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Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea
New Women, Old Ways: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies, Volume 1
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a 'modern' Korean woman was deeply bound up in such …
Factory Girl Literature
Häftad, 2012
514 kr
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As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea's manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the factory girl in Korean literature from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing the complex ways in which …
No Alternative?
Av Nancy Abelmann, Jung-ah Choi m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
305 kr
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No Alternative? Examines education in South Korea beyond daytime K-16 schooling - an escalating phenomenon in an increasingly neoliberal and globalizing society. Ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education reveal that …
Protesting America
Häftad, 2013
456 kr
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When the US-Korea military alliance began to deteriorate in the 2000s, many commentators blamed "anti-Americanism" and nationalism, especially among younger South Koreans. Challenging these assumptions, this book argues that Korean activism around US relations owes more to transformations in …
Treacherous Translation
Av Serk-Bae Suh
Häftad, 2013
347 kr
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This book examines the role of translation - the rendering of texts and ideas from one language to another, as both act and trope - in shaping attitudes toward nationalism and colonialism in Korean and Japanese intellectual discourse between the time of Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910 and the …
Division System in Crisis
Häftad, 2011
302 kr
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Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea's most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume represents the first book-length collection of his writings in English. Paik's distinctive theme is …
