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The 1.5 Generation
The 1.5 generation (Ilchom ose) refers to Koreans who immigrated to the United States as children. Unlike their first-generation parents and second-generation children born in the …
Brief Encounters
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. This anthology is a compilation of Westerners' accounts of their visits to Korea, originally published in books or newspapers …
Tae Kwon Do
"e;Clearly written, easily understoodone of the most significant contributions to the art of footand fist fighting. The Japan TimesTae Kwon Do is a fighting art which employs …
Grassroots Fascism
Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937-1945)-the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history-through the lens of ordinary Japanese …
Park Chung Hee Era
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough …
Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation
By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the failure thesis which …
Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia
The Enduring Legacies of the Global Financial Crisis in East Asia challenges the assumption that the global financial crisis had a limited structural impact on East Asian political …
Ranger
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the …
Korean Ceramics
Korean Ceramics: The Scholar's Vision, The Photographer's Eye has at its core a dialogue between Yangmo Chung—expert scholar and former director of the Korean National Museum—and …
Voices from the Korean War
"e;In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean …
Korean Moon Jars
The first English-language book to explore the history of the Korean moon jar and how leading potters now pay homage to its principles. The moon jar, or ‘dal-hang-ari’, as it is …