From the publisher’s website: The book explores the implications of the democratic movement that took place in Gwangju, a southwestern city of Korea, in May 1980 when military paratroopers brutally crushed a group of protesters who demonstrated against General Chun Doo-hwan, who was about to become the country’s president. Because of the event now known … [Read More]
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A Topography of Confucian Discourse: Politico-philosophical Reflections on Confucian Discourse since Modernity
From the publisher’s website: Throughout history, numerous scholars and intellectuals have tried to define Confucianism one way or another. Despite their efforts, the voices of those who claim to have found the essence of Confucianism are as much at odds as ever. A Topography of Confucian Discourse analyzes Confucian discussion in diverse historical settings, examining … [Read More]
Korea: A Cartographic History
From the publisher’s website: The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, Korea: A Cartographic History provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today’s most prolific and well-respected geographers, encapsulates six hundred years of maps made by Koreans and non-Koreans alike. Largely chronological in … [Read More]
Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century
From the publisher’s website: Korean History in Maps is a beautifully presented, full-color atlas covering all periods of Korean history from prehistoric times to the present day. It is the first atlas of its kind to be specifically designed for students in English-speaking countries. There is a map for each era in Korean history, showing … [Read More]
The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea’s Tiananmen
From the publisher’s website: The Kwangju Uprising that occurred in May 1980 is burned into the minds of South Koreans in much the same way that Tiananmen is burned into the minds of contemporary Chinese. As the world watched in horror following the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, student protesters were brutally suppressed by … [Read More]
The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy
From the publisher’s website: There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable democratic polity? South Korea was long ruled with harsh … [Read More]
The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America
From the publisher’s website: With the extraordinary growth of Christianity in the global south has come the rise of “reverse missions,” in which countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America send missionaries to re-evangelize the West. In The Spirit Moves West, Rebecca Kim focuses on South Korea as a case study of how non-Western missionaries evangelize Americans, … [Read More]
Right to Mourn: Trauma, Empathy, and Korean War Memorials
From the publisher’s website: In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War. Only since the 1990s has the government begun to acknowledge the atrocities committed by South Korean and American troops that resulted in large numbers … [Read More]
South Korea in the Fast Lane: Economic Development and Capital Formation
From the publisher’s website: The economic development of South Korea has multiplied the nations output and transformed it from an agrarian economy to that of a major industrial power. This book is a study of development of the South Korean economy based on available data with minimal historical description, focusing on investment, the sources and … [Read More]
Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation
From the publisher’s website: The so-called miraculous economic development in the southern half of the Korean peninsula has transformed from basically an agrarian economy to that of a major industrial power in a very short time period, and it is now considered one of a dozen or so of industrialized countries in the world. However, … [Read More]
Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
From the publisher’s website: What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two … [Read More]
North Korea: What Everyone Needs to Know®
From the publisher’s website: After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea’s decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017. Though Kim’s pronouncement appears premature, North Korea is on the verge of being able to strike … [Read More]
The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945
From the publisher’s website: Korean diasporic nationalism in the years between 1905 and 1945 played a foundational role in the emergence of the two separate Koreas after 1945 that both exist to this day. Koreans in the United States were a constitutive part of this historical trajectory. The Quest for Statehood traces the development of … [Read More]
Old Seoul (Images of Asia)
From the back cover: Seoul has one of the richest histories of any Asian city, and yet the vestiges of its past are often masked by its ultra-modern landscapes. Old Seoul takes the reader back to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when the city evolved from being the closed capital of the ‘Hermit … [Read More]
The Korean Economy: Perspectives for the 21st Century
From the publisher’s website: Lee, former South Korean government Minister of Labor for the South Korean government, discusses the country’s economic development from 1945-1994 and the public policies that shaped it, arguing that if South Korea is to become a major economic power, the government should withdraw from the economic front line. “The Korean Economy is … [Read More]
Understanding Korean Politics: An Introduction
From the publisher’s website: Presents an indispensable survey of contemporary Korean politics. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Korea and East Asia, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to contemporary Korean politics. It explicates the great changes in South Korea, which has gone from being one of the poorest nations to a … [Read More]