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af Yeong Hwan Choi ...

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Gender, Power, and Military Occupations

Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945

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Serier serie Routledge Research in Gender and History
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The Korean War

An International History

af Wada Haruki ...

Serier serie Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
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Constructing Student Mobility

How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul

af Stephanie K. Kim ...

How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets—and how university financials shape students’ lives.The popular image of the international student in the American imagination is one of affluence, access, and privilege, but is that image accurate? In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim challenges this view, arguing that universities—not the ... Læs mere

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East Asia at the Center

Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World

af Warren I. Cohen ...

A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the perspective of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia shows that the region's extensive involvement in world affairs began thousands of years ago.In a time when the writing of history is increasingly ... Læs mere

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Five Broken Blades

Four Ruined Realms

The Birth of Korean Cool

Escape from Camp 14

The Great Successor

Three Shattered Souls

Korea: The Impossible Country

Globalizing the Soybean

Violets

The Border - A Journey Around Russia

Shrimp to Whale

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

On a marché dans Pyongyang

The History of Korea Vol. II

Populist Collaborators

Women and Buddhist Philosophy

Democratization and Democracy in South Korea, 1960–Present

The Mask of True Faces

The Purge Revolution: A Hundred Days That Shook South Korea

Gender, Power, and Military Occupations

The Korean War

Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea

Constructing Student Mobility

East Asia at the Center