Views on Korean Social History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Views on Korean Social History write by James B. Palais. This book was released on 1998. Views on Korean Social History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A New History of Korea
A New History of Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New History of Korea write by Ki-baik Lee. This book was released on 1988-03-15. A New History of Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. The most widely read and respected general history, A New History of Korea (Han’guksa sillon) was first published in 1961 and has undergone two major revisions and updatings. Translated twice into Japanese and currently being translated into Chinese as well, Ki-baik Lee’s work presents a new periodization of his country’s history, based on a fresh analysis of the changing composition of the leadership elite. The book is noteworthy, too, for its full and integrated discussion of major currents in Korea’s cultural history. The translation, three years in preparation, has been done by specialists in the field.
Korea's Pastimes and Customs
Korea's Pastimes and Customs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Korea's Pastimes and Customs write by I-hwa Yi. This book was released on 2006. Korea's Pastimes and Customs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book explores the favorite pastimes and customs of the Korean people under the 'Great Empire' from the late 14th century to 1910, when Korea was occupied by Japan. Some of the popular games discussed include Baduk (the Korean version of 'Go', a strategic board game for two players), Janggi (the Korean version of chess) and Yutnori (a game played with four short sticks). The author also discusses games played by young boys (e.g. flying kites) and young girls (e.g. hide-and-seek), men (e.g. archery) and women (e.g. seesaw), and pastimes enjoyed by both sexes (e.g. tug of war). Lee examines the origin of family names and common people's obsession with genealogy during the Joseon dynasty. He also discusses the important ceremonies celebrating milestones in one's life as well as ceremonies associated with various holidays on the calendar. The last segment of the book is devoted to people's interest in fortune-telling. The author discusses behaviors that were considered taboo and the various ways people tried to predict their future.
Introduction to Korean History and Culture
Introduction to Korean History and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Korean History and Culture write by Andrew C. Nahm. This book was released on 1993. Introduction to Korean History and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Korean War
The Korean War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Korean War write by Bruce Cumings. This book was released on 2011-07-12. The Korean War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.
