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  • 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 54.49

  • A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail

    Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a ... Read more

    RM 74.49

  • 草:活著的歷史,韓國「慰安婦」受害奶奶的證詞

    풀 / Grass

    by 金錦淑 ...
    Translated by 徐小為 ...
    Series series GRAPHIC
    《紐約時報》、《衛報》年度最佳圖像小說入選多家媒體的年度最佳圖像小說榮獲漫畫界奧斯卡的哈維國際圖書獎、克勞斯散文獎、卡通工作室獎年度最佳紙本漫畫獎及Big Other圖書獎不管風吹雨打、如何踩踏,草總能再次茁壯《草》為韓國重量級插畫家金錦淑最備受讚譽的一部非虛構圖像作品,已被視為非虛構圖像的經典傑作。全書以金錦淑與韓國「慰安婦」倖存者李玉善奶奶的深度訪談為基礎,以圖像述說奶奶充滿刼難、命途多舛的一生,創作出一部極具震撼力的反戰圖像小說,對韓國女性在二戰期間成為「慰安婦」這段二十世紀的歷史,提出強烈控訴,也是少數詳細記錄女性戰爭倖存者經歷的紀實作品。然而本書並不只是追究戰爭責任,也不是只有對侵略國家日本的仇恨視角,作者要敘述的是李玉善奶奶作為一名韓國女性的整個生命面貌。從李玉善奶奶的童年開始,透過孩童脆弱的視角展現戰爭爆發前的種種徵兆,細緻描繪韓國平民在日本占領時期的貧困與各種苦難 ... Read more

    RM 54.76

  • 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 12.38 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    RM 59.93

  • The Birth of Korean Cool

    How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

    by Euny Hong ...
    A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUSE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYBy now, everyone in the world knows the song "Gangnam Style" and Psy, an instantly recognizable star. But the song's international popularity is no passing fad. "Gangnam Style" is only one tool in South Korea's extraordinarily elaborate and effective strategy to become a ... Read more

    RM 42.89

  • 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 61.99

  • 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 36.09

  • 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 83.09

  • Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887

    Series series Empires in Perspective
    In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed close to war over Afghanistan, and taking the islands, with their sheltered anchorage, would deny them ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • Safe Space

    Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence

    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have ... Read more

    RM 85.79

  • American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity, 1884-1965

    by William Yoo ...
    Series series Perspectives on Modern America
    This book examines the partnerships and power struggles between American missionaries and Korean Protestant leaders in both nations from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War. Yoo analyzes American and Korean sources, including a plethora of unpublished archival materials, to uncover the complicated histories of cooperation and contestation behind the evolving relationships ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • 平和憲法をめぐる理想と現実

    理論と実践をめぐる問題は、今日まで、国際政治において、きわめて重要な問題のひとつであった。理論を探求するものからすれば、現実の実務家(Practioners)は、あまりにも俗物的であり、愚かに見えるのに対し、現実に対処する実務家の立場から、学者(Sholars)はあまりにも、観念的であり、無責任にみえる。したがって、往々にして、双方が相手を非難、批判する傾向がつよかった。戦後日本の政治において、このことが、端的にあらわれたのが、戦後日本の総理大臣をつとめた吉田茂と、東京大学総長の南原繁の対立であった。この対立は、単に二人の、個人的次元の対立にとどまらず、その後の日本の進路において、きわめて大きな影響をもたらした。 ... Read more

    RM 4.57 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently frame the art history of East Asia. This pioneering study proposes an important new framework that focuses on the relationship between China, Japan, and Korea. By reconsidering existing concepts of ‘East ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • Francisco Pizarro, der Eroberer von Peru (Romanbiografie) (Kommentiert)

    Erweiterte Ausgabe. Nach den alten Quellen erzählt von Arthur Schurig

    Arthur Schurigs Romanbiografie Francisco Pizarro, der Eroberer von Peru entfaltet die gewaltsame Begegnung zwischen spanischem Expansionsdrang und der hochentwickelten Welt der Inka als historisch erzählte Charakterstudie. Das Buch verbindet quellennahe Darstellung mit erzählerischer Verdichtung: politische Intrige, militärisches Kalkül, religiöse Rechtfertigungsformeln und persönliche Hybris ... Read more

    RM 3.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly understood origins of its system of government. He examines the genesis of the Democratic People's ... Read more

    RM 101.99

  • Korean Diaspora across the World

    Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality

    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This edited volume brings together a wide-ranging account of the Korean diaspora, focusing on how “homeland” is understood, invoked, and performed in everyday life and public culture.Spanning sites from Sakhalin and Japan to Chile, Kazakhstan, the United States, and Latin America, the contributors show how diasporic Koreans express belonging through family narratives, community life, and media, ... Read more

    RM 146.49

  • South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

    The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans a minimum standard of living, it prioritized assisting those citizens perceived as embodying the ... Read more

    RM 91.49

  • Spirit Power

    Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country’s indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into ... Read more

    RM 125.29

  • The Korean Paekjong Under Japanese Rule

    The Quest for Equality and Human Rights

    Traditional Korean society was characterized by a rigid hierarchy. The minority Paekjong were the lowest group of the lowest rank of the shinbun class system, and were treated as outcasts throughout the Choson period (1392-1910). This book deals with their historical and social background, and their struggle for human rights and equality in colonial Korea through the activities of the Hyongpyongsa ... Read more

    RM 274.36

  • Against the Chains of Utility

    Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea

    by Serk-Bae Suh ...
    The 1970s and 1980s were pivotal decades in South Korea, marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. The language of sacrifice was constantly employed by the developmental state to justify its exploitation of workers and violation of countless civil rights as necessary for the nation’s economic growth and security. As a counter to this prevailing rhetoric, a rich variety of literary texts ... Read more

    RM 105.79

  • 韓國民族文化性格探究:了解韓國的歷史、民主、社會文化等多方面的特色和發展

    by 宋擎擎 ...
    本書將帶領讀者深入了解韓國的歷史、民主、社會文化等多方面的特色和發展。一、無窮花的國度:韓國的國家象徵與民族精神韓國以其國花無窮花象徵國家的永恆與繁榮。從《愛國歌》中透露的民族精神,到太極旗中五行的哲學思想,這些象徵深深植根於韓國人的日常生活和國家意識中。二、五千年的文明光芒:韓國的歷史文化韓國的歷史文化源遠流長,從古代神話到現代的國家劃界,每一個階段都體現了其文化的深度和複雜性。特別是韓國的民主文化,從李承晚到朴正熙,這一段艱難的歷史展示了韓國在劇烈變革中追求民主自由的不懈努力。三、身土不二:韓國的民族情懷身土不二是韓國人的一種生活哲學,意指身體和土地不分離,這一觀念在韓國文化中極為重要。從泡菜的製作到漢江的奇蹟,這些文化特色都體現了韓國人與土地的深厚連結。四、圈內人與圈外人:韓國的社會結構韓國社會強調內圈和外圈的概念,這影響了社交、職場乃至日常生活。本書透過詳細的社會觀察 ... Read more

    RM 35.25

  • A Family of No Prominence

    The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea

    Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite family, that of Pak Tŏkhwa and his descendants (which includes the author). Spanning the early modern ... Read more

    RM 286.39

  • Cultures of Yusin

    South Korea in the 1970s

    by Youngju Ryu ...
    Series series Perspectives On Contemporary Korea
    Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative years of Park Chung Hee’s rule in South Korea, focusing on the so-called Yusin era (1972–79). Beginning with the constitutional change that granted dictatorial powers to the president and ending with his assassination, Yusin was a period of extreme political repression coupled with widespread mobilization of the citizenry towards ... Read more

    RM 100.09