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  • The New History of Korean Civilization

    by Chai-Shin Yu ...
    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 existence of a distinctive Korean culture established by the Korean people and separate from its Chinese and ... Read more

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  • Sino-Latin American Economic and Trade Relations

    Edited by Yu Chai, Yunxia Yue ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This is the first English book on the economic relations between China and Latin America written by Chinese scholars. The authors are all from the Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences — China’s premier think tank. By combining empirical techniques and political-economic analysis, it investigates the history of and the outlook for China-Latin America relations. It ... Read more

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    North Korea, Past and Future

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    From a seasoned advisor, "a meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy" ( Foreign Affairs).In The Impossible State, international-policy expert and former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolated country, providing the best look yet at North Korea's history, the ... Read more

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  • The New Koreans

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    by Michael Breen ...
    Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been ... Read more

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  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

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  • The Massacres at Mt. Halla

    Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea

    by Hun Joon Kim ...
    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 landscape around Mt. Halla in Jeju Province, South Korea. The counterinsurgency strategy was ... Read more

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  • The Korean War

    From World War to Cold War

    by 50minutes ...
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    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Korean War in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Korean War. On 25 June 1950, North Korean troops marched across the 38th parallel, the imaginary border between the North and South of the peninsula. This marked the escalation of diplomatic tensions into open ... Read more

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  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    by Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Read more

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    Updated since the decision to begin Turkey's admission to the European Union. Turkey is a country in a state of flux, swept along by an extraordinary process of change. In the last few years, a series of far-reaching political and economic reforms has swept away much of the old order which ruled the country for so long. Some people call it a second Turkish revolution. But resistance to reform ... Read more

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  • The East Asian War, 1592-1598

    International Relations, Violence and Memory

    Edited by James B. Lewis ...
    Series series Asian States and Empires
    As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war – the invasion of Korea in the 1590s by Japan’s ruler Hideyoshi. This war involved Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Southeast ... Read more

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  • The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan

    Geopolitics, Identity and Nation-Building

    by Myung Ja Kim ...
    The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan. Unlike the Korean diasporas living in Russia, China or the US, the Zainichi have become sharply divided along ... Read more

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  • The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right

    Hegemonic Masculinity

    by Nami Kim ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right’s gendered politics. Specifically, the volume explores the Protestant Right’s responses and reactions to the presumed weakening of hegemonic masculinity in Korea’s post-hypermasculine developmentalism context. Nami Kim examines three phenomena: Father School (an evangelical men’s manhood and fatherhood restoration ... Read more

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