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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780520280489
RRP: £27.00£21.03Lady 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 Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life... -
Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire by Susie Woo
RRP: £27.99£23.66An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and... -
Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
RRP: £25.00£21.98Charts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today's thriving nation. South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real... -
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor 9780804844581
RRP: £16.99£14.45**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent... -
Rediscovering Korean Cinema by Sangjoon Lee
£49.84South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean... -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: £33.95£26.25A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted... -
Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel by Wan-suh Park
RRP: £16.99£13.34Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea... -
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong
RRP: £30.00£25.58On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds... -
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang 9780393249224
RRP: £21.99£18.55Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household-her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: £16.99£11.67WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
Immovable Object: North Korea's 70 Years at War with American Power by A B Abrams
RRP: £21.50£19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762303Author A B AbramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 665Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 48gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 34mm -
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea by Byung-Kook Kim
RRP: £25.95£22.85In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park... -
The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea by Henry H. Em
RRP: £23.99£20.81In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em... -
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak
RRP: £20.00£15.11'The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account' Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear... -
The Korean War: 1950–53 by Carter Malkasian
RRP: £12.99£9.54In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea. From 1950 to 1953, the most powerful countries in the world engaged in a major conventional war in Korea. Yet ironically... -
A Kim Jong-il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
RRP: £28.99£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054272Author Paul FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom by Stephen Gowans 9781771861359
RRP: £24.95£16.35Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition... -
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope
RRP: £20.00£13.35'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna FifieldHOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A... -
Yalu River 1950-51: The Chinese spring the trap on MacArthur by Clayton K. S. Chun
RRP: £15.99£11.61Following the Inchon landings and the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, UN forces crossed the North Korean border on 9 October and moved on the capital Pyongyang. Many in America believed the war would be over by Christmas, but some Washington... -
Korea's Twentieth-century Odyssey: A Short History by Michael Edson Robinson 9780824831745
RRP: £28.95£23.36For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating... -
Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry by Sonia Ryang
RRP: £33.95£26.89Often depicted as one of the world's most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the... -
Modern South Korean Air Power: The Republic of Korea Air Force Today by Robin Polderman
RRP: £35.99£22.38Since the early 1950s, the heavily industrialised nation of South Korea has seen steady growth and is now the world's seventh-largest exporter and 11th-largest economy overall. As the Cold War on the Korean peninsula gathered momentum, the development of... -
Eyewitness Korea: The Experience of British and American Soldiers in the Korean War 1950-1953 by James Goulty 9781473870901
RRP: £25.00£17.62Today the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time it was the focus of international attention. It threatened to lead to a third world war, and although fought on a... -
Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945 by Brandon Palmer
RRP: £29.99£27.38Fighting for the Enemy explores the participation of Koreans in the Japanese military and supporting industries before and during World War II, first through voluntary enlistment and eventually through conscription. Contrary to popular belief among... -
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project by Robert S. Boynton
RRP: £9.99£6.70During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in 'Invitation Only Zones', high-security detention-centres masked as exclusive areas, on the outskirts of... -
Culture and the State in Late Choson Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush
RRP: £16.95£13.54Investigating the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, this work looks at the shifting boundaries between the Choson state and the adherents of Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and popular religions. Seeking to define the meaning and... -
Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
RRP: £29.99£26.44While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its recorded history of some two millennia remains unfamiliar to most. Korea: A History addresses general readers,... -
A New History of Korea by Ki-Baik Lee
RRP: £26.95£21.37The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960... -
North Korea: A History by Michael J. Seth
£30.64In this key textbook, Michael J. Seth offers an excellent synthesis of existing scholarship, including a thorough examination of contemporary sources. Seth masterfully traces how North Korea gradually transformed itself from a Soviet-style socialist... -
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 by Charles J. Hanley
RRP: £16.99£11.54Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea --- more than the entire Pacific campaign of... -
Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World by Michael J. Seth
RRP: £15.99£10.93An engaging history covering a century of conflict on the Korean PeninsulaKorea at War recounts how two separate nations emerged on the Korean peninsula as the result of devastating conflicts involving provocative personalities and superpower intrigues... -
Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Suzy Kim 9781501705687
RRP: £26.99£22.85During 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... -
A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict by Jinwung Kim 9780253000248
RRP: £45.00£21.48Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more than... -
The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945 by Vladimir Tikhonov 9780824896119
RRP: £27.95£22.58Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and travelogues by socialist writers, The Red Decades reveals Marxian socialism as a cultural phenomenon of... -
Landlords, Peasants, and Intellectuals in Modern Korea by Pang 9781885445285
RRP: £27.99£23.66This 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... -
Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control by Juhn Young Ahn 9780472073771
£83.92Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea's raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party,... -
Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control by Juhn Young Ahn 9780472053773
RRP: £25.95£21.04Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea's raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party,... -
The Impossible State, Updated Edition: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha 9780062906366
RRP: £22.00£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062906366Author Victor ChaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 440g -
Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea by Sunyoung Park 9780472074129
RRP: £77.00£63.28An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea's transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung ("the... -
Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s by Youngju Ryu 9780472053964
RRP: £29.95£24.13Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative period of time South Korea's Fourth Republic (1972-79), beginning with its declaration by Park Chung Hee and ending with his assassination. With its institution and the dictatorial powers...