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Questioning Minds Short Stories by Modern Korean Women WritersYung-Hee Kim / Kim Myŏng-sun / Na Hye-sŏk / Kim Wŏn-ju / Han Mu-suk / Kang sin-jae / Song Wŏn-hŭi / Yi Sun / Yi sŏk-pong / Ch'oe Yun / Pak Wan-sŏ
/2009Available 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 gender and kinship politics. All of the protagonists are women who face personal crises or defining moments in their lives as gender-marked beings in... -
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The DwarfCho Se-hee
/2006The dark side of South Korea's "economic miracle" emerges in The Dwarf , Cho Se-hui's enormously popular and critically acclaimed work. First published in 1978, it speaks to the painful social costs of reckless industrialization, even as it tellingly portrays the spiritual malaise of the newly rich... -
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A Distant and Beautiful PlaceKwija Yang
/2002Somewhere on the periphery of Seoul, between the modern metropolis and the traditional farming communities, lies a "distant and beautiful place," the neighborhood of Wonmi-dong. Here, a young couple from the city struggles to make a home for themselves; a hapless "salary man" is forced into door-to... -
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An Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature
/ /U.S.A./ Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction2017This revised, expanded anthology, compiled and edited by pioneering scholar and translator Peter H. Lee, offers a representative selection of traditional Korean literature. Its rich and diverse... -
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Under construction : the gendering of modernity, class, and consumption in the Republic of Korea
/ History2002Since the late 1960s, the lives of south Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social... -
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Modern Korean : an intermediate reader
/ // History2000Modern Korean breaks new ground in the field of Korean studies by providing students with a skillfully constructed text for intermediate-level Korean-language study. The text emphasizes the... -
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Min Yong-hwan : a political biography
// History2002The closing years of the Choson dynasty have received considerable attention from historians of Korea. Nevertheless, surprisingly few biographical studies have been written on the major Korean... -
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Century of the tigerone hundred years of korean culture in america 1903-2003
// History2003An anthology of essays, poetry, fiction and artwork by Korean Americans, celebrating 100 years of Korean immigration to the United States. -
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The wounded season
/ /U.S.A./ Literature - English and American literatures1998This volume features a guest-edited collection of writing from Korea - a country marked by the scars of foreign occupation, civil war, and authoritarian leadership. In compelling stories and essays,... -
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Readings in Modern Korean Literature (KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language)
/ / /U.S.A./ Language - Korean language - Textbooks, interpretation, conversation2004Readings in Modern Korean Literature will provide advanced students (those with at least four years of college-level training in Korean) with materials that will help them understand and appreciate...