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Translingual Words
Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I, specific examples from global …
Rethinking Middle Powers in the Asian Century
The term "middle power" is conceptually fragile. Some scholars have even argued for abandoning it. This book argues that the concept needs to be analysed more profoundly and that …
Voices of Foreign Brides
Since the early 1990s, there has been a critical shortage of marriageable women in farming and fishing villages in Korea. This shortage, which has become a major social problem, …
Mask That Remembers
In Korea, a mask is never just a mask. For over a thousand years, the sacred tal masks have been Korea's most dangerous truth-tellers, its most powerful healers, and its bridge …
F-86A Sabre
Strap in alongside the Sabre pilots as they experienced the world's first large-scale jet-vs-jet combats. Brought to life with innovative tactical artwork and dramatic first-hand …
The Intimacy of Making
In The Intimacy of Making Swiss French photographer Hélène Binet takes us on a visual journey through a world of stone, walls and gardens that define and celebrate the Korean art …
Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets
The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Choson period (1700–1910) ushered in a …
Last Stand of Fox Company
"e;The authors of the bestselling Halsey's Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War's darkest moment."e; -Publishers Weekly …
A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction
This book accompanies KLEAR’s Integrated Korean text series. It contains nearly 1,000 activities on 160 of the most commonly used grammar patterns for beginning and intermediate …
Standardizing Empire
How the US military origins of global capitalism facilitated both South Korea's "e;economic miracle"e; and the decline of US industrial might The US military has become a …
Sabres Over MiG Alley
This is the story of the first jet versus jet war, the largest in number of victories and losses, and one of the few military bright spots in the Korean War. It tells how an …
To Acknowledge a War
Historians often refer to the Korean War as the forgotten war, but Edwards argues that in many respects it is a conflict that has been deliberately ignored for the past fifty …