Asia's
Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization
by Alice H. Amsden
Paperback from Oxford Press
Book Published: March, 1992
The Coldest War : A Memoir of Korea
by James Brady
Listed under Korean
War
The
Confucian Kingship in Korea
by Jahyun Kim Haboush
The
Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Twentieth-Century
Japan - The Emergence of a World Power, 4)
by Peter Duus
Book Description:
What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non- Western
colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings
a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's
acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows
how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic,
diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed
a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s. Duus maintains
that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and
the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing
Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and
each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes
justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the
abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword. While suggesting that Meiji
imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided
both model and context, Duus also argues that it was "backward imperialism"
shaped by a sense of inferiority vis--vis the West. Along with his detailed
diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that
illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of
the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves
and their fellow Asians.
Paperback: 498 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.26 x
8.99 x 6.00
Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition
(April 1998)
ISBN: 0520213610
Dangerous
Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
by Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi
Paperback from Routledge
Book Published: October, 1997
A
Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World
by Jahyun Kim Hoboush
Korea:
An Illustrated History From Ancient Times to 1945
by David Rees
Korea:
A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
by Keith Pratt and Richard Rutt
Korea
2010: The Challenges of the New Millennium (Significant Issues Series)
by Paul F. Chamberlin, Kim Kihwan
Paperback from Center for Strategic and International
Studies
Book Published: 01 September, 2001
Korea's
Place in the Sun : A Modern History
by Bruce Cumings
Bruce Cumings traces the growth of Korea from a string of competing
walled city-states to its present dual nationhood. He examines the ways
in which Korean culture has been influenced by Japan and China, and the
ways in which it has subtly influenced its more powerful neighbors. Cumings
also considers the recent changes in the South, where authoritarianism
is giving way to democracy, and in the North, which Cumings depicts as
a "socialist corporatist" state more like a neo-Confucian kingdom than
a Stalinist regime. Korea's Place in the Sun does much to help Western
readers understand the complexities of Korea's past and present. Amazon.com
Paperback: 527 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.02 x
9.22 x 6.08
Publisher: W W Norton & Co.; ; (February 1998)
ISBN: 0393316815 |
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Made
in Korea: Chung Ju Yung and the Rise of Hyundai
by Richard M. Steers
Hardcover from Routledge
Book Published: October, 1998
The
Making of Modern Korea: A History (Asia's Transformations)
by Adrian Buzo
Paperback from Routledge
Book Published: 01 June, 2002
Mao's Generals Remember Korea
by Xiaobing Li
Listed under North Korea
Count
Your Way Through Korea
A
New History of Korea
by Ki-Baik Lee, Edward J. Schultz (Translator), Edward W. Wagner (Translator)
Covers the history of Korea from ancient times to the 20th Century.
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.21 x 9.16 x 5.93
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; ; Reprint edition (December
1989)
ISBN: 067461576X
Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring,
1953
by S. L. A. Marshall
Listed under Korean
War
The
Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess
of Eighteenth Century Korea
by Hyegyonggung Hong Ssi, edited by Jahyun Kim Haboush
Memoirs
of a Korean Queen
by Lady Hong, edited by Choe-Wall Yang-Hi
>King Sejong the Great: The Light of Fifteenth Century Korea
by Young Key
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Korean Alphabet of 1446: Hunmin Chongum = Hwunmin Cengum
by Sek Yen Kim-Cho
Voices
from Another Place : A Collection of Works from a Generation Born in Korea
and Adopted to Other Countries
by Susan Soon-Keum Cox (Editor)
When
You Were Born in Korea
by Brian E. Boyd
Muye Dobo Tongji : The Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial
Arts of Ancient Korea
by Sang H. Kim, Park Je-Ga, Sang H. Kim (Translator)
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