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“david e shaffer”

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  • Seasonal Customs of Korea

    de David E. Shaffer ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 7Seasonal Customs of KoreaThe seasonal customs of Korea are the folk traditions of everyday life that have been repeated annually throughout the ages. As such, the residents of a particular community came to share a uniformity of everyday customs by living within the same natural environment and cultural setting. In this regard, seasonal customs are closely related to the ... Leer más

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  • North Korea Confidential

    Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

    de Daniel Tudor, James Pearson ...
    ****Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.**North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the ... Leer más

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  • The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

    de I. F. Stone ...
    Series Libro 10 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "A great journalist" raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings ( The Baltimore Sun)."Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins." —From the author's prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Leer más

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  • Under The Same Sky

    From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America

    de Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty ...
    In this "courageous and inspiring memoir," a young man recounts his escape from an impoverished childhood and adolescence in North Korea ( Kirkus Reviews).Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long, terrible ordeal that killed millions, including his father, ... Leer más

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  • Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle

    Fighting Words / Korea / Triumph at Kapyong / Deadlock in Korea / Cross-Border Warriors

    de Fred Gaffen, Dan Bjarnason, Ted Barris, Mark Bourrie, John Melady ...
    This ebook bundle contains five books that chronicle Canada's participation in the conflict that gripped the Korean peninsula from 1950–53 and resulted in two very different nations that remain at odds today. This bloody and traumatic face-off between capitalist and communist ideologies highlighted the tensions of the Cold War that drew in nations from many parts of the world. Canadian soldiers ... Leer más

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  • Korea and Her Neighbours - A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country

    de Isabella Bird Bishop ...
    This antiquarian volume contains a vivid description of nineteenth century Korea written by Isabella Bird Bishop. This account comprises an interesting and insightful narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and contemporary state of society in the country. This text is as much of an exploration of Victorian mindsets as it is an exploration of foreign lands, and will be of ... Leer más

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  • 100 Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures

    An introductory cultural competence guide for Americans about the customs, history, politics and languages background of people from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong

    de Michigan State University School of Journalism, Helen Zia, Jane Hyun, Sook Wilkinson ...
    This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays, identity, language, religion, social norms, politics, education, work, families and food. This ... Leer más

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  • Everlasting Flower

    A History of Korea

    de Keith Pratt ...
    South Korea – a democratic high-tech Asian Tiger and flamboyant host of the 2002 World Cup; North Korea – a secretive dictatorship on Bush’s notorious ‘axis of evil’, with a controversial nuclear program and a poverty-stricken population. These two Koreas seem worlds apart, separated along the 38th parallel by the last active ‘cold war’ frontier. But North and South Korea share a common history ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash

    East Asian Security and the United States

    de Brad Glosserman, Scott A. Snyder ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of expertise, Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder investigate the roots of this split and its ongoing ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945

    Edición de Clark W. Sorensen, Hong Yung Lee, Yong-Chool Ha ...
    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space within the colonial system to show agency. Topics covered range from economic development and national identity to education and family; from peasant ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Hello Asia, Korea

    Korea, possessing the spirit of tiger

    de Hyundai Research Institute ...
    Koreans indeed think that the symbolic animal of Korea is the tiger. As there is a saying that goes, you look alike when you live together, Koreans have lived with tigers for a long time to congest the spirit of tigers ourselves. We have learned the "quickly" habit from their brave and swift actions, and the vigorous and confident disposition from their pride that wouldn't touch grass even when ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Tourist Distractions

    Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema

    de Youngmin Choe ...
    In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses hallyu (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration of the tourist imaginary into hallyu cinema points to the region's evolving transnational politics ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD