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Long Road Home

Author : Yong Kim
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231519281
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Long Road Home written by Yong Kim and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime. As a lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, Kim Yong enjoyed unprecedented privilege in a society that closely monitored its citizens. He owned an imported car and drove it freely throughout the country. He also encountered corruption at all levels, whether among party officials or Japanese trade partners, and took note of the illicit benefits that were awarded to some and cruelly denied to others. When accusations of treason stripped Kim Yong of his position, the loose distinction between those who prosper and those who suffer under Kim Jong-il became painfully clear. Kim Yong was thrown into a world of violence and terror, condemned to camp No. 14 in Hamkyeong province, North Korea's most notorious labor camp. As he worked a constant shift 2,400 feet underground, daylight became Kim's new luxury; as the months wore on, he became intimately acquainted with political prisoners, subhuman camp guards, and an apocalyptic famine that killed millions. After years of meticulous planning, and with the help of old friends, Kim escaped and came to the United States via China, Mongolia, and South Korea. Presented here for the first time in its entirety, his story not only testifies to the atrocities being committed behind North Korea's wall of silence but also illuminates the daily struggle to maintain dignity and integrity in the face of unbelievable hardship. Like the work of Solzhenitsyn, this rare portrait tells a story of resilience as it reveals the dark forms of oppression, torture, and ideological terror at work in our world today.

American Survivors

Author : Naoko Wake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835279
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book American Survivors written by Naoko Wake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known history of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings reveals captivating trans-Pacific memories of war, illness, gender, and community.

The Korean Information Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Order to Live

Author : Yeonmi Park
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698409361
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book In Order to Live written by Yeonmi Park and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller “Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again.” —Publishers Weekly In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country. Park’s testimony is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.

Korean "Comfort Women"

Author : Pyong Gap Min
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978814984
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Korean "Comfort Women" written by Pyong Gap Min and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women’s movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.

The Comfort Women

Author : C. Sarah Soh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676804X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Comfort Women written by C. Sarah Soh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Ask a Korean Dude

Author : Kim Hyung-geun
Publisher : Seoul Selection
ISBN 13 : 8997639064
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Ask a Korean Dude written by Kim Hyung-geun and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of articles from the "Ask a Korean Dude" column Seoul Selection's monthly travel and culture magazine, SEOUL, ran to answer questions posed by readers regarding aspects of Korean society and culture. Fielding the questions with sincerity and a dash of humor, the "Korean Dude"—frequently making use of his own endearing personal experiences—turned cultural quirks into cultural understanding, providing insight into the workings of Korean culture. This book is a tool with which you, the foreigner, may come to not only understand the distinctly curious aspects of Korea, but also appreciate the deeply running veins of traditional and modern culture interlaced into this complex—but actually rather simple—society.

Voices of the Korean Comfort Women

Author : Chungmoo Choi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100075006X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Korean Comfort Women written by Chungmoo Choi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, including teenagers, euphemistically referred to in Japanese documents as Comfort Women, were shipped to the vastly expanded battlefronts throughout the Japan-occupied territories covering Northern China to Myanmar and to the South Pacific Islands. Many of these girls died, were killed or abandoned during and after the war, but a small percentage of them returned only to face yet another devastating war at home and lasting social stigma. In Voices of the Korean Comfort Women, nine survivors tell their traumatic life stories as to how they were taken, how they had been treated with atrocities at the Comfort Stations, and how they had survived through not only the Pacific War but also the Korean War and beyond. These often-harrowing personal testimonies are each expanded by the interviewer’s observational notes, thereby providing poignant contextual information. This English translation of vital oral history, underpinned with theoretically informed guides, will be invaluable to students and scholars of Asian history, the Pacific War and wartime sexual violence against women as well as those interested in historical trauma and human rights.

Examining the Plight of Refugees

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Examining the Plight of Refugees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

Author : Chris Vola
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466891629
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Only the Dead Know Brooklyn written by Chris Vola and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vampire who is confined to Brooklyn gives up his immortality to save the human love of his life and unknowingly wades into a much larger supernatural conspiracy. Ryan Driggs has lived in Brooklyn for 128 years, 96 of them as one of the last members of a tribe of blood-eating immortals who have called the borough home since before colonial times. Besides the occasional hard-to-control thirst, his life in the twenty-first century is uneventful, until he meets Jennifer, a human from Manhattan with whom he falls in love. Unable to leave Brooklyn without reverting back to his original, cancer-stricken human state, Ryan knows he must tell Jennifer who and what he really is. But before he can find the words, she is kidnapped by a tribe of Manhattan vampires—and Ryan discovers that, for a reason unknown to him, he is a target too. After contacting the oldest member of his tribe, a former slave named Frank Lafayette, and after an attempt on their lives that leaves two of Frank’s employees dead, Ryan realizes he’s been thrust into a world that is more dangerous than anything he’d imagined. As he travels to Manhattan to rescue Jennifer, forsaking his immortality, he gets caught up in a roller coaster of violence, lies, manipulation, and a power struggle that stretches back thousands of years. Chris Vola's Only the Dead Know Brooklyn takes place in a world where conspiracies are more than just theories—where Ryan must decide to fight, or forsake both of the species he's called his own.

Weight

Author : Dan Rempala
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578127954
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Weight written by Dan Rempala and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aspiring writer realizes his dream and launches his literary career... ... shepherded by another aspiring writer who realized her failure and became a literary agent. Unable to repeat the success of his first book, the writer exists in limbo of purposelessness and diminishing royalties... ... while the agent grows to resent him and blame him for her precarious position at the literary agency. The writer takes a trip to Korea, while the agent, desperate for a best-seller, raises the question... ...wouldn't it be better for everyone if he just killed himself?

Boogeymen

Author : Joseph M. Bailey
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595261000
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Boogeymen written by Joseph M. Bailey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas oilman Max Brown s wellheads are being mysteriously destroyed and people are dying hideous, terrifying deaths. When he enlists the assistance of a Fort Worth detective and a World War II veteran, he discovers that the culprit is an ancient, mysterious race of monstrous creatures. What are they? Where do they come from? Together, the men form an unlikely triumverate that must race against time to discover the nature of these creatures while rushing towards a spine-tingling, page-turning climax!

How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel

Author : Sarah Franklin
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580052428
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book How to Fit a Car Seat on a Camel written by Sarah Franklin and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted anthology about the challenges of traveling with children celebrates the sanity-testing chaos of road trips to the beach, overseas vacations, and everything in between with kids of all ages and temperaments in tow. Original.

The Shocking Truth about North Korean Tyranny

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Shocking Truth about North Korean Tyranny written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Systemic Silencing

Author : Katharine E. McGregor
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299344207
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Systemic Silencing written by Katharine E. McGregor and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The system of prostitution imposed and enforced by the Japanese military during its wartime occupation of several countries in East and Southeast Asia is today well-known and uniformly condemned. Transnational activist movements have sought to recognize and redress survivors of this World War II-era system, euphemistically known as “comfort women,” for decades, with a major wave beginning in the 1990s. However, Indonesian survivors, and even the system’s history in Indonesia to begin with, have largely been sidelined, even within the country itself. Here, Katharine E. McGregor not only untangles the history of the system during the war, but also unpacks the context surrounding the slow and faltering efforts to address it. With careful attention to the historical, social, and political conditions surrounding sexual violence in Indonesia, supported by exhaustive research and archival diligence, she uncovers a critical piece of Indonesian history and the ongoing efforts to bring it to the public eye. Critically, she establishes that the transnational part of activism surrounding victims of the system is both necessary and fraught, a complexity of geopolitics and international relationships on one hand and a question of personal networks, linguistic differences, and cultural challenges on the other.

Issues in Clinical Medicine Research and Practice: 2011 Edition

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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
ISBN 13 : 146496484X
Total Pages : 1916 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Clinical Medicine Research and Practice: 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 1916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Clinical Medicine Research and Practice: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Clinical Medicine Research and Practice. The editors have built Issues in Clinical Medicine Research and Practice: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Clinical Medicine Research and Practice in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Clinical Medicine Research and Practice: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Comfort Women Activism

Author : Eika Tai
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528459
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Comfort Women Activism written by Eika Tai and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women committed before and during World War II alive. The book shows how the challenges faced by the activists have evolved from the beginning of their uphill battles all the way to contemporary times. They were able to change social attitudes and get their message across. Yet the ambiguous position of post–World War II Japan’s government—which has consistently rejected any sign of guilt over its imperialist past—has kept the activists on their toes. Pivotal and serendipitous turning points have also played a crucial role. In particular, in the early 1990s, the post-Soviet world order assisted in creating the appropriate conditions for the movement to gather transnational support. These conditions have eroded over time; yet due to the activists’ fidelity to survivors, the movement has persisted to this day. Tai uses the activists’ narratives to show the multifaceted aspects of the movement. By measuring these narratives against scholarly debates, she argues that comfort women activism in Japan could be called a new form of feminism. “A manuscript of this depth covering such a range of material about the comfort women movement has not previously been available in English. I am deeply impressed by the author’s scholarly commitment and humanitarian compassion. The accounts provided in the book are particularly moving, putting a human face on the transnational comfort women movement that has had a global impact.” —Peipei Qiu, Vassar College “Eika Tai urges a postcolonial understanding of how activists in Japan came to embrace the issue of ‘comfort women,’ make it their own, and engage on a transnational, multigenerational effort. Her book is an absolutely clear rejection of those who portray this historical topic as activism meant to ‘hate Japan.’ Instead, she claims that this issue is at the heart of a divided Japan.” —Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut