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42 produkter
Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture
Av Jisoo M Kim, Dafna Zur m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
307 kr
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This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources—including memoirs, diplomatic letters, newspapers, films, video diaries, photographs, and …
Ilse
First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973
Häftad, 2000
326 kr
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an impressive and much needed contribution to Korean american and Hawaii history and significantly advacnes our knowledge of theEast Asia immigrant experience in the US.
Education Fever
Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea
Inbunden, 2002
616 kr
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In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country's transformation from a nation where a majority of the population had no …
Laying Claim to the Memory of May
A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising
Häftad, 2002
254 kr
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The Kwangju Uprising - ""Korea's Tiananmen"" - is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. …
Crisis in North Korea
The Failure of De-stalinization, 1956
Häftad, 2007
251 kr
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North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries. The acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scholarship. Through his access to Soviet archival material made available only a decade ago, contemporary North Korean press accounts, and personal …
Koreo-Japonica
A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin
Inbunden, 2009
639 kr
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The Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have long been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. Although in the last fifty years many specialists in Japonic and Korean historical linguistics have voiced their support for a genetic …
Questioning Minds
Short Stories by Modern Korean Women
Av Yung-hee Kim
Inbunden, 2009
721 kr
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Available for the first time in English, the ten short stories by modern Korean women collected here touch in one way or another on issues related to gender and kinship politics. All of the protagonists are women facing personal crises or defining moments in their lives as gender-marked beings in a …
Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way
The Tonghak and Chŏndogyo Movements and the Twilight of Korean Independence
Inbunden, 2014
565 kr
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Tonghak, or Eastern Learning, was the first major new religion in modern Korean history. Founded in 1860, it combined aspects of a variety of Korean religious traditions. Because of its appeal to the poor and marginalized, it became best known for its prominent role in the largest peasant rebellion …
Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea
Av Don Baker, Franklin Rausch m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
300 kr
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Korea's first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Korean Catholics. Don Baker provides an invaluable analysis of …
Imperatives of Care
Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea
Av Sonja M. Kim
Häftad, 2020
309 kr
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In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation's reproductive health and women's responsibility for care work to produce novel organization of services in hospitals and practices in the home. The first …
Surviving Imperial Intrigues
Korea's Struggle for Neutrality Amid Empires, 1882-1907
Av Sangpil Jin
Inbunden, 2021
797 kr
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In Surviving Imperial Intrigues, Sangpil Jin explores how successful Korean neutralization could have radically transformed the balance of power equation in East Asia. He conducted multilocational archival work, analyzing documents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire Ministry of Foreign Affairs, …
Divorce in South Korea
Doing Gender and the Dynamics of Relationship Breakdown
Av Yean-Ju Lee, Christopher J. Bae m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
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It may sound logical that individualistic attitudes boost divorce. This book argues otherwise. Conservative norms of specialized gender roles serve as the root cause of marital dissolution. Those expectations that prescribe what men should do and what women should do help break down marital …
Between the Streets and the Assembly
Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in Korea
Inbunden, 2022
774 kr
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Streets in Korea rarely go quiet without first having a public demonstration and Korean citizens are known as seasoned protestors, charting the course of national politics. Between the Streets and the Assembly explores how protest movements have become the prominent mode of democratic politics in …
Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Av Andrew David Jackson, Codruța Sîntionean m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
782 kr
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Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions-cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin-is still relevant, important, and highly …
Flower of Capitalism
South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads
Inbunden, 2022
774 kr
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An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs …
Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Av Don Baker, Remco Breuker m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions—cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin—is still relevant, important, and highly …
Between the Streets and the Assembly
Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in Korea
Häftad, 2022
309 kr
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Streets in Korea rarely go quiet without first having a public demonstration, and Korean citizens are known as seasoned protestors, charting the course of national politics. Between the Streets and the Assembly explores how protest movements have become the prominent mode of democratic politics in …
Flower of Capitalism
South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs …
100°C
South Korea's 1987 Democracy Movement
Av Choi Kyu-sok, Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Häftad, 2023
267 kr
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What does it take for ordinary citizens to risk everything to protest living under a repressive government? What takes them beyond the brink, to the "boiling point"? In his graphic novel 100°C, celebrated webtoon and comics artist Choi Kyu-sok sheds a light on these questions by examining the lives …
Dawn of Labor
Av Park Nohae
Inbunden, 2024
955 kr
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Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn …
Moral Authoritarianism
Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931–1972
Inbunden, 2023
797 kr
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Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states-the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea-by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s–1960s). The existing historiography perceives the three states in relation to …
Red Decades
Communism As Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945
Häftad, 2023
309 kr
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Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and travelogues by socialist writers, The Red Decades reveals Marxian socialism as a cultural phenomenon of colonial-age Korea. Providing an account of the …
Moral Authoritarianism
Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931–1972
Häftad, 2023
309 kr
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Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states-the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea-by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s–1960s). The existing historiography perceives the three states in relation to …
Beyond the Sewol
Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora
Av Areum Jeong
Inbunden, 2025
872 kr
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On the evening of April 15, 2014, the Sewol ferry set sail on its overnight journey from Incheon, in northwestern South Korea, to Jeju Island, 240 miles to the south. There were 476 people on board. After receiving a distress call from a passenger onboard, Harbor Affairs at Jeju and at Jindo Island …
Beyond the Sewol
Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora
Av Areum Jeong
Häftad, 2025
310 kr
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On the evening of April 15, 2014, the Sewol ferry set sail on its overnight journey from Incheon, in northwestern South Korea, to Jeju Island, 240 miles to the south. There were 476 people on board. After receiving a distress call from a passenger onboard, Harbor Affairs at Jeju and at Jindo Island …
Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture
Av Jisoo M. Kim
Inbunden, 2026
872 kr
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This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources—including memoirs, diplomatic letters, newspapers, films, video diaries, photographs, and …
Aesthetics of Abandonment
Literary and Visual Culture of Early South Korea
Inbunden, 2027
872 kr
Kommande
For many, today’s image of South Korea is shaped by a triumphalist narrative that celebrates its economic prosperity, resilient democracy, and world-renowned culture industry. Against this backdrop, historical accounts of early South Korea tend to focus on its shortcomings, depicting a society …
Aesthetics of Abandonment
Literary and Visual Culture of Early South Korea
Häftad, 2027
339 kr
Kommande
For many, today’s image of South Korea is shaped by a triumphalist narrative that celebrates its economic prosperity, resilient democracy, and world-renowned culture industry. Against this backdrop, historical accounts of early South Korea tend to focus on its shortcomings, depicting a society …
Laying Claim to the Memory of May
A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising
Inbunden, 2002
611 kr
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The Kwangju Uprising - ""Korea's Tiananmen"" - is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. …
Voices from the Straw Mat
Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing
Av Chan E. Park
Inbunden, 2003
666 kr
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From its humble ""straw mat"" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, p'ansori has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. In this innovative work, Chan Park celebrates her subject not as a static phenomenon but a …
