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North Korea Journal

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0735279829
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book North Korea Journal written by Michael Palin and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, camera crew in tow, to gain a glimpse of life in the most notoriously secretive and cut-off nation on earth. His resulting two-part documentary for Channel 5 fascinated millions and won universal plaudits. Now he shares the journal he meticulously kept during his trip, in which he describes his experiences in a country wholly unlike any other he has ever visited: a country where you will find the Tallest Unoccupied Building in the World; where the residents of Pyongyang awake every morning to the strains of 'Where Are You, Dear General?', broadcast from speakers across the city; and where there are fifteen approved styles of haircut. He chronicles a journey of stark contrasts that takes in a gleamingly modern capital complete with triumphal statues and arches one day, and a countryside that has barely changed in decades on another. He travels to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, to a centuries-old Confucian academy, and to the heart of North Korea's exquisitely beautiful mountains and lakes. He recounts conversations with official guides, teachers, propaganda artists, farmers and soldiers in which mutual incomprehension and shared humanity are constantly intermingled. And he muses on what makes people tick under a regime that to outsiders seems so utterly alien and so grimly authoritarian. Written with Palin's trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, Palin's journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines.

Hamel's Journal

Author : Hendrik Hamel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamel's Journal written by Hendrik Hamel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Korea Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Korea Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Korea Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Korea Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inside the Hermit Kingdom

Author : George Clayton Foulk
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739120965
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Hermit Kingdom written by George Clayton Foulk and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navy ensign George Foulk made a 900-mile journey through southern Korea during which he kept a detailed record of everything he observed and experienced. This travel diary, part of the George Clayton Foulk collection in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has been almost entirely overlooked by scholars and yet is of inestimable value. First, it is an account of a trip no Westerner had ever undertaken before or would ever experience again: a long-distance sedan chair journey in the manner of a Choson-dynasty government official. Containing his private thoughts, penned in the heat of the moment, Foulk's diary is immediate, raw, and honest, laying bare his experience. It gives readers is a superbly descriptive and perceptive record of Korea. Inside the Hermit Kingdom stands unique as a firsthand account of the kingdom of Choson in its pristine condition, before the intrusion of the outside world.

Queer Korea

Author : Todd A. Henry
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003367
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Queer Korea written by Todd A. Henry and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance. Considering both personal and collective forces, contributors extend individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer theory. Along the way, they recount a range of illuminating topics, from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and B-grade comedy films under Cold War dictatorship to toxic masculinity in today’s South Korean military and transgender confrontations with the resident registration system. More broadly, Queer Korea offers readers new ways of understanding the limits and possibilities of human liberation under exclusionary conditions of modernity in Asia and beyond. Contributors. Pei Jean Chen, John (Song Pae) Cho, Chung-kang Kim, Timothy Gitzen, Todd A. Henry, Merose Hwang, Ruin, Layoung Shin, Shin-ae Ha, John Whittier Treat

Mammals of Korea

Author : Yeong-Seok Jo
Publisher : National Institute of Biological Resources
ISBN 13 : 8968113696
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Mammals of Korea written by Yeong-Seok Jo and published by National Institute of Biological Resources. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Curative Violence

Author : Eunjung Kim
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373513
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Curative Violence written by Eunjung Kim and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and to understand how nonmedical and medical cures come with violent effects that are not only symbolic but also physical. Writing disability theory in a transnational context, Kim tracks the shifts from the 1930s to the present in the ways that disabled bodies and narratives of cure have been represented in Korean folktales, novels, visual culture, media accounts, policies, and activism. Whether analyzing eugenics, the management of Hansen's disease, discourses on disabled people's sexuality, violence against disabled women, or rethinking the use of disabled people as a metaphor for life under Japanese colonial rule or under the U.S. military occupation, Kim shows how the possibility of life with disability that is free from violence depends on the creation of a space and time where cure is seen as a negotiation rather than a necessity.

Fearing the Worst

Author : Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549946
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Fearing the Worst written by Samuel F. Wells Jr. and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Decisions made by the Truman administration in the first six months of the Korean War drove both superpowers to intensify their defense buildup. American leaders feared the worst-case scenario—that Stalin was prepared to start World War III—and raced to build up strategic arms, resulting in a struggle they did not seek out or intend. Their decisions stemmed from incomplete interpretations of Soviet and Chinese goals, especially the belief that China was a Kremlin puppet. Yet Stalin, Mao, and Kim Il-sung all had their own agendas, about which the United States lacked reliable intelligence. Drawing on newly available documents and memoirs—including previously restricted archives in Russia, China, and North Korea—Wells analyzes the key decision points that changed the course of the war. He also provides vivid profiles of the central actors as well as important but lesser known figures. Bringing together studies of military policy and diplomacy with the roles of technology, intelligence, and domestic politics in each of the principal nations, Fearing the Worst offers a new account of the Korean War and its lasting legacy.

Consolidating Democracy in South Korea

Author : Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555878481
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Consolidating Democracy in South Korea written by Larry Jay Diamond and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the dilemmas, tensions and contradictions arising from democratic consolidation in South Korea. It explores the turbulent features of Korean democracy in its first decade, assesses the progress that has been made, and identifies the key obstacles to effective democratic governance.

When the Future Disappears

Author : Janet Poole
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538553
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book When the Future Disappears written by Janet Poole and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most sophisticated writings of twentieth-century modernism. Yi T'aejun, Ch'oe Myongik, Im Hwa, So Insik, Ch'oe Chaeso, Pak T'aewon, Kim Namch'on, and O Changhwan, among other Korean writers, lived through a rare colonial history in which their vernacular language was first inducted into the modern, only to be shut out again through the violence of state power. The colonial suppression of Korean-language publications was an effort to mobilize toward war, and it forced Korean writers to face the loss of their letters and devise new, creative forms of expression. Their remarkable struggle reflects the stark foreclosure at the heart of the modern colonial experience. Straddling cultural, intellectual, and literary history, this book maps the different strategies, including abstraction, irony, paradox, and even silence, that Korean writers used to narrate life within the Japanese empire.

The Diary of 1636

Author : Na Man’gap
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552238
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of 1636 written by Na Man’gap and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636, the only first-person account chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack. Partly composed as a narrative of quotidian events during the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender. Na describes military campaigns along the northern and western regions of the country, the capture of the royal family, and the Manchu treatment of prisoners, offering insights into debates about Confucian loyalty and the conduct of women that took place in the war’s aftermath. His work sheds light on such issues as Confucian statecraft, military decision making, and ethnic interpretations of identity in the seventeenth century. Translated from literary Chinese into English for the first time, the diary illuminates a traumatic moment for early modern Korean politics and society. George Kallander’s critical introduction and extensive annotations place The Diary of 1636 in its historical, political, and military context, highlighting the importance of this text for students and scholars of Chinese and East Asian as well as Korean history.

South Korea Travel Journal - South Korea Flag Notebook - South Korean Flag Book

Author : Travel Notebooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086440799
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book South Korea Travel Journal - South Korea Flag Notebook - South Korean Flag Book written by Travel Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 110 white pages Unruled notebook (blank white pages) South Korea Flag matte cover This South Korea Flag notebook is the perfect companion for your next trip to South Korea. Use it as a travel journal, journey diary as an South Korean gift for friends and family at home. Keep track of your adventures, experiences, impressions and memories with this South Korea notebook and make them last forever.

Seeds of Control

Author : David Fedman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747471
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Control written by David Fedman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea’s forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan’s imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.” Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.

Korea, a Century of Change

Author : Jrgen Kleiner
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812799951
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Korea, a Century of Change written by Jrgen Kleiner and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an evenhanded coverage of Korea''s turbulent history during the last one hundred years, from seclusion to division. It focuses particularly on the development of the two different and antagonistic states on the peninsula since 1945. The author sees both countries through the windows of their possibilities and interests. He supplements his narrative, which makes use of rich source material, with observations he has made in South Korea, where he spent more than ten years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and where he had access to politicians and opinion leaders. The book starts by describing how the Hermit Kingdom was exposed to the greed of foreign powers at the end of the 19th century and how it became the victim of imperialistic Japan, then account is given of the country''s division and the hardening of that division through the Korean War. The rule of the military and the final triumph of civilian democrats in South Korea are analyzed in much detail. One chapter is devoted to the rise and intermittent decline of the South Korean economy. The history of North Korea under Kim II Sung and under his son is told, before the foreign relations of both Koreas are explained. A chapter on the so far overwhelmingly antagonistic South-North relations concludes the book. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (95 KB). Chapter 1: The Hermit Kingdom (172 KB). Contents: Korea and the Modern Age: The Hermit Kingdom; Within Reach of the World Powers; The Japanese Rule; Divided Korea: The Origins of the Division of Korea; The Korean War Phase One: Towards Reunification; The Korean War Phase Two: The Division Hardens; Politics and Economics in the Republic of Korea: Syngman Rhee''s Korea; The Rise of Park Chung Hee; The Yushin System; Steps to Power; No Better Country?; OC Down with Military DictatorshipOCO The Beginnings of Democratic Rule; Civilian Leadership; The Economy; The Democratic People''s Republic of Korea: The State of Kim II Sung; North Korea Under the Son; Foreign Relations: South Korea''s Great Partner; The Neighbor in the East; Northern Policy; North Korea''s Foreign Partners; Nuclear Dangers and Beyond; South-North Relations: Confrontation and Dialogue. Readership: General."

South Korea Dot Grid Journal

Author : Clementine Journals
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795898508
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book South Korea Dot Grid Journal written by Clementine Journals and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trendy map themed dot grid travel journal is ideal for any traveler to document their travels, adventures, and write down essential information such as emergency contacts, prescriptions, reservations, itineraries. Use as a diary to capture experiences and memories that you can refer to over and over again.Compact 6" x 9" paperback notebook and contains 120 dot grid cream paper.

Origins of North Korea's Juche

Author : Chae-jŏng Sŏ
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739176587
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Origins of North Korea's Juche written by Chae-jŏng Sŏ and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over five decades, North Korea has outlived many forecasts of collapse despite defects in its system. Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development, edited by Jae-Jung Suh, argues that it has survived because of Juche, a unique political institution built on the simple notion of self-determination, whose meanings and limits have been shaped by Koreans' experiences with colonialism, war, and development amidst surrounding superpowers that have complicated their aspirations and plans. The authors in this volume collectively provide an historical institutionalist account of North Korean politics organized around the concept of Juche--commonly translated as self-reliance, but best understood as subjecthood or being a master of one's own fate--focusing on its role as a response to North Korea's experiences with colonialism, the Korean War, and economic development. The contributors further discuss how Juche circumscribes the evolutionary path that North Koreans can take as they negotiate contemporary challenges. North Korea, as it is now, is best understood in terms of Juche which embodies the cumulative effect of its historical experiences and responses, and its future potential and trajectory, as enabled and constrained by its conception of Juche. This collection provides fascinating insights into the politics and history of one of the world's most mysterious nations.