Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Dougla...
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full st...
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The New History of Korean Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Throughout its 4,000-year history, Korea has created a vibrant and unique culture. Unfortunately, many believe it developed solely due to China's...
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A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction SelectionLibrary Journal Top Ten Book of the Year!The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il’s kidnapping ...
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Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."—Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review Korea has endured a "fract...
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Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country f...
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Korea: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its re...
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The Korean War in World History / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generati...
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Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war....
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A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peace...
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A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Kor...
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A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from N...
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Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century
HardcoverOriginal price $96.00 - Original price $96.00Original price $96.00$102.99$102.99 - $102.99Current price $102.99| /Korean History in Maps is a beautifully presented, full-color atlas covering all periods of Korean history from prehistoric times to the present ...
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Korea: A History
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /This book is a comprehensive account of Korean history from early times to December 2020. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781503629462 Media Type: Hardc...
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Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Belonging in a House Divided chronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, pos...
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New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.Product DetailsI...
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped...
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing ...
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The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan’s civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. ...
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Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, inc...
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Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women' S Rights Worldwide
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." --Publishers Weekly One of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023" An e...
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Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616-1911
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Remaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations dur...
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Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways Between Berkeley and Seoul
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student markets--and how university financials shape students' lives. The popular ima...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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