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  • 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

  • Nothing to Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

    Real Lives In North Korea

    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

    ₹1,116.39

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

    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

    ₹2,909.16

  • The Park Chung Hee Era

    The Transformation of South Korea

    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

    ₹2,728.15

  • A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600

    The Writings of Kang Hang

    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

    ₹2,909.16

  • Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea

    In 1871, five ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet headed into Korean waters, intent on establishing relations with Korea, a country that had shunned the outside world for centuries. However, as the country had been in conflict with Western countries just five years earlier, it was going to be no easy task but one full of dangers.The Koreans, who were steadfast and unwilling to compromise the ... Read more

    ₹1,476.61

  • 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

  • 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 harrowing ... 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

    ₹609.22

  • The Return Journeys of Koryo Saram

    Tracing Roots and Routes

    by Jinhye Lee ...
    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This book offers a critical examination of the migration and settlement of Koreans in the former Soviet region, situating the Koryo Saram within the broader context of the Korean diaspora.Tracing their complex history from Imperial Russia through the Soviet era and into the present, Jinhye Lee investigates how policies of assimilation, socio-political transformations, and shifting geopolitical ... Read more

    ₹7,332.86

  • City of Sediments

    A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism

    by Se-Mi Oh ...
    Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897–1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital. Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of "erasure"—monumental ... Read more

    ₹2,546.31

  • Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010

    Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia

    Four hundred years ago, indigenous peoples occupied the vast region that today encompasses Korea, Manchuria, the Mongolian Plateau, and Eastern Siberia. Over time, these populations struggled to maintain autonomy as Russia, China, and Japan sought hegemony over the region. Especially from the turn of the twentieth century onward, indigenous peoples pursued self-determination in a number of ways, ... Read more

    ₹15,913.35

  • MacArthur's Korean War Generals

    Series series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book AwardWedged chronologically between World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War—which began with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in June of 1950—possessed neither the virtuous triumphalism of the former nor the tragic pathos of the latter. Most Americans supported defending South Korea, but there was considerable controversy during the war as to ... Read more

    ₹2,588.67

  • Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War

    Food in Twentieth-Century Korea

    One peninsula, two uniquely contrasting sovereign states; Korea’s role in modern world history has been disproportionately large relative to the size of its territory and population. In the twentieth century it experienced colonial rule and military occupations, played a significant role in the Cold War and underwent the split into North and South that continues to define it today. Cuisine, ... Read more

    ₹3,845.37

  • The Promised Republic

    Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961–1979

    by Russell Burge ...
    Series Book 484 - Harvard East Asian Monographs
    In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea’s rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul’s shantytowns, Burge historicizes national development as a site of struggle with the urban poor at its center. What would a society of postcolonial abundance look like? Who was this society built for, and how ... Read more

    ₹4,088.22

  • Hanyo (The Housemaid)

    by Youngmin Choe ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy… The director Kim Ko-young played a formative part in South Korean cinema's “Golden Age” of the 1960s and 1970s; his 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Housemaid), rescued and restored after almost being lost ... Read more

    ₹719.00

  • A New Middle Kingdom

    Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)

    by J. P. Park ...
    Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chosŏn dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance, in which prosperity manifested itself in new programs and styles of visual art. A New Middle Kingdom questions this belief, claiming instead ... Read more

    ₹5,911.08

  • Korean War - Allied Surge

    Pyongyang Falls, UN Sweep to the Yalu, October 1950

    Series series Cold War 1945–1991
    Cold War crescendo: in the author’s first three volumes in a series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean forces cross the 38th Parallel, rolling back US and South Korean forces into a small corner of the Korean peninsula. Months later, commander of the United Nations Command (UNC) in Korea, General Douglas MacArthur, launches a daring counteroffensive invasion at Inchon, enveloping North ... Read more

    ₹693.83 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Will to Win

    American Military Advisors in Korea, 1946–1953

    One of America’s early attempts at nation building - US military advisors' shaping of the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) from 1946 until 1953.Gibby describes ROKA’s structure, mission, challenges, and successes, thereby linking the South Korean army and their US advisors to the traditional narrative of this “forgotten war.” The work also demonstrates the difficulties inherent in national ... Read more

    ₹3,178.91

  • Korea's Fight for Freedom Part 2 (Illustrated)

    by F.A. Mckenzie ...
    Series Book 2 - Korea's Fight for Freedom (Illustrated)
    The tragedy of the Jews during the Second World War is well-known to the world, but you don’t know much about the torture that Koreans suffered during the same period. You will never imagine it without reading this book.Korea was under Japanese colonial rule for 35 years. (1910 ~ 1945) Japan annexed Korea by threatening with her military power. They treated Koreans as slavery. They had ninjas ... Read more

    ₹339.88

  • 中國娼妓史

    by 王書奴 ...
    Series Book 57 - 讀歷史
    《中國娼妓史》是研究中國娼妓問題的開山之作,至今仍有重大的學術價值。其原因在於作者吸收社會科學的新思想,將娼妓從社會史的視角加以研究。  作者把娼妓史分為五個階段:巫娼時代(殷商)、奴隸娼妓與官娼發生時代(先秦兩漢)、家妓及奴隸娼妓駢進時代(魏晉南北朝)、官妓鼎盛時代(隋至明代)、私人經營娼妓時代(清以降)。而不以朝代為界限,是視野更寬廣更別出心裁地的分期,展示各個階段發展的特色。  作者重視各個娼妓時代的歷史成因,廣泛地從政治、文化、社會和經濟等多層面地探討,為後來研究者指示了明確的方向。例如「唐代進士與娼妓」、「唐代娼妓與詩」、「宋代娼妓與詞」、「元代娼妓與曲」等,開了日後文史界在研究「青樓文學」這一熱門話題,奠下紮實的基礎,作者開山之功,實不可沒。  本書博稽史傳,甚至各種不易見的類書、筆記小說、札記,引證詳贍;方法近於「以詩證史」,從此可見不同時代人民的生活、禮俗、信仰與心態 ... Read more

    ₹518.20 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Almas Entrelaçadas:

    Elena Moreau, uma jovem veterinária brasileira, nunca imaginou que seu coração pudesse cruzar continentes — até conhecer Min Ryu Seok, um poderoso empresário sul-coreano. Entre tradições, segredos do passado e vidas que parecem se repetir, eles descobrirão que algumas almas estão destinadas a se encontrar. Um romance intenso e arrebatador sobre amor, destino e a coragem de seguir o coração, mesmo ... Read more

    ₹559.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Частная жизнь корейской знати. Запреты, положение женщин, быт и идеалы эпохи Чосон

    Series series Страшно интересно
    Увлекательный путеводитель по жизни Кореи эпохи династии Чосон. Автор предлагает взглянуть на прошлое не через дорамы и исторические сериалы, а через аутентичные исторические источники — главным образом традиционную корейскую живопись. За пять веков существования государства Чосон (1392–1897) создано множество свитков, ширм и альбомов, отражающих быт, костюмы, вкусы и мировоззрение людей той эпохи ... Read more

    ₹619.00 or Free with Kobo Plus