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  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    von Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti …
    Übersetzt von David Tian …
    Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,57

  • Five Broken Blades

    Discover the Sunday Times bestselling adventure fantasy filled with assassins, betrayal and magic

    von Mai Corland …
    Serien Buch 1 - The Broken Blades
    FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VERITY GUILDFive ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Six of Crows meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop inspired by Korean myth and legend'This dazzling fantasy has it all: a richly developed world, a captivating ensemble cast, and a twisty, action-packed quest' KAREN … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 5,49

  • Nothing to Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

    Real Lives In North Korea

    von Barbara Demick …
    North Korea is Orwell"s 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country"s great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended, and Nothing to Envy - winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,76

  • The Rebel and the Kingdom

    The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

    von Bradley Hope …
    **'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 GLOBAL FUGITIVE?**In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 3,99

  • Without You, There Is No Us

    My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

    von Suki Kim …
    It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.Life at the university … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,99

  • The Aquariums of Pyongyang

    Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

    von Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot …
    "Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying.Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,49

  • Violets

    From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother

    von Kyung-Sook Shin …
    Übersetzt von Jung Bum Hur …
    'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha'Strange and gripping' GuardianSan is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city centre.Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life - painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Kor... … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 3,99

  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

    A Modern History

    von Bruce Cumings …
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 17,37

  • Francisco Pizarro, der Eroberer von Peru (Romanbiografie)

    Nach den alten Quellen erzählt von Arthur Schurig

    von Arthur Schurig …
    Dieses eBook: "Francisco Pizarro, der Eroberer von Peru (Romanbiografie)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Arthur Schurig (1870-1929) war ein deutscher Philologe, Archäologe, Schriftsteller und Übersetzer. Francisco Pizarro war ein spanischer Conquistador, der das Reich der Inka eroberte. Pizarro unternahm mit seinen … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 0,49

  • The Border - A Journey Around Russia

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

    von Erika Fatland …
    Übersetzt von Kari Dickson …
    A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,49

  • An Asian Frontier

    American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945

    von Robert Oppenheim …
    Serien series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea as a significant object of concern for American anthropology during the period from 1882 to 1945 … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 51,03

  • Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism

    The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn

    Übersetzt von Richard D. McBride, II …
    von Robert E. Buswell, Jr. …
    Serien series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
    Ŭich’ŏn (1055-1101) is recognized as a Buddhist master of great stature in the East Asian tradition. Born a prince in the medieval Korean state of Koryŏ (960-1279), he traveled to Song China (960-1279) to study Buddhism and later compiled and published the first collection of East Asian exegetical texts. According to the received scholarly tradition, after returning to Korea, Ŭich’ŏn left the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 21,33

  • Korean P'ansori Singing Tradition

    Development, Authenticity, and Performance History

    von Yeonok Jang …
    In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of p’ansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. P’ansori is a music genre—an oral tradition comprising arias and narratives. Often the individual singer acts out the story of young and old, good and bad, and male … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 106,47

  • Women and Buddhist Philosophy

    Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp

    von Jin Y. Park …
    Serien series Studies of the International Center for Korean Studies, Korea University
    Why and how do women engage with Buddhism and philosophy? The present volume aims to answer these questions by examining the life and philosophy of a Korean Zen Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971). The daughter of a pastor, Iryŏp began questioning Christian doctrine as a teenager. In a few years, she became increasingly involved in women’s movements in Korea, speaking against society’s control of … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 67,97

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    von Sandra Fahy …
    Serien series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 29,80

  • Korea - A Religious History

    von James H. Grayson …
    This 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 description of Korean folk religion including shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Islam, and Korean New … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 86,17

  • Yun Dong-ju

    A Critical Biography

    von Song WooHye …
    Übersetzt von Flora M. Kim …
    Serien series DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation
    Historian and novelist Song WooHye chronicles the life of Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), one of the most beloved and important poets in the modern Korean literary canon, widely considered Korea's "National Poet". Beginning with the history of the North Gando region (now Yanbian, China), where Yun was born, and ending with facts behind the publication of his only and posthumous poetry collection, Sky, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 25,84

  • Soviet-North Korean Relations During the Cold War

    Unruly Offspring

    von Fyodor Tertitskiy …
    Serien series Routledge Research on Korea
    This book explores Soviet–North Korean relations during the Cold War (1945–1991).Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and Korean), it reveals how the influence of the Soviets on Pyongyang diminished during the course of the Cold War, from overwhelming at the time of the foundation of North Korea to negligible at the time of the collapse of the USSR. The book delves into … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 55,75

  • The Cold War in East Asia

    von Xiaobing Li …
    This textbook provides a survey of East Asia during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Focusing on the persistence and flexibility of its culture and tradition when confronted by the West and the US, this book investigates how they intermesh to establish the nations that have entered the modern world.Through the use of newly declassified Communist sources, the narrative helps students form a better … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 70,96

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Korea

    Bearbeitet von Won W. Lee …
    Serien series Oxford Handbooks
    The phenomenon of South Korean Christianity is, in a word, remarkable. In less than 250 years, 29% of South Korea's population adheres to Christianity, a staggering 71% of Korean Americans identify as Christian, and the powerful zeal of Korean Christians to spread the Gospel's influence in South Korea already overshadows other established religious groups (i.e. Buddhism, Confucianism). This … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 146,18

  • Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia

    New Perspectives, 1894-1953

    Bearbeitet von Aglaia De Angeli, Peter Robinson, Peter O’Connor, Emma Reisz, Tsuchiya Reiko …
    Serien series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. In the process, they contested and at the same time adopted many of the physical and rhetorical features of Old-World imperialism, mitigated by domestic political forces and deeply ingrained cultural and historical values.With chapters … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 55,75

  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    von Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu …
    Serien 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 … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 78,57

  • Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea

    Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814

    von Sang-ho Ro …
    Serien series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the European Enlightenment in the late 18th and 19th centuries.In the late Choson period the regime felt threatened by the new, more empirical, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 59,56

  • A Misunderstood Friendship

    Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976

    von Zhihua Shen, Yafeng Xia …
    Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence.In … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 56,42