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  • 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 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 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

    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

  • 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

  • North Korea, Iran and the Challenge to International Order

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Patrick McEachern, Jaclyn O’Brien McEachern ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations.While government officials, including a series of American presidents, strategic policy documents and outside analysts have repeatedly noted that North Korea and Iran occupy a similar challenge, the commonality has largely been left ... Read more

    ₹6,207.95

  • Confucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea

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

    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

  • Чосон. Последняя династия Кореи

    by Ён Су Пак ...
    Series series Династия
    Чосон – династия существовавшая более пяти столетий и представляет собой один из самых значительных и длительных периодов в истории Кореи. Основателем династии стал генерал Ли Сонге, который сверг династию Корё и установил новый порядок. Во времена Чосон Корея достигла значительных успехов в области культуры, науки и искусства. Кроме того, в это время развивались такие области, как живопись, ... Read more

    ₹899.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Economic Engagement in North Korea

    by Bo Gao ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China. Focusing on China’s economic participation in North Korea’s minerals and fishery industries, the author explores the role of China’s sub-state and non-state actors in implementing China’s foreign economic policy towards North Korea. The book discusses these actors’ impact on the regional order in ... Read more

    ₹5,380.79

  • The Quest for Statehood

    Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945

    by Richard S. Kim ...
    Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies. In this book, Richard S. Kim examines the central role played by immigrants in the independence movement that sought to liberate Korea from Japanese colonization. Regarding Japanese rule as illegitimate, Koreans in and out of the Korean peninsula viewed themselves as a stateless people. Their independence ... Read more

    ₹638.64

  • La guerra de Corea 1950-1953

    by Jorge Saborido, Javier Bonafina ...
    Series series Historia
    La guerra de Corea fue, probablemente junto al conflicto de Vietnam, el mayor desastre del periodo histórico conocido como la Guerra Fría. El resultado fue la devastación de un país, la división de un pueblo con un elevado nivel de homogeneidad étnica y una serie de consecuencias que siguen presentes en la actualidad y que, por lo visto, perdurarán por mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, se ha generalizado ... Read more

    ₹819.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory

    Ancient Myths and Modern Empire

    by David Weiss ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity.Susanoo inhabited ... Read more

    ₹2,522.47

  • 民初大詞人況周頤說掌故：眉廬叢話（全編本）

    by 況周頤 ...
    Series Book 48 - Do歷史
    況周頤（1859～1926），晚清詞學四大家之一。字夔笙，晚號蕙風詞隱。廣西臨桂（今桂林）人。光緒五年（1879）舉人。曾入兩江總督張之洞、端方幕府，復執教於武進龍城書院和南京師範學堂。辛亥革命後，以清遺老自居，寄跡上海，鬻文爲生。況周頤以詞爲專業，致力五十年，早年詞風輕飄、艷麗，清亡後，多寄寓其懷戀清室之意。《眉廬叢話》是況周頤晚年的著作，也是其最負盛名的掌故筆記著作。《眉廬叢話》的內容包羅萬象，舉凡中國歷代的宮廷秘聞或官場秘事，朝代之典章制度與學人風範，以及許多歷史人物的藝林趣談等等，皆在其品評記述之列。這本況周頤的著作，除了留給後世許多難得的史料蒐集外，也是這位詞人畢生所學之精華。 ... Read more

    ₹576.58 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Korean Landscape Painting

    Continuity and Innovation Through the Ages

    by Yi Song-mi ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 4Korean Landscape Painting : Continuity and Innovation Through the AgesThe narrative and illustrations of this book are generally presented by historical period, including“ The Three Kingdoms and the Unified Silla Periods,” “The Goryeo and Early Joseon Periods,” “The Mid-Joseon Period,” “The Late Joseon Period,”and “The Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century.” Through ... Read more

    ₹534.19

  • Wrongful Deaths

    Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea

    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an ... Read more

    ₹2,997.54

  • Buddhas and Ancestors

    Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea

    by Juhn Y. Ahn ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism had become so powerful and corrupt that the state had to suppress it. When newly rising ... Read more

    ₹2,997.54

  • Triangle Republics

    Cross-Border Literary Transits Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan

    by I Jonathan Kief ...
    In Korea, the end of the Second World War in 1945 brought both liberation from Japanese colonial rule and the division of the nation by the triumphant Allies. The peninsula was not only decoupled from its former colonial metropole but also carved up into two halves that were subsequently incorporated into the rival blocs of the emerging Cold War order. Although the two Koreas are typically seen as ... Read more

    ₹2,996.60

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 1 (Illustrated)

    by Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, James S. Gale ...
    Series Book 1 - Korean Folk Tales (Illustrated)
    To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. An old manuscript copy of Im Bang's stories came into the hands of the translator, and he gives them ... Read more

    ₹320.09

  • Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

    by Yong-Chool Ha, Clark W. Sorensen ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late ... Read more

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  • The Faces We Wear to Meet the Gods

    by Jack Han ...
    On an island where gods hide as refugees and the sea remembers every promise, one woman carved a face from grief and taught a nation how to dance with death. When her husband drowned in a typhoon, the Seawife Shaman Sumyeong dove for seven nights into the depths, searching for his spirit. What she found in the palace of coral changed everything—not resurrection, but transformation. The Sea Mother ... Read more

    ₹691.00