The radical empathy of Min Jin Lee

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The radical empathy of Min Jin Lee

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Article: http://honisoit.com/2018/05/the-radical-empathy-of-min-jin-lee/
Journal: honisoit
Issued Date: May 09, 2018
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: AUSTRALIA
City: Sydney
Book: 파친코
Writer: Lee Min Jin
Translator: LEE Mee-jeong

About the Author

Lee Min Jin
Birth : 1968 ~ -
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Min Jin
Family Name : Lee
Korean Name : 이민진
ISNI : 0000000047748236
Works : 41

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English(English)

The Korean-Japanese professor Kang Sang Jung wrote that Zainichi, or the Korean-Japanese, were “nothing short of the ‘dregs of history’” in popular Japanese consciousness. Korean-American author Min Jin Lee is trying to change that. In Pachinko, her second novel about Korean identity, she charts the experience of four generations of one Korean Zainichi family—starting in 1911 under Japanese colonial rule in Korea, through migration to Osaka in 1933, up until 1989 at the tail end of Japan’s economic boom. ...

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Korean(한국어) Book Available
파친코
Lee Min Jin et al / 이민진 / 2018
English(English) Book Available
Free Food for Millionaires
Lee Min Jin et al / 이민진 / 2017
Italian(Italiano) Book Available
La moglie coreana
Lee Min Jin / 이민진 / 2018