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  • The Park Chung Hee Era

    The Transformation of South Korea

    by Chang Jae Baik, Jorge I. Domínguez, Yong-Sup Han, Sung Gul Hong, Paul D. Hutchcroft, Hyug Baeg Im, Byung-joon Jun, Eun Mee Kim, Hyung-A Kim, Joo Hong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Yong-Jick Kim, Jung-Hoon Lee, Min Yong Lee, Nae-Young Lee, Young Jo Lee, Seok-jin Lew, Chung-in Moon, Gregory W. Noble, Gil-Sung Park, Myung-Lim Park, Sang-young Rhyu ...
    In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited ... Read more

    ₹2,569.32

  • Patriots, Traitors and Empires

    The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom

    by Stephen Gowans ...
    Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea's current efforts to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or anybody else by ... Read more

    ₹1,708.74 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nothing to Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

    Real Lives In North Korea

    by 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 ... Read more

    ₹1,069.07

  • The Korean War

    by Max Hastings ...
    The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings’ compelling account of the forgotten war.'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' – GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower ... Read more

    ₹764.27

  • The Border - A Journey Around Russia

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Translated by 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 ... Read more

    ₹391.16

  • The Rebel and the Kingdom

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    ₹541.61

  • Four Ruined Realms

    The action-packed sequel to adventure fantasy Five Broken Blades featuring more lies, more betrayal and even more danger

    by Mai Corland ...
    Series Book 2 - The Broken Blades
    FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VERITY GUILDThe lies are bigger and the plots more treacherous when your favourite backstabbers return in the mind-blowing sequel to Mai Corland's bestselling Korean-inspired adventure fantasy, Five Broken Blades'If you've yet to discover this thrilling multi-POV fantasy series, you're missing out' CULTUREFLYThe King of Yusan may b... ... Read more

    ₹583.38

  • The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

    by JaHyun Kim Haboush ...
    The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but ... Read more

    ₹2,739.71

  • North Korea

    State of Paranoia

    by Paul French ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the ... Read more

    ₹809.11

  • A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600

    The Writings of Kang Hang

    Edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush, Kenneth Robinson ...
    Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting in effect as a spy for his king. Arranged and printed in the seventeenth century as Kanyangnok, or The Record of a Shepherd, Kang's writings were ... Read more

    ₹2,739.71

  • Defiant Failed State

    by Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. ...
    Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at Angelo State University. Because North Korea appears economically weak and politically unstable, it is therefore often categorized as a state on the brink of collapse, or a failed state. But Bechtol makes a convincing ... Read more

    ₹3,206.21

  • Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea

    by Jung Lee ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonisation from 1910 to 1945.The shared aim of botanists who encountered one another in colonial Korea to practise “modern Western botany” is successfully revealed through analysis of their fieldwork and subsequent publications. By exploring the ... Read more

    ₹6,636.15

  • Elusive Belonging

    Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea

    by Minjeong Kim ...
    Elusive Belonging examines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Marriage migration—crossing national borders for marriage—has attracted significant public and scholarly attention, especially in new destination countries, which grapple with how to integrate marriage migrants and their children and what that integration means for citizenship boundaries ... Read more

    ₹6,166.20

  • The Master from Mountains and Fields

    Prose Writings of Hwadam, Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk

    Translated by Dr. Isabelle Sancho ...
    by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...
    Series series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
    The Master from Mountains and Fields is a fully annotated translation of the prose texts from the “collected works” of Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk (1489–1546), an influential Confucian scholar from the early Chosŏn period (1392-1910). A native of Songdo (also known as Kaesŏng) in present-day North Korea, Sŏ has loomed large in the Korean cultural imagination and appeared as an exceptional sage and popular hero in ... Read more

    ₹2,141.10

  • New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism

    Institution, Gender, and Secular Society

    Edited by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim, Jin Y. Park ...
    Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism moves beyond nationalistic, modernist, and ethnocentric historiographies of modern Korean Buddhism by carefully examining individuals' lived experiences, the institutional dimensions of Korean Buddhism, and its place in ... Read more

    ₹3,335.73

  • Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism

    The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn

    Translated by Richard D. McBride, II ...
    by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...
    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

    ₹2,140.27

  • A Life of Battles to free her Generations

    by Llianne Rocheleau ...
    A Life of Battles to free her Generations is written by Llianne Rocheleau This book is written in honor of my mother.A girl who is forced to leave her home to begin her journey from Wonsan North Korea to the DMZ Border, from where she escapes this journey approximately 350 miles away from where she used to live once upon a time. She struggled each year, month, and day, she lived, witnessed, and ... Read more

    ₹886.39

  • Confucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea

    Yu Hyŏngwŏn's Pan’gye surok (Volume IV)

    Edited by Woosung Bae ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    Pan’gye surok (or "Pan’gye’s Random Jottings") was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society. It was recognised as a leading work of political science by Yu’s contemporaries and continues to be a key text in understanding the intellectual culture of the late Joseon period.Yu describes the ... Read more

    ₹6,636.15

  • Our Supreme Leader

    The Making of Kim Jong-un

    by Paul French ...
    Since his accession to power in 2012, Kim Jong-un has come to personify North Korea in the eyes of the outside world. An object of derision as much as fear, he has nevertheless succeeded in strengthening his grip on the country, purging potential rivals and strengthening the personality cult around himself and his predecessors. This process is set to culminate at the Seventh Congress of the Korean ... Read more

    ₹232.00

  • Korean Fairy Tales (Annotated & Illustrated)

    by William Elliot Griffis ...
    Author William Elliot Griffis was invited to Japan to organize modern schools in 1870. He worked for the Japanese education as a lecturer, minister and author. Mr Griffis was a member of the Asiatic Society of Japan and Korea of the University of Tokyo. While studying Asia, mostly Japan and Korea, he was fascinated by Korean cultures and fairy tales. This is his collection of fairy tales of Korea ... Read more

    ₹320.09

  • Korean Economic Growth, 1876 - 2022

    Openness, Institutional Change, and Learning

    by Nak Nyeon Kim ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides the first comprehensive explanation of Korea’s 150 years of economic growth, from the opening of the ports to the present, based on consistently organized long-term statistics. The book also compares Korea’s experience with that of other countries. During this period, Korea experienced major systemic transitions, from a traditional society to colonial rule, and after liberation, ... Read more

    ₹8,741.43

  • An Asian Frontier

    American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945

    by Robert Oppenheim ...
    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

    ₹5,620.33

  • Los nueve libros de la Historia

    by Heródoto ...
    Este ebook presenta "Los nueve libros de la Historia" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El libro de Heródoto tiene como objetivo narrar los enfrentamientos que tuvieron lugar entre griegos y bárbaros y, en concreto, las Guerras Médicas. También contiene una descripción de la historia y costumbres del Antiguo Egipto. Se trata de la primera obra historiográfica griega que nos ha llegado íntegra y ... Read more

    ₹179.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean Singer of Tales

    by Marshall R. Pihl ...
    Series series Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
    P'ansori, the traditional oral narrative of Korea, is sung by a highly trained soloist to the accompaniment of complex drumming. The singer both narrates the story and dramatizes all the characters, male and female. Performances require as long as six hours and make extraordinary vocal demands. In the first book-length treatment in English of this remarkable art form, Pihl traces the history of p ... Read more

    ₹2,094.25