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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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

    by JaHyun Kim Haboush ...
    The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but ... Read more

    R467,46

  • North Korea

    State of Paranoia

    by Paul French ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the ... Read more

    R328,08

  • Confucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea

    Yu Hyŏngwŏn's Pan’gye surok (Volume I)

    Edited by Woosung Bae ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    Pan’gye surok (or "Pan’gye’s Random Jottings") was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society. It was recognised as a leading work of political science by Yu’s contemporaries and continues to be a key text in understanding the intellectual culture of the late Joseon period.Yu describes the ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Чосон. Последняя династия Кореи

    by Ён Су Пак ...
    Series series Династия
    Чосон – династия существовавшая более пяти столетий и представляет собой один из самых значительных и длительных периодов в истории Кореи. Основателем династии стал генерал Ли Сонге, который сверг династию Корё и установил новый порядок. Во времена Чосон Корея достигла значительных успехов в области культуры, науки и искусства. Кроме того, в это время развивались такие области, как живопись, ... Read more

    R199,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Economic Engagement in North Korea

    by Bo Gao ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China. Focusing on China’s economic participation in North Korea’s minerals and fishery industries, the author explores the role of China’s sub-state and non-state actors in implementing China’s foreign economic policy towards North Korea. The book discusses these actors’ impact on the regional order in ... Read more

    R1 388,84

  • The Quest for Statehood

    Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945

    by Richard S. Kim ...
    Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies. In this book, Richard S. Kim examines the central role played by immigrants in the independence movement that sought to liberate Korea from Japanese colonization. Regarding Japanese rule as illegitimate, Koreans in and out of the Korean peninsula viewed themselves as a stateless people. Their independence ... Read more

    R409,04

  • Stop North Korea!

    A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff

    by Shepherd Iverson ...
    This radical new approach to dealing with North Korea offers a refreshing perspective on an intransigent and deadly situation.Imagine you control a multi-billion dollar capital fund, and North Korea is an underperforming corporation. You see it is undervalued and want to take it over, but it is controlled by an old-fashioned board of directors—the Kim family and a small number of ultra elites—who ... Read more

    R146,04

  • Hanok: The Korean House

    Timeless Korean Architecture

    by Nani Park, Robert J. Fouser ...
    Appreciate the understated glamour and traditional comfort in this collection of the most excellent examples of timeless Korean architecture.Hanok: The Korean House provides new insights on the stylish traditional Korean homes that are experiencing a resurgence of popularity in Seoul today. While the exteriors of these houses are indistinguishable from traditional hanok built decades ago, the ... Read more

    R233,67

  • La guerra de Corea 1950-1953

    by Jorge Saborido, Javier Bonafina ...
    Series series Historia
    La guerra de Corea fue, probablemente junto al conflicto de Vietnam, el mayor desastre del periodo histórico conocido como la Guerra Fría. El resultado fue la devastación de un país, la división de un pueblo con un elevado nivel de homogeneidad étnica y una serie de consecuencias que siguen presentes en la actualidad y que, por lo visto, perdurarán por mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, se ha generalizado ... Read more

    R159,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory

    Ancient Myths and Modern Empire

    by David Weiss ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity.Susanoo inhabited ... Read more

    R538,53

  • 民初大詞人況周頤說掌故：眉廬叢話（全編本）

    by 況周頤 ...
    Series Book 48 - Do歷史
    況周頤（1859～1926），晚清詞學四大家之一。字夔笙，晚號蕙風詞隱。廣西臨桂（今桂林）人。光緒五年（1879）舉人。曾入兩江總督張之洞、端方幕府，復執教於武進龍城書院和南京師範學堂。辛亥革命後，以清遺老自居，寄跡上海，鬻文爲生。況周頤以詞爲專業，致力五十年，早年詞風輕飄、艷麗，清亡後，多寄寓其懷戀清室之意。《眉廬叢話》是況周頤晚年的著作，也是其最負盛名的掌故筆記著作。《眉廬叢話》的內容包羅萬象，舉凡中國歷代的宮廷秘聞或官場秘事，朝代之典章制度與學人風範，以及許多歷史人物的藝林趣談等等，皆在其品評記述之列。這本況周頤的著作，除了留給後世許多難得的史料蒐集外，也是這位詞人畢生所學之精華。 ... Read more

    Was R113,02 Now R101,29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Korean Landscape Painting

    Continuity and Innovation Through the Ages

    by Yi Song-mi ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 4Korean Landscape Painting : Continuity and Innovation Through the AgesThe narrative and illustrations of this book are generally presented by historical period, including“ The Three Kingdoms and the Unified Silla Periods,” “The Goryeo and Early Joseon Periods,” “The Mid-Joseon Period,” “The Late Joseon Period,”and “The Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century.” Through ... Read more

    R91,14

  • Triangle Republics

    Cross-Border Literary Transits Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan

    by I Jonathan Kief ...
    In Korea, the end of the Second World War in 1945 brought both liberation from Japanese colonial rule and the division of the nation by the triumphant Allies. The peninsula was not only decoupled from its former colonial metropole but also carved up into two halves that were subsequently incorporated into the rival blocs of the emerging Cold War order. Although the two Koreas are typically seen as ... Read more

    R511,28

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 1 (Illustrated)

    by Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, James S. Gale ...
    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

    R54,61