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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 54.59

  • 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

  • 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' Guardian**San 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 Korea ... Read more

    RM 61.09

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sovereignty Experiments

    Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the ... Read more

    RM 151.69

  • She Is Mine

    A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival

    Her father was an American serviceman, her mother a young Korean woman confused by the ravages of war. Abandoned at age four, nameless, homeless, and utterly alone, this child roamed the bleak, war-ravaged countryside of South Korea for three years and was finally left for dead. But The Creator had other plans and revealed them through the words, "She Is Mine." ... Read more

    RM 34.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Masks That Cannot Die

    by Jack Han ...
    Seoul, 1946. Liberation has come, but the wounds remain. In the ruins of a teahouse near Jongno, a troupe of talchum performers gathers around a sacred mask—cracked during a Japanese police raid, half-burned, blackened with soot. For years, they survived by burying their art, whispering forbidden songs, and dancing in secret. Now, in the uncertain days after occupation, they must decide: is it ... Read more

    RM 32.49

  • Forgotten Heroes

    An American Soldier's Journey from Korea Through the Cold War

    When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth century, he had a very personal mission in mind. He needed to confront his demons. Smith and his twin brother, Fred, encountered some of the bloodiest combat in the Korean War as ri emen with the Seventh Infantry Division of the US Army.In Forgotten ... Read more

    RM 15.64

  • 韩国研究论丛(2019年第2辑/总第38辑)

    《韩国研究论丛》为复旦大学韩国研究中心主办的学术集刊,创刊于1995年,一直秉承“前沿、首创、权威”的宗旨,致力于朝鲜半岛问题研究,发表文章涉及朝鲜半岛问题研究的各个领域。全书设有政治、外交与安全;历史、哲学与文化;社会、经济与管理三个专题。 ... Read more

    RM 75.70 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deconstructing A Dictator: The Kim Dynasty

    by Reid Callahan ...
    Three generations. One bloodline. A nation of twenty-five million held hostage by a family business where the only product is absolute power. This is the tale of North Korea's ruling Kim family.The official story says the family's patriarch, Kin Il-Sung, was born on a sacred mountain beneath a double rainbow, a guerrilla god who single-handedly drove the Japanese from Korean soil. The truth is ... Read more

    RM 39.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sister

    North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World

    by Sung-Yoon Lee ...
    This first book on Kim Jong Un’s increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea’s secretive and murderous dynasty.The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as their murderous ... Read more

    RM 61.09

  • 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 282.29

  • The Films of Bong Joon Ho

    by Nam Lee ...
    Series series Global Film Directors
    Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English ... Read more

    RM 84.59

  • Burnt by the Sun

    The Koreans of the Russian Far East

    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Author Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic and maligned nationality (ethnic community) during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. He argues that Tsarist ... Read more

    RM 282.29

  • South Korea's Education Exodus

    The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad

    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the book considers the complex motivations that spur families of pre-college youth to embark on ... Read more

    RM 158.79

  • 김일성 1912~1945: 상권 성장과 시련

    by 유순호 ...
    Series Book 1 - 김일성 1912~1945
    국내 최초로 시도된 김일성 논픽션 다큐멘터리(1912~1945년)항일연군 생존자 및 관련자 200여 명 인터뷰 자료 수록김일성을 중심으로 서술한 만주 항일무장투쟁의 정사(正史)와 비사(?史), 야사(野史)의 종합판『김일성 1912~1945』는 1912년 출생부터 1945년 평양으로 귀향하기까지 김일성의 33년 동안의 행적을 1930~40년대 만주 무장 항일투쟁을 중심으로 집중 조명한 책이다. 저자는 1982년부터 20여 년 가까이 동북 3성의 항일투쟁 관련 지역 전체를 도보로 답사하며 자료를 수집하고, 항일연군 생존자 및 관련자 200여 명을 직접 취재했으며, 중국 정부의 기록보관소인 중앙당안관에 소장된 자료와 중국, 미국, 일본, 러시아 및 중화민국 등의 원시자료를 참고하여 1930~1940년대의 만주 ... Read more

    RM 74.45

  • Rewriting Revolution

    Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

    by Immanuel Kim ...
    North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a “rogue” nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering ... Read more

    RM 254.09

  • Buddhist Bells and Dragons

    Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan

    Buddhist Bells and Dragons: Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan recovers the essential but unrecognized roles of Buddhist temple bells in the history of art, religious studies, and the history of interregional and international relations with Japan. Specifically attending to the agency of bronze bells made as early as the seventh century, the chapters address how bells function as ... Read more

    RM 93.09

  • Korean Cuisine

    An llustrated History

    The spicy tang of kimchi, the richness of Korean barbecue, the hearty flavours of bibimbap: Korean cuisine is savoured the world over for its diversity of ingredients and flavours. Michael J. Pettid offers here an illustrated historical account of Korean food and its intricate relationship with the nation’s culture.Over the last twelve centuries, Korean food dishes and their complex preparations ... Read more

    RM 98.79

  • Remaking the Chinese Empire

    Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911

    Remaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish, legitimize, and consolidate its identity as the civilized center of ... Read more

    RM 107.99

  • International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945

    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of exploitation or development that took place domestically, while international aspects have been relatively neglected. Colonial discourse, such as characterization of Korea as a “hermit nation,” was promulgated around the world by Japan and haunts us today. The colonization of Korea also transformed ... Read more

    RM 158.79

  • Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea

    by Gi-Wook Shin ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements. Gi-Wook Shin examines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with ... Read more

    RM 123.49