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  • Passing, Posing, Persuasion

    Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire

    by Andre Haag, Robert Tierney, Dr. Kimberly Kono, Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Joan E. Ericson, Faye Yuan Kleeman, Dr. Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, Yuni Kang0, Dr. Cindi Textor1 ...
    Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that sought to persuade colonial subjects to identify with the empire while simultaneously maintaining the distinctions that subjugated them and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost

    by Sok-pom Kim ...
    Translated by Cindi Textor ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident of Japan who is not of Japanese ancestry, the novel tells the story of Mandogi, a young priest living on the island of Cheju-do. Mandogi becomes unwittingly involved in the Four-Three Incident of 1948, in which the ... Read more

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    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    by Barbara Demick ...
    An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemicNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTIn this landmark addition to ... Read more

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  • Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader

    North Korea and the Kim Dynasty

    by Bradley K. Martin ...
    Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Under The Same Sky

    From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America

    by 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, ... Read more

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  • In Mortal Combat

    Korea, 1950–1953

    by John Toland ...
    A history of the Korean War with soldier's-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy.Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which ... Read more

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  • Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle

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

    by Fred Gaffen, Dan Bjarnason, Ted Barris, Mark Bourrie, John Melady ...
    Series series Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle
    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 ... Read more

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  • Korean Folk Tales Part 1 (Illustrated)

    by Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, James S. Gale ...
    Series Book 1 - Korean Folk Tales (Illustrated)
    To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.An old manuscript copy of Im Bang's stories came into the hands of the translator, and he gives them now ... Read more

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  • A Geek in Korea

    Discovering Asia's New Kingdom of Cool

    by Daniel Tudor ...
    For every fan of K-Pop music, Korean Wave dramas and Kimchi—or anyone intrigued by Korea and Korean culture—A Geek in Korea is a hip, new guide to the land of the Samsung smartphone and Gangnam Style.Author Dan Tudor first arrived in Korea on the eve of the 2002 World Cup when South Korea played Italy in the finals. What he saw inspired him to return and work in Korea. He served as The Economist ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • South Korea

    The Enigmatic Peninsula

    by Mark Dake ...
    A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers’ gem of East Asia.For seventeen years, journalist, teacher, and coach Mark Dake has called South Korea home. Now, with his longtime Korean friend Heju, he sets out on a four-month, ten-thousand-kilometre road trip, determined to uncover the real country. From the electric street life of Seoul to the tense northern border, where ... Read more

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  • Nation Building in South Korea

    Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy

    by Gregg A. Brazinsky ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. Brazinsky contends that a distinctive combination ... Read more

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  • Contentious Kwangju

    The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present

    Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Kyung Moon Hwang ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of this seminal event and explains how the memory of Kwangju has ... Read more

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