culture, society and politics, the two nations differ on fundamentals today: capitalist... -
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry by Peter H. Lee
RRP: £32.00£24.27This groundbreaking anthology, edited by the veteran scholar who founded the field of Korean literature in the West, offers a representative selection from the four major genres of native Korean poetry: the Silla songs known as hyangga, Koryo songs,... -
Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945 by Alyssa M. Park
RRP: £51.00£43.46Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan-through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies-competed to control Korean migrants as... -
Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization by Clark W. Sorensen
RRP: £29.99£25.99Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization. Still one of the only book-length... -
The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea by Jisoo M. Kim
RRP: £29.99£25.99The Choson state (1392-1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that... -
Korea in World History by Donald Clark
RRP: £13.99£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304668Author Donald ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams) 163g -
Korea's Divided Families: Fifty Years of Separation by James Foley
RRP: £135.00£117.28The divided families problem is a serious social issue in North and South Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of first generation divided family members, most of whom have not seen their relatives since the Korean War. It is the most pressing... -
The Korean War and Postmemory Generation: Contemporary Korean Arts and Films by Dong-Yeon Koh
RRP: £125.00£107.86This pioneering volume navigates cultural memory of the Korean War through the lens of contemporary arts and film in South Korea. Cultural memory of the Korean War has been a subject of persistent controversy in the forging of South Korean postwar... -
The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush
RRP: £55.00£42.54The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had... -
Rationality in the North Korean Regime: Understanding the Kims’ Strategy of Provocation by David W. Shin
RRP: £38.00£35.22How and why are the Kims rational? There is no consensus about either the Kims’ rationality or how best to determine if they are rational actors. Rationality in the North Korean Regime offers a concise and finite method to assess rationality by examining... -
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea by Namhee Lee
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from... -
Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea by Charles R. Kim
RRP: £89.00£76.31Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Choson Dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea,... -
Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies by Victor Cha
RRP: £28.00£21.36Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang's Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether... -
North Korea under Communism: Report of an Envoy to Paradise by Erik Cornell
RRP: £135.00£117.28After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine. What are the reasons behind this peculiar choice of direction? Why did the... -
Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity by Hyung Il Pai
RRP: £29.99£25.99Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservators-and millions of tourists. As iconic markers of racial and cultural identity at home and abroad, they are embraced... -
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945 by Hong Yung Lee
RRP: £40.00£34.32Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space... -
The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea by Hyun Ok Park
RRP: £25.00£19.18The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial... -
The Making of Korea in East Asia: A Korean History by Chizuko T. Allen
£77.71The Making of Korea in East Asia: A Korean History provides students with a comprehensive exploration of the history of Korea from its origins to present day. The text is organized into eight chapters. The opening chapters discuss the geography and... -
Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States by Seung-kyung Kim
RRP: £94.00£80.10From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A small yet significant number of them returned to the United States and entered academia, forming the core of a second... -
The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided by Theodore Jun Yoo
RRP: £23.00£17.72What history, pop culture, and diaspora can teach us about North and South Korea today.Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal... -
Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon
£93.61In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire's collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan... -
A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea by Eugene Y. Park
RRP: £72.00£60.92Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park... -
Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Suzy Kim
RRP: £48.00£41.37During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily... -
Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea by Juhn Y. Ahn
RRP: £29.99£25.99Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn... -
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers by Scott A. Snyder
RRP: £20.00£15.54Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at... -
Korea: A Cartographic History by John Rennie Short
RRP: £50.00£48.25The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, "Korea: A Cartographic History" provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today's most prolific and... -
Queer Korea by Todd A. Henry
RRP: £103.00£88.04Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, "queer" Koreans were ignored, minimized, and... -
Voice from the North: Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672-1736) by Sun Joo Kim
RRP: £63.00£53.44Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a... -
Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896-1910 by Yumi Moon
RRP: £51.00£43.86An 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... -
Korea - A Religious History by James H. Grayson
RRP: £61.99£53.61This is an historical survey of all the religious traditions of Korea in relation to the socio-cultural trends of seven different periods of Korean history. The book includes a discussion of the history of the study of religion in Korea, a chronological... -
Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century by Soyoung Suh
RRP: £33.95£26.89Naming the Local uncovers how Koreans domesticated foreign medical novelties on their own terms, while simultaneously modifying the Korea-specific expressions of illness and wellness to make them accessible to the wider network of scholars and audiences... -
South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy by Key-Young Son
RRP: £43.99£38.44A fresh historical and theoretical exploration of the much-debated, but still elusive, question of the Korean divide. In contrast to much of the literature on the divide, which deals with state-building on the two sides of the Demilitarized Zone, this... -
Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee by Hyung-A. Kim
RRP: £53.99£46.87Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily... -
The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture by Sun Joo Kim
RRP: £40.00£34.72The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. The making and... -
Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy by Hyung-A Kim
RRP: £27.99£23.66South Korea's triumphant development has catapulted the country's economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebols, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet... -
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island by Kyoim Yun
RRP: £29.99£25.99Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shaman's Wages offers the first in-depth study of simbang, hereditary shamans on Cheju Island off the peninsula's southwest coast. In this engaging... -
Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961 by Cheehyung Harrison Kim
RRP: £62.00£47.36In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at both work and home. In Heroes and... -
Landlords, Peasants, and Intellectuals in Modern Korea by Pang
RRP: £56.00£48.02This volume introduces, for the first time in English, the work of one of the major schools of historiography in South Korea. Centered at Yonsei University, the school focuses on intellectual and socioeconomic history. A selection of studies illuminates... -
The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho
RRP: £27.99£23.66Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2022 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)Honorable Mention, 28th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (MLA)Shortlisted for...