Author : Nancy Abelmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1996-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0520204182
"This book is almost alone in the literature on Korea for the sweep and sensitivity with which Abelmann situates peasants in the terrain of contested history—which I would describe as what the peasants know in their bones, versus what the state and the landlords wish them to believe."—Bruce Cumings, Northwestern University
Author : Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618809172
Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.
Author : Elaine H. Kim
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781889876146
Distributed by Temple University Press for the Asian American Writers' Workshop. In this ground-breaking collection of poetry and fiction Korean American literary artists write from and about unexpected places-landscapes and mindscapes of alienation, obsession, conflict, and belonging. They attest to the tension between habitation within and movement across strange terrains, communities, and languages. Author note: Elaine H. Kim is Professor of Asian American Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-author of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Visual Art as well as Executive Producer of the video, Labor Woman (Asian Women United of California, 2002). Laura Hyun Yi Kang is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women.
Author : Elaine H. Kim
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781889876146
Poems and stories from a new generation of writers
Author : Won Park
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Korea
ISBN :
Author : Nancy Abelmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520085909
"This book is almost alone in the literature on Korea for the sweep and sensitivity with which Abelmann situates peasants in the terrain of contested history--which I would describe as what the peasants know in their bones, versus what the state and the landlords wish them to believe."--Bruce Cumings, Northwestern University
Author : Andrew Jhu
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Families
ISBN : 9781467551939
Stories of Korean Americans who long to see their families in North Korea.
Author : Lauren St. John
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1440638640
When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. But her grandmother and others working at Sawubona insist that the giraffe is just a myth. Martine is not so sure, until one stormy night when she looks out her window and locks eyes with Jemmy, a young silvery-white giraffe. Why is everyone keeping Jemmy’s existence a secret? Does it have anything to do with the rash of poaching going on at Sawubona? Martine needs all of the courage and smarts she has, not to mention a little African magic, to find out. First-time children’s author Lauren St. John brings us deep into the African world, where myths become reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend.
Author : Elizabeth Hervey Stephen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442280867
South Korea’s Demographic Dividend: Echoes of the Past or Prologue to the Future? weaves together the compelling story of social and demographic effects of the economic miracle in South Korea. This exploration of social change examines the demographic dividend: a window of time when a large percentage of a country’s population is in the working ages as a result of low fertility and declining mortality. The working-age population benefits from a relatively small dependent population as the size of the elderly cohort is small and the percentage of children is decreasing. This allows the working-age cohort to amass savings and increase productivity. But what happens when that demographic dividend comes to a close and the working age population must support a large elderly population? For centuries South Koreans relied on the intergenerational Confucian contract whereby parents supported children with the reciprocal expectation that children would support their parents in their older years. In South Korea’s Demographic Dividend Dr. Stephen examines what happens to families—and the larger society— when this contract is broken. The book concludes with proposed policies that address the maintenance of social cohesion in light of structural changes in the personal and public spheres as a result of Korea’s unprecedented economic growth.
Author : Kyubyong Park
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1462910300
My First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words. The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Korean Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Korean speech, to introduce core elements of Korean culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages. Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes, and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Hangeul, as well as in its Romanized form. With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the nearly 80 million people worldwide that speak Korean!
