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  • After the Korean War

    An Intimate History

    by Heonik Kwon ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Other Cold War

    by Heonik Kwon ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • After the Massacre

    Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

    by Heonik Kwon ...
    Series Book 14 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My—a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians—assimilate the catastrophe of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Spirit Power

    Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

    by Heonik Kwon, Jun Hwan Park ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country’s indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • North Korea

    Beyond Charismatic Politics

    by Byung-Ho Chung, Heonik Kwon ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea’s political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country’s unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung’s rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Looking Back on the Vietnam War

    Twenty-first-Century Perspectives

    by Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim, Quan Tue Tran, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lan Duong, Vinh Nguyen, Robert Mason, Leonie Jones, Heonik Kwon0, Diane Niblack Fox1, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials2, Yen Le Espiritu3 ...
    Series series War Culture
    More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam.Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    by Paul Cohen ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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  • Fire in the Lake

    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

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  • What Is Global History?

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  • A Story of Vietnam

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

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