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  • 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

    RM 35.49

  • 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

    RM 54.59

  • 5.18光州!光州!——決定韓國命運,光州民主化運動全記錄

    Gwangju uprising: the rebellion for democracy in South Korea

    Series series matchstick
    ★★光州民主化運動45周年紀念★★★★台灣第一本光州運動專書★★●何謂「國家」?走過戒嚴大哉問!——八○年代亞洲國家民主化運動浪潮先鋒!光州事件是認識現代韓國的關鍵,後續處理更為轉型正義的研究樹立重要典範●以倖存者視角描述事件始末!——韓國政府進行真相調查時第一手引用來源!從禁書到地下暢銷書,首部代表人民心聲、全面記錄光州民主化運動過程專書★榮獲——2017年韓國「萬海文學獎」特別獎★韓文版作者——黃皙暎,韓國最具代表性國民作家,戒嚴年代親身犯險★台灣版專業審訂——朱立熙教授,韓國史、光州事件研究權威===============================時至今日,本書不再只是一本血與淚的記錄,而是一個朝向正義與和平社會的里程碑。──黃晳暎(韓國最具代表性國民作家)1979年10月26日,長期實行獨裁的韓國總統朴正熙無預警地遭心腹槍殺,國家陷入權力真... ... Read more

    Was RM 59.48 Now RM 50.60

  • The Korean War: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies ... Read more

    RM 12.42 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violets

    From the bestselling author of Please Look After Mother

    Translated by Jung Bum Hur ...
    'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha'Strange and gripping' GuardianSan is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city centre.Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life - painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Kor... ... Read more

    RM 61.09

  • Togani

    Series series Modern Korean Fiction
    Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky centers of power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (The Crucible), published in Korean in 2009, is based on a historic case of child sexual abuse at a state-run ... Read more

    RM 81.99

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 1 (Illustrated)

    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

    RM 11.72

  • 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

    RM 32.49

  • Il dissidio e l’avanzata bellica: la guerra di Corea

    by Daniele Zumbo ...
    La guerra di Corea è stato un terribile evento bellico svoltosi nella penisola coreana dal 1950 al 1953.Più precisamente, è stata una parte della guerra fredda nella quale, alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale si contrapposero due blocchi internazionali, da un lato l’occidente con l’America e paesi alleati e dall’altro l’oriente, con l’Unione Sovietica e gli alleati. Tale tensione, durata circa ... Read more

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Defections

    'Stunning' The Times'Excellent' Independent on Sunday'Compelling, haunting and thrilling' David PeaceSeoul, South KoreaMia is an outsider. Half-English, half-Korean, a translator at the British Embassy; she treads a boundary between her roots and the acceptance she desires from the English - especially her boss, Thomas: a married diplomat.Thomas's career is j... ... Read more

    RM 38.79

  • España y América

    Una profunda reflexión sobre los lazos históricos, culturales y espirituales que unen de manera indisoluble a dos continentes. Analiza las complejidades de un legado compartido y las fricciones de una relación que moldeó el mundo moderno. Un ensayo esclarecedor sobre la identidad transatlántica y el impacto imborrable de los imperios en declive. ... Read more

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nuremberg Trials (Vol.9)

    The Nuremberg Trials (Vol.9) by the International Military Tribunal is a comprehensive examination of the historic trials held after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. The book meticulously details the legal proceedings, evidence presented, and the verdicts handed down, providing a deep insight into this pivotal moment in international law and human rights. The writing is precise ... Read more

    RM 7.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 90 Dias Para Amar

    Em noventa dias, tudo pode mudar — um amor pode nascer, florescer ou desmoronar. Quando o destino une duas almas em um casamento de conveniência, o que parecia um simples acordo torna-se uma jornada intensa de descobertas, segredos e redenção. Entre promessas quebradas e beijos que desafiam a razão, o coração precisa escolher: manter as aparências ou arriscar tudo por um sentimento real. ... Read more

    RM 27.41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living on Your Own

    Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

    by Jesook Song ...
    An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women's difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the women's ... Read more

    RM 126.89

  • Korea

    A History

    While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its recorded history of some two millennia remains unfamiliar to most. Korea: A History addresses general readers, providing an up-to-date, accessible overview of Korean history from antiquity to the present. Eugene Y. Park draws on original-language sources ... Read more

    RM 112.59

  • Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (3)

    The Republic of Korea Army and the United Nations Command

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 571 - Men-at-Arms
    This book describes and illustrates the ground forces of the Republic of Korea and its United Nations allies during the Korean War, as well as the UN medical contingents in the conflict.The North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in June 1950 prompted an enormous international response, as first the United States and then a host of allied countries contributed combat troops or medical ... Read more

    RM 59.59

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  • 알기 쉽게 읽는 우리 역사상식 100 호암 문일평의 사화백제

    이 책은 우리나라의 역사 중에서 사람들이 꼭 좀 알아야 할 100가지 주제를 선별하여 알기 쉽게 풀이한 재미있는 책이다. 호암 문일평이 연재했던 것을 호암 문일평이 죽은 뒤에 대한금융조합연합회에서 엮은 책이다. 그 당시의 일반 사람들의 수준에 맞춰서 최대한 쉽고 재미있게 쓰려고 노력한 흔적이 보인다. 그리고 그 내용은 지금의 사람들이 읽어도 되는 우리나라 역사의 내용들이다. ... Read more

    RM 13.33

  • Histoire de l’Église de Corée

    ( Edition intégrale ) Tome I - annoté

    Series series Oeuvres de Charles Dallet
    L’Église de Dieu ne connaît ni défaillance ni déclin. Établie pour rendre témoignage à la vérité, pour enseigner tontes les nations, elle remplit toujours et partout ce double devoir, malgré tous les obstacles, en face de toutes les tyrannies, et il n’existe pas de pays si soigneusement fermé qu’elle n’y ait pénétré, pas de peuple si isolé, si séquestré de tous rapports avec les autres peuples, qu ... Read more

    RM 4.61 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 韩国研究论丛(2021年第2辑/总第42辑)

    本书为集刊,连续性出版物,自2012年起在我社出版,每年两辑。本集刊为我社优秀集刊,CSSCI来源集刊。主要邀请国内外学者对韩国的政治、经济、外交、文化等多个方面进行研究。 大致分为以下几大栏目:政治、外交与安全;历史、哲学与文化。本辑论丛文章主题主要涉及日韩北极战略、韩日海军战略、韩国对日政策逻辑、 疫情冲击下的朝鲜半岛局势、文在寅政府东南亚外交的新动向、精英冲突与发展型国家的兴衰, 俄馆播迁后俄罗斯对半岛外交政策失败的原因、清朝贡体制的变动与中韩关系的转型、17世纪朝鲜野谭集《於于野谭》中的中国形象、朝鲜壬辰战争文学中的浙江想象、盘索里的文化品格,以及韩国资产证券化信托功能监管、 韩国审前羁押审查制度、赴韩中文教师韩语能力培养、中韩教育合作、国学前新课程改革等。 ... Read more

    RM 78.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean War in World History

    Edited by William Stueck ...
    The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck's introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war ... Read more

    RM 112.59

  • Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan

    East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond. Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen. They brought things to the Korean peninsula and they took things away. The economic and demographic structures of Kyongsang Province had deep and ... Read more

    RM 305.77

  • Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

    Spectacle, Politics and History

    by Hong Kal ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban ... Read more

    RM 305.77

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 2 (Illustrated)

    Series Book 2 - 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 now ... Read more

    RM 11.72

  • William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea

    At the Deathbed of Empire, 1896–1904

    After graduation from Georgetown University in 1896, William Franklin Sands joined the US diplomatic corps as second secretary in Tokyo. His year there sparked his interest in East Asia, so when a position in Korea opened, he took it, with the help of his influential father, an admiral in the US navy. For two years he served under US Minister Horace Allen until a more powerful position opened as ... Read more

    RM 292.49