4,935円 This book contends that the long history of America’s interaction with Korea started with the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation in 1882, and with the establishment of the Seward-Shufeldt Line. William Seward and Robert Shufeldt shared the same vision of achieving the...

1,326円 Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders? Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people sear...

2,588円 Nuclear Showdown published by Asia expert, Gordon Chang, was of the first books to exploire the full extent of the North Korean nuclear threat, its origins, international implications, and solutions. The United States is the mightiest nation in history, yet for six decades one of the world's weak...

2,671円 On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'�tat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists and citizens were ar...

0円 This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and th...

111円 A Presbyterian missionary gives a rare eye-witness account of 19th century Korea This eBook edition of Korean Sketches by James Scarth Gale, originally published in 1898, is annotated with historical background and contains detailed Table Of Contents and Navigation What's In The Book First Impres...

9,285円 Sul’s history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West. Ginseng emerged as a major international commodity in the seventeenth century, when the East India Company ...

2,861円 South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea endures: today it is a boisterous democracy, a vibrant market economy, a tech pow...

3,274円 在光鮮亮麗的背後，我們忽略這個國家的歷史陰暗面， 面對困境，他們是追尋驕陽的國度。 冷戰史權威學者，以大眾口吻和鮮明的文字意象，融合他自己與朝鮮人的接觸經驗， 綜合政治經濟學觀點 探討自十九世紀末，經歷日本、美國勢力， 朝鮮半島上的獨裁者如何在大國之間找到生存之道？ 群眾運動如何推動韓國向民主體制轉型...

4,807円 Zulawnik focuses on the broad concept of ‘controversy’ and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia. The research methodology is exemplified through a case study in the form of the author’s translation of the best-selling Japanese graph...

11,143円 Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888–1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history, language, and literature, completing the first tra...

1,856円 **'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna Fifield HOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE?** In the early 2000s, A...