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  • Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture

    Edited by Andrew David Jackson, Sandy Nguyen, Eva Richards ...
    Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture takes a novel approach to understanding Korea’s past and present by blending sounds, imagery, texts, and online and printed materials to provide a multisensory, multimodal experience of Korean culture.Each entry showcases vitally important people, objects, places, events, and institutions that help us conceptualise Korean history, society, and culture. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language

    A Resource Book for Learners and Teachers

    by Heekyung Ahn, Andrew David Jackson, Hyun Mi Kim, Soyeon Kim, Eva Richards, Adam Zulawnik ...
    Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language provides specific linguistic and communicative strategies that help Korean language learners engage in daily conversations as well as discussions and negotiations in work and academic contexts.The book presents, and provides practice in, spoken Korean gambits that will help speakers organise their conversations and frame the type of extended ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements

    Edited by Andrew David Jackson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book departs from existing studies by focusing on the impact of international influences on the society, culture, and language of both North and South Korea. Since President Kim Young Sam’s segyehwa drive of the mid-1990s, South Korea has become a model for successful globalization. In contrast, North Korea is commonly considered one of the least internationally integrated countries. This ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Korean Screen Cultures

    Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games

    Edited by Andrew David Jackson, Colette Balmain ...
    The «Korean Wave», or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean popular culture to the global population. Studies on Korean visual culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leaving North Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of its political regime. Korean Screen Cultures sets out to redress this imbalance with a broad selection of essays spanning both North ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • The 1728 Musin Rebellion

    Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea

    by Andrew David Jackson ...
    The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea provides the first comprehensive account in English of the Musin Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King Yŏngjo (1694–1776; r. 1724–1776), and the largest rebellion of eighteenth-century Korea. The rebellion proved unsuccessful, but during three weeks of fighting the government lost control of over a dozen county seats and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ayn Rand Universe: The Unofficial Guide to Her Life, Books, and Philosophy

    by James Fritz ...
    Ayn Rand is one of the most polarizing authors of the 20th century. Best known for novels “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged,” which used characters intent on exercising their individualism over conformity, Rand became a pop philosopher in the 1950s. Her work upholds the virtues of a philosophy that she and Nathaniel Branden called Objectivism.This book examines both her life and her work; it ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    by Sandra Fahy ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dangerous Women

    Gender and Korean Nationalism

    Edited by Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi ...
    Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ayn Rand

    An Introduction

    by Eamonn Butler ...
    Few 20th century intellectuals have been as influential – and controversial – as the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Her thinking still has a profound impact, particularly on those who come to it through her novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead – with their core messages of individualism, self-worth, and the right to live without the impositions of others. Even though ignored or scorned ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

    $28.99 USD