Laying Claim to the Memory of May

Linda S Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• The Kwangju Uprising--"Korea's Tiananmen"--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a pea... Lees meer

The Red Decades

Vladimir Tikhonov

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and trav... Lees meer

Education Fever

Michael J Seth

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prospe... Lees meer

The Ilse

Wayne Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• On January 13, 1903, the first Korean immigrants arrived in Hawai'i. Numbering a little more than a hundred individuals, this group represented the in... Lees meer

Dawn of Labor

Nohae Park

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae's first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty... Lees meer

Voices from the Straw Mat

Chan E Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• From its humble "straw mat" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, p'ansori has survived centuries of change and remains the primar... Lees meer

Invented Traditions in North and South Korea

Don Baker, Remco Breuker, Jan Creutzenberg, Keith Howard, Andrew David Jackson, Laurel Kendall

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions--cultural and histori... Lees meer

Flower of Capitalism

Olga Fedorenko

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads details contests over adve... Lees meer

Moral Authoritarianism

Shinyoung Kwon

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states--the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea--by study... Lees meer

And So Flows History

Moo-Sook Hahn

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• A deeply compelling saga of love, jealously, honor, and greed, And So Flows History (Yôksanûn hûrûnda, 1947) depicts the relentless power of exterior ... Lees meer

Questioning Minds

Yung-Hee Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Available for the first time in English, the ten short stories by modern Korean women collected here touch in one way or another on issues related to ... Lees meer

Moral Authoritarianism

Shinyoung Kwon

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states--the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea--by study... Lees meer

Invented Traditions in North and South Korea

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions--cultural and histori... Lees meer

Imperatives of Care

Sonja M Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation's reproductiv... Lees meer

Imperatives of Care

Sonja M Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Korea, public health priorities in maternal and infant welfare privileged the new nation's reproductiv... Lees meer

Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way

Carl Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Tonghak, or Eastern Learning, was the first major new religion in modern Korean history. Founded in 1860, it combined aspects of a variety of Korean r... Lees meer

And So Flows History

Moo-Sook Hahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• A deeply compelling saga of love, jealously, honor, and greed, And So Flows History (Yôksanûn hûrûnda, 1947) depicts the relentless power of exterior ... Lees meer

Soldiers on the Cultural Front

Tatiana Gabroussenko

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• An understanding of contemporary North Korea's literature is virtually impossible without an investigation of its formative period, 1945-1960, which s... Lees meer

Divorce in South Korea

Yean-Ju Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• It may sound logical that individualistic attitudes boost divorce. This book argues otherwise. Conservative norms of specialized gender roles serve as... Lees meer

Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• The concept of security has undergone significant change in the past few decades. Traditionally thought of in terms of the state-centric, militarily f... Lees meer

Between the Streets and the Assembly

Yoonkyung Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Streets in Korea rarely go quiet without first having a public demonstration and Korean citizens are known as seasoned protestors, charting the course... Lees meer

Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea

Don Baker, Franklin Rausch

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Korea's first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on t... Lees meer

Dawn of Labor

Nohae Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae's first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty... Lees meer