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Between Dreams and Reality
From the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, millions of Korean men from all walks of life trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the …
Approaches to Chan, Son, and Zen Studies
A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Son, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of …
Han Unbound
This book reveals how South Korea was transformed from one of the poorest and most agrarian countries in the world in the 1950's to one of the richest and most industrialized …
The Wood Bracelet
Rival Reputations
Charting the turbulent history of US-North Korean affairs from the 1960s through to 2010, Rival Reputations explores how past incidents and crises can be relied upon to help …
Asia Struggles with Democracy
Since 1974, when the current wave of democratisation began, the movement towards democracy in Asia has remained limited. Many countries in Asia, in fact, are not making a decisive …
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular …
Between Ally and Partner
China and South Korea have come a long way since they were adversaries. The arc of their relationship since the late 1970s is an excellent model of East-West cooperation and, at …
Korean Mind
Today, South Korea as an economic, technological, and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war, poverty and political unrest? And how can that success …
