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  • 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

    R221,02

  • Without You, There Is No Us

    My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

    by Suki Kim ...
    It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.Life at the university ... Read more

    R313,13

  • 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

    R338,89

  • History of Korea

    A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War

    by Captivating History ...
    If you want to discover the captivating history of Korea, then keep reading...The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands. Of all those malicious and greedy potential ... Read more

    R59,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coldest Winter

    by David Halberstam ...
    Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly ... Read more

    R190,54

  • 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

    R294,85

  • The Korean War: History in an Hour

    by Andrew Mulholland ...
    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

    R52,08 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    by Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti ...
    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

    R161,33

  • Impeaching the Impeachment

    Justice for President Park Geun-Hye

    by Peter Pyungwoo Kim ...
    Park Geun-hye was truly a political phenomenon. She was elected democratically, twice chosen as the leader of her party, and served in the South Korean legislature for over fourteen years. Her countrymen dubbed her the “Queen of Elections” for her successful leadership in winning her own elections and steering her party to great electoral victories. Yet in 2016–2017, she was impeached and ... Read more

    R63,12

  • Five Broken Blades

    Discover the Sunday Times bestselling adventure fantasy filled with assassins, betrayal and magic

    by Mai Corland ...
    Series Book 1 - The Broken Blades
    FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VERITY GUILDFive ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Six of Crows meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop inspired by Korean myth and legend'This dazzling fantasy has it all: a richly developed world, a captivating ensemble cast, and a twisty, action-packed quest' KAREN ... Read more

    R108,32

  • Sovereignty Experiments

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

    by Alyssa M. Park ...
    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

    R660,55

  • She Is Mine

    A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival

    by Stephanie Fast ...
    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

    R146,04 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

    R120,97

  • Forgotten Heroes

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

    by Edward Lee Smith ...
    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

    R65,65

  • 韩国研究论丛（2019年第2辑/总第38辑）

    by 复旦大学韩国研究中心 ...
    《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

    R352,67 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

    R182,47 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Family of No Prominence

    The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea

    by Eugene Y. Park ...
    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

    R1 169,08

  • 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

    R437,68

  • Burnt by the Sun

    The Koreans of the Russian Far East

    by Jon K. Chang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson ...
    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

    R1 169,08

  • South Korea's Education Exodus

    The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad

    Edited by Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Sumie Okazaki ...
    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

    R657,56

  • 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

    R346,86

  • 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

    R1 052,12

  • Buddhist Bells and Dragons

    Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan

    by Sherry D. Fowler ...
    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

    R365,23

  • Korean Cuisine

    An llustrated History

    by Michael Pettid ...
    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

    R476,89