Korea: A Very Short Introduction

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Seth, Michael J. 저자(글)

Oxford University Press, USA · 2020년 03월 29일

책 소개

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the world's most repressive regimes, at once both bizarre and menacing.

This Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region. Michael Seth considers what it means to be Korean, and analyses how the various peoples of the Korean peninsula became one of the world's most homogeneous nations, before exploring how this nation evolved, in a single lifetime, into today's sharply contrasting societies. He also discusses how Korea fits into the larger narrative of both East Asian and world history, economically, politically, and socially.


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작가정보

저자(글) Seth, Michael J.

Michael J. Seth is a professor of East Asian and world history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He has lived and worked in South Korea and is the author of Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2002) and North Korea: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is also the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History (Routledge, 2016).

목차

• Chapter Page
  List of illustrations xv
  List of maps xvii
  Introduction 1
  1. Creating a peninsular kingdom 5
  2. A Confucian society 27
  3. From kingdom to colony 47
  4. From colony to competing states 69
  5. Competing states, diverging societies 87
  6. Globalizing south, inward north 107
  Chronology 127
  Further reading 129
  Index 133

기본정보

ISBN	9780198830771 ( 0198830777 )
발행(출시)일자	2020년 03월 29일
쪽수	160쪽
크기	107 * 170 * 10 mm / 113 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어