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  • Five Broken Blades

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

    by Mai Corland ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    5,40 €

  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    Translated by 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 ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • A Geek in Korea

    Discovering Asia's New Kingdom of Cool

    by Daniel Tudor ...
    For every fan of K-Pop music, Korean Wave dramas and Kimchi—or anyone intrigued by Korea and Korean culture—A Geek in Korea is a hip, new guide to the land of the Samsung smartphone and Gangnam Style.Author Dan Tudor first arrived in Korea on the eve of the 2002 World Cup when South Korea played Italy in the finals. What he saw inspired him to return and work in Korea. He served as The Economist ... Read more

    7,52 €

  • An Asian Frontier

    American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945

    Series 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 ... Read more

    49,17 €

  • Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism

    The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn

    Series 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 ... Read more

    20,55 €

  • Korean P'ansori Singing Tradition

    Development, Authenticity, and Performance History

    by 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 ... Read more

    106,52 €

  • Women and Buddhist Philosophy

    Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp

    by Jin Y. Park ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    65,50 €

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    by Sandra Fahy ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    28,72 €

  • Korea - A Religious History

    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 ... Read more

    83,04 €

  • Soviet-North Korean Relations During the Cold War

    Unruly Offspring

    Series 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 ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • The Cold War in East Asia

    by 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 ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia

    New Perspectives, 1894-1953

    Series 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 ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • 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

    75,71 €

  • Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea

    Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814

    by Sang-ho Ro ...
    Series 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, ... Read more

    57,39 €

  • A Misunderstood Friendship

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

    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 ... Read more

    54,37 €

  • South Korea's Origins and Early Relations with the United States

    The Lynchpin of Hegemonic Power

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Bringing a fresh perspective to an understudied area, this book offers a critical, source-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) and the US during World War II in the rebirth of Korea as a nation state.Presenting original research from contemporary Korean and American sources, the first half of this book explores how the US policy ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Diplomatic Style and Foreign Policy

    A Case Study of South Korea

    Series series Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
    The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea.Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as irrelevant in the context of diplomacy’s universalism; misconstrued as a component of foreign policy; alluded to perfunctorily amidst broader considerations of foreign ... Read more

    59,83 €

  • 悲慘的韓國歷史及其與世界歷史的聯繫

    Translated by A I ...
    韓國的悲慘歷史與全球歷史息息相關。韓國的重大事件並非孤立發生,而是發生在東亞和世界政治、經濟和軍事轉變的大背景下。這種關係提供了寶貴的洞察力,讓我們了解韓國在全球歷史大潮流中的位置。歷史不只是關於過去,它是更好地了解我們自己、我們的社會和我們成長潛力的工具。您目前最有興趣探索歷史的哪一部分?通過研究歷史,我們可以從過去的成功和失敗中學習。這可以幫助我們避免重蹈覆轍,並複製在解決問題時行之有效的策略。------------------------------------------------壬辰倭亂 (Imjin War) 是東亞地區的重大歷史事件,標誌著韓國復興的時刻以及海上防禦策略的重要性。Byeongja Horan 被記載為韓國歷史上的創傷事件,象徵著朝鮮王朝在政治和軍事衰弱時期的脆弱。炳仁之役說明了韓國傳統的孤立主義與 19 世紀西方帝國主義日益增長的壓力之間的緊張關係。--- ... Read more

    6,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nordkorea

    Einblicke in ein rätselhaftes Land

    Nordkorea gilt als rätselhaftes Land. Es bedroht die Nachbarn mit der Atombombe, kann seine Bevölkerung nicht ausreichend ernähren und betreibt geheime Straflager. Gleichzeitig wird das Bild einer heilen Welt vermittelt, huldigen Staat und Einwohner Kim Il Sung, seinem Sohn und seinem Enkel wie Gottheiten. Schrill die Aufmärsche, bis zu 20 Meter hoch die Statuen, beängstigend präzise die ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1

    South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century

    Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country’s politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak Uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese resistance, a direct line is traced to the popular opposition to U.S. division of Korea after ... Read more

    7,52 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building

    South Korea and Post-Conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity. Detailing the specific case of Seoul, Hyun Kyung Lee investigates how buildings are selectively destroyed, preserved, or reconstructed in order to either establish or ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Kim Jong Un: The Hidden Revolution. Inside the Mind and Strategy of North Korea’s Modern Leader

    Kim Jong Un: The Hidden Revolution is a bold and revelatory portrait of one of the world's most misunderstood leaders. Moving beyond caricature and propaganda, this book traces the deep roots of North Korea's identity — from its colonial trauma to the rise of a modern state built on endurance, discipline, and absolute sovereignty.Through a fusion of history, political psychology, and geopolitical ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Los Conquistadores: El origen heróico de América

    La epopeya de la exploración americana se narra aquí no solo como una serie de batallas, sino como el nacimiento de una nueva estirpe heróica. Con una prosa vibrante, se retrata la ambición y el sacrificio de aquellos que cruzaron océanos para forjar un imperio entre lo desconocido y lo salvaje. Es un relato sobre la voluntad humana desafiando la geografía y el tiempo para dejar una huella ... Read more

    1,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prisoner

    A Memoir

    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to ... Read more

    13,24 €