Many have viewed the tribute system as China's tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia's past was not as Sinocentric as conventional wisdom suggests. Instead, throughout the early modern period, Chinese hegemony was accepted, defied, and challenged by its East Asian neighbors at different times, dependin...

This is a fiction about a lonely doctor named Vincent Jedidiah. If you delight in learning English, this book will give you the joy of exploring vocabulary and useful expressions while you read.

The Sky is Where My Heart Is is a biography of the first woman pilot in the Republic of Korea named Kim, Kyung O (Kim for short in the story), who is mother of the book’s author Jean Jiyoung Lee’s. This real life story for 3rd through 6th graders follows a quiet but brave little girl born to a poor rural family. As a child, Kim had no toys to play with, but there was one thing that made her mind busy with all the imagination and dreams: the sky. Rain or shine, in peace or at war, at home o...

Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Tr...

Der Weltbestseller aus Korea – über 2 Millionen verkaufte Exemplare weltweit.Cho Nam-Joo hat mit ihrem Roman einen internationalen Bestseller geschrieben. Ihre minimalistische und doch messerscharfe Prosa hat nicht nur viele Leserinnen weltweit begeistert, sondern auch Massenproteste in Korea ausgelöst. In einer kleinen Wohnung am Rande der Metropole Seoul lebt Kim Jiyoung. Die Mittdreißigerin hat erst kürzlich ihren Job aufgegeben, um sich um ihr Baby zu kümmern – wie es von korean...

K-Drama star Lee Joon-gi teams up with Language Learning Experts to bring you this all-in-one guide for beginners who want to learn Korean as it's actually spoken in Seoul today!Korean is one of the fastest-growing second languages in the world, due to the huge popularity of Korean pop music, food and K-dramas. This book is designed to meet the needs of people who want to learn the language quickly and accurately—especially Korean pop culture fans!It featur...

Learn Korean as it's actually spoken today in Seoul!Korean is one of the fastest-growing second languages in the world, due to the huge popularity of K-pop music, Korean food and K-dramas. This book picks up where the first volume ends, and is designed for people who want to learn to speak Korean quickly and correctly—especially K-Pop and K-Drama fans!Hello Korean features colorful drawings and a cast of young foreigners who are living in Seoul, ha...

This book is a collection of essays written by Korean political theorists addressing the study of contemporary Korean political thought on the premise that such study should be carried out with a post-Eurocentric approach. The negative effects brought about by the domination of Western-centrism are pervasive in academic disciplines as well as in everyday life of South Korea. This book outlines three strategic approaches to combating Western-centrism: (1) theorizing contemporary Korean poli...

This bioethics handbook offers concise, up-to-date, and easy to read chapters on a broad range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and the environment.The volume provides a snapshot of current bioethics, taking into account current affairs and emerging new topics. Each chapter acknowledges and critically breaks down the historical developments of t...

This book examines the changing characteristics of Korean society and Koreans in various areas, including politics, economics, and society, providing rich analyses on social identity. Factoring in the trajectory of Korean history, the authors chart the rapid economic growth of Korea and the ways in which this has significantly improved Koreans' material living standards. The book shows that despite the Cold War and inter-Korean confrontation, active citizen participation has institutionali...

The picture book , which uses folktales transmitted by mouth as a motif and uses them as motifs, delicately deals with the problem of identity that occurs during the child’s growth process.

The 2017 National Gold IPPY Award Winner for Children's Picture Books (All Ages).Felix and Maurice Efil, twin brothers, lived in Nowhereville. Everybody knew them, but nobody knew how long they’d been around. It seemed like forever. Felix owned a small watch shop. And Maurice owned the mortuary next door...So, the timeless story starts...that of an unlikely friendship, a mother's heartbreaking love and a magical watch shop. Let your heart be touched by this...