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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
by Cullen Thomas  Publisher Comments Cullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and excitement beyond a nine-to-five routine, so he set off for Seoul, South Korea, to teach English and look for adventure. What...
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Korean War (America at War)
by Donald M. Goldstein Synopsis Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean War, this compelling photographic history tells the entire story of the war...
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Sources of Korean Tradition Volume II : From the Sixteenth To the Twentieth Centuries (00 Edition)
by Y“ngho (ed.) Ch'oe Publisher Comments Modeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century...
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Korea (Global Political Hot Spots)
by Christopher Bluth Publisher Comments Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and...
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The Origins of the Choson Dynasty (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of Internation)
by John B. Duncan Synopsis Scholars have long held that Korea's Choson dynasty (1392-1910) was established by a new socioeconomic class of scholar-officials of local-landlord origins who overthrew the capital-based aristocracy of the Koryo dynasty (918-1392). The Origins of the...
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South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence
by Kenneth M. Wells Synopsis The minjung (people's) movement stood at the forefront of the June 1987 nationwide tide that swept away the military in South Korea and opened up space for relatively democratic politics. This volume grapples with the nature of a national development...
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Guides to Economic and Political Developments in Asia #1: North Korea a Guide to Economic and Political Developments
by Ian Jeffries Synopsis There is much intense interest in North Korea at present. This partly arises from questions about Korea's nuclear capability and intentions, and about the extent to which North Korea may be viewed as 'a rogue state' or part of 'the axis of evil'. In...
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The Making of Modern Korea: A History (Asia's Transformations)
by Adrian Buzo Synopsis This text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day. Key features of the book include: *Comprehensive coverage of Korean History *Analysis of important contemporary developments *A comparative focus on both...
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Korea in the Pacific Century: Selected Speeches
by Roh Tae Woo Book News Annotation In this selection of speeches, the president of the Republic of Korea addresses such issues as the reunification of South and North Korea, democracy and prosperity in the Republic, Korea's place in the world, relations with Japan and the former Soviet...
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The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
by Charles Rob Jenkins Publisher Comments In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized...
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Koreans Contemporary Politics & Soci 3RD Edition
by Donald St Macdonald Publisher Comments In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald’s widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years. Remaining true...
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North Korea Under Kim Jong I1: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance
by Sung Chull Kim Synopsis Examines internal changes in North Korea under the expanding rule of Kim Jong II...
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The Partition of Korea After World War II: A Global History
by Jongsoo Lee Publisher Comments Sixty years after Korea’s partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence...
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Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea
by Keith Pratt Publisher Comments The defiant dictatorship of North Korea and the thriving democracy of South Korea may appear starkly different, but they share a complex and often misunderstood history that is ably recounted in Everlasting Flower. Keith Pratt traverses the ancient...
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America's Man in Korea: The Private Letters of George Clayton Foulk
by Samuel Hawley Book News Annotation George C. Foulke served two years as the second charg...
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Korea vs. Korea: Political Economy, Diplomacy, & Contested Legitimacy
by Barry Gills Synopsis This study traces the historic course of diplomatic competition between the rival Koreas within the context of a changing international system. "Korea versus Korea" spans the years from 1948 through the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994, examining the...
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Uncovering the Codes: Fifteen Keywords in Korean Culture
by Kim Yol-kyu Synopsis Uncovering the Codes: Fifteen Keywords in Korean Culture is a cultural guide to what is unique about Koreans and their way of life. The questions raised in this book range from the mundane to the spiritual, each touching on the essence of Korea's 5,000...
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For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of the Country
by Kim Il Sung Synopsis This book contains speeches and writings between 1948 and 1975 of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on the subject of reunification of Korea. His thoughts offer interesting insights into the communist view of reunification on the Korean Peninsula....
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North Korea (History of Nations)
by Debra A. Miller Synopsis U.S. President George Bush has charged that North Korea is part of an "axis of evil" that threatens the peace of the world by supporting terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction. This anthology reviews the history of the Korean peninsula, and...
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The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea
by Namhee Lee Book News Annotation Lee (Asian languages and cultures, U. of California-Los Angeles) explores how intellectuals and university students who participated in the South Korean democratization movement of the 1970s and 1980s, articulated, contested, and practices the notion...
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