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Author : Elizabeth Keith,Elspet Keith Robertson Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Korea
ISBN : 9791188990726
Author : Carter J. Eckert
Publisher : Harvard Korea Institute
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015001367540
This is the most reliable and popular history of Korea available in English. The tumultuous developments of the modern era receive the greatest coverage, but the book's balanced treatment of traditional Korea emphasizes cultural events as integrally related to the political, social, and economic evolution of this ancient nation.
Author : Brother Anthony of Taizé
Publisher : Seoul Selection
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781624120077
Homer B. Hulbert and James S. Gale, two of the most famous North American missionaries to come to Korea in the 1880s, were very fond of ghost stories, but for years the Korean scholars they met swore that no such stories existed in Korea. Eventually, they discovered that Korea, too, had a plentiful supply of ghosts and spirits, celebrated in many eerie tales. However, because the stories had seemed too frivolous or were connected with shamanism and Buddhism, the scholars had been ashamed to talk about them. A main source of these stories were collections of yadam. These were a form of short tale, especially popular in the Joseon period. Whereas Confucian classics were the gateway to officialdom, yadam offered an escape valve, dealing with things much closer to daily life. The stories told there were about individuals who were not always admirable paragons of Confucian virtue; rather, they were often artful dodgers who managed to escape from tricky situations; survive traps; deal with ghosts, spirits, and nine-tailed foxes; and even get rich in the process. As we celebrate the one hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Hulbert and Gale, the present selection of Korean ghost stories—nostalgic for their echoes of the lost world of old Korea and its many ghosts—is offered for the pleasure of readers in the twenty-first century, one hundred years after their original publication.
Author : Charles Allen Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000005455
This book, first published in 1932, was written by a Western expert on Korea, and was the first to thoroughly investigate and document the old religious practices of Korea. No book like this could be written again from original sources, for all of the data has passed away, and archival records are not necessarily complete. It is a key text in the study of Korean religion.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004214002
Korea's traditional love poetry is little known in the West. This anthology contains examples of all genres: vernacular to long lyrical poems. A witty informative commentary links the poems and sets them in context.
Author : Brother Anthony of Taizé
Publisher : Seoul Selection
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781624120725
Korea’s most widely loved romantic tales : Chunhyang and Sim Cheong There are not many old Korean love tales, but everyone knows the story of Chunhyang. In 1892, the first Korean to visit Paris, Hong Jong-u, helped publish a French version of the story of Chunhyang. Titled “Fragrant Springtime” (the meaning of “Chunhyang”), it is the first Korean story ever published in a western language. A couple of years later, a second, more developed novel set in Korea was published, “ A Dead Tree Blossoms.” It includes parts of the story of Sim Cheong and her blind father, but is very different in many unexpected ways. In 1919 an English translation of it was published in the US, but nobody noticed it. In this new book, the French version of “Chunhyang” has been translated into English and is published with the 1919 English text of “A Dead Tree Blossoms” and a couple of other Korean love tales translated a hundred or more years ago. Interestingly, the two main stories both express sharp criticism of corrupt officials and a strong concern for social justice.
Author : Elizabeth Keith,Elspet Keith Robertson Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033814679
Author : Lee Mosol MD MPH
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781664130685
Ancient History of Korea. Second Edition is a thesis that Dr. Lee presents to the worldly scholars in every sectors. Though Chinese history has that the legendary Gija () went to Joseon at the end of Shang dynasty(; c. 1046 BC) and came back to the west Zhou within few years, no one has yet confirmed the birth place of Joseon. Korean had used the standard method of studying history, but couldn’t find it. He convinced that Chinese concealed the facts and spread out false information. Korean used a wrong method to find facts concealed by the criminals. He applied a new methodology with a series of syllogism and found out the root. The founding father of the Ancient Korea conducted the epic flood. The mobster killed him and declared the Xia dynasty in the birth place of the Yellow River Civilization. They buried Old Korean History. He presents a new method to study history written under ideographs and defined that History as THE MOTHER OF ALL SCIENCES AND LIBERAL ARTS. He went one step further and emphasizes that not the written records alone, but the Reasoning is the essential element in the forensic science and to study the NEA history.
Author : Elizabeth Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Korea
ISBN : 8949901072
Author : Lee Mosol
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781499054729
This is a sister copy of the Ancient History of Manchuria under the same premises as the ancient scriptures of Korean history had been destroyed by the invaders. With this premise, Mosol starts to explore many issues after the Han invasion to Manchuria. He tackles lots of disputed issues that had been under the thick fog, analyzingthem in depth. Many issues relating with ancient Korean history are discussed. He proposes many new theories. The most striking new findings are that all of Three Kingdoms originated from Manchuria. Wei (??) is the descendant of the original Ye (?) people who settled around the Bohai Bay (???) under the leadership of Namryeo (??). They were close neighbors with Baekjae and were the dominant seafarers. The most disputed topic engraved in the Stele was in the Liaodong Peninsula. It is a fresh look in the academic sense for other scholars. Lee Mosol, MD, MPH
Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393347531
"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward. In the late 1990s South Korea survived its most severe economic crisis since the Korean War, forcing a successful restructuring of its political economy. Suffering through floods, droughts, and a famine that cost the lives of millions of people, North Korea has been labeled part of an "axis of evil" by the George W. Bush administration and has renewed its nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world.
Author : Tae Hung Ha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Folk literature, Korean
ISBN : IND:39000002787898
Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609800383
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he drifts toward a small house in Kalmoe, where he and Yoon Hee once stole a few fleeting months of happiness while fleeing the authorities. In the company of her diaries, he relives and reviews his life, trying to find meaning in the revolutionary struggle that consumed their youth—a youth of great energy and optimism, victim to implacable history. Hyun Woo weighs the worth of his own life, spent in prison, and that of the strong-willed artist Yoon Hee, whose involvement in rebel groups took her to Berlin and the fall of the wall. With great poignancy, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questions—the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causes—while depicting a generation that sacrificed youth, liberty, and often life, for the dream of a better tomorrow.
Author : Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520943780
This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.
Author : Harold Hakwon Sunoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781425709488