Korea

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472075201Author Stephen Hong SohnFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

The only full-scale history of Syngman Rhee's (1875-1965) early career in English was published nearly six decades ago. Now, in The Making of the First Korean President, Young Ick Lew uncovers little-known aspects of Rhee's leadership roles prior to...

Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, Balancing Communities examines how the competing demands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013756498Author Harold VoelkelFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 240g

Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states-the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea-by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s–1960s). The existing historiography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988692879Author Korea Institute Harvard UniversityFormat HardbackPage Count 433Imprint Harvard University, Korea InstitutePublisher Harvard University,...

Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, Balancing Communities examines how the competing demands...

This volume is a fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongso (The Encyclopedia of Daily Life). Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law, the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013740947Author Philip CrosbieFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013675928Author Richard C AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 381g

One of the most important and popular premodern Korean novels, The Story of Hong Gildong is a fast-paced adventure story about the illegitimate son of a nobleman who becomes the leader of a band of honest outlaws who take from the rich and punish the...

In 1975, a young high school teacher took the stage at a prayer meeting in a southwestern Korean city to recite a poem called ""The Winter Republic."" The poem became an anthem against the military dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and...

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...

Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both books presented notions of wealth and the economy for critical review: the...

Seoul is a colossus both in its physical presence and the demand it places on any intellectual effort to understand it. How did it come to be? How can a city this immense work? Underlying its spectacle and incongruities is a city that might be described...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014216601Author Carl 1925 Jan 28- BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 308g

Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014475831Author Central Intelligence AgencyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 327g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781019367773Author Floyd L CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 218g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014870681Author Ok-Cha 1909- ChoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 159g

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One of the most important and popular premodern Korean novels, The Story of Hong Gildong is a fast-paced adventure story about the illegitimate son of a nobleman who becomes the leader of a band of honest outlaws who take from the rich and punish the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015167360Author James T 1921- StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 458g

In the mid-20th century, Korea was dubbed the last custodian of Confucianism, but it is now very hard to even call the country a truly Confucian society. Following this argument, Quo Vadis Korea? explores critically how some five decades of breakneck...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013407963Author Central Intelligence AgencyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013440205Author Richard C AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 553g

Focusing 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...

In Surviving Imperial Intrigues, Sangpil Jin explores how successful Korean neutralization could have radically transformed the balance of power equation in East Asia. He conducted multilocational archival work, analyzing documents from the...

South Korea is home to cutting-edge electronics, state-of-the-art medical facilities, and ubiquitous high-speed internet. The country's meteoric rise from the ashes of the Korean War (1950-1953) to rank among the world's most technologically advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824867768Author Ji-Yeon O JoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii PressWeight(grams) 152g

Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions-cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent...

In Surviving Imperial Intrigues, Sangpil Jin explores how successful Korean neutralization could have radically transformed the balance of power equation in East Asia. He conducted multilocational archival work, analyzing documents from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824891589Author Werner SasseFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii PressWeight(grams) 152g

In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country's transformation from a nation...

North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries. The acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scholarship. Through his access to Soviet archival material made available only a decade ago, contemporary...

An 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...

Why and how did Korean religious groups respond to growing rural poverty, social dislocation, and the corrosion of culture caused by forces of modernization under strict Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945)? Questions about religion's relationship and...