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Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer

By: Young Kyun Oh

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Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer

By: Young Kyun Oh

In Engraving Virtue, Young Kyun Oh investigates the publishing history of the Samgang Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide to the Three Relations), a moral primer of Chosŏn (1392–1910), and traces the ways in which woodblock printed books contributed to shaping premodern Korea. Originally conceived by the court as a book with which to instill in its society Confucian ethics encased in the stories of moral heroes and heroines as filial sons, loyal subjects, and devoted wives, the Samgang Haengsil-to embodies various aspects of Chosŏn society. With careful examinations of its various editions and historical documents, Oh presents how the life of this book reflected the complicated factors of the Chosŏn society and how it became more than just a reading material.

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BRILL

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9004251960

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9789004251960

PARK Chan-wook

By: KIM Young-jin

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PARK Chan-wook

By: KIM Young-jin

PARK Chan-wook This book is an introductory guide to PARK Chan-wook, the 2004 Cannes Grand prix winner and one of the most acclaimed and popular Korean film directors. The book looks within with an insider's eyes and gropes roughly for the root and stems of cinematic world of PARK, who has achieved both critical and commercial success, performing stunts verging on the acrobatic between genre convention and directorial individuality. Korean Film Directors Created by the Korean Film Council, this series offers deep insight into key directors in Korean film, figures who are not only broadening the range of art and creativity found in Korean-produced commercial films but also gaining increasingly strong footholds in international markets. Each volume features: - critical commentary on films - extensive interview - biography - complete filmography

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197

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Seoul Selection

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8991913946

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9788991913943

The Specter of "the People"

Urban Poverty in Northeast China

By: Mun Young Cho

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The Specter of "the People"

Urban Poverty in Northeast China

By: Mun Young Cho

Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban unemployment, transforming the proletariat vanguard into a new urban poor. How do unemployed workers come to terms with their split status, economically marginalized but still rhetorically central to the way China claims to understand itself? How does a state dedicated to serving "the people" manage the poverty of its citizens? Mun Young Cho addresses these questions in a book based on more than two years of fieldwork in a decaying residential area of Harbin in the northeast province of Heilongjiang.Cho analyzes the different experiences of poverty among laid-off urban workers and recent rural-to-urban migrants, two groups that share a common economic duress in China's Rustbelt cities but who rarely unite as one class owed protection by the state. Impoverished workers, she shows, seek protection and recognition by making claims about "the people" and what they deserve. They redeploy the very language that the party-state had once used to venerate them, although their claim often contradicts government directives regarding how "the people" should be reborn as self-managing subjects. The slogan "serve the people" is no longer a promise of the party-state but rather a demand made by the unemployed and the poor.

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233

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Cornell University Press

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080146742X

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9780801467424

South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification

By: Sung-Wook Nam,Sang-Woo Rhee,Myongsob Kim,Young-Ho Kim,Yong-Sub Han,Young-Soon Chung,Seong-Ok Yoo

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South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification

By: Sung-Wook Nam,Sang-Woo Rhee,Myongsob Kim,Young-Ho Kim,Yong-Sub Han,Young-Soon Chung,Seong-Ok Yoo

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the United States over denuclearization and regime security, the South Korean government is focusing on economic development preparing for the day when the two Koreas are unified. This book will help scholars, activists and policy-makers from all over the world systematically understand the current diplomatic and security issues in the Korean peninsula.

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301

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Springer

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9811319901

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9789811319907

A History of Protestantism in Korea

By: Dae Young Ryu

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A History of Protestantism in Korea

By: Dae Young Ryu

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Protestant Christianity in Korea. It outlines the development of Christianity in Korea before Protestantism, considers the introduction of Protestantism in the late nineteenth century and its widening and profound impact, and goes on to discuss the situation up to the present. Throughout the book emphasises the importance of Protestantism for Korean national life, highlights the key role Protestantism has played in Korea’s social, political, and cultural development, including in North Korea whose first leader Kim Il Sung was the son of devout Protestant parents, and demonstrates how Protestantism continues to be a vital force for Korean society overall.

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267

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Routledge

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1000539024

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9781000539028

Transgression in Korea

Beyond Resistance and Control

By: Juhn Young Ahn

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Transgression in Korea

Beyond Resistance and Control

By: Juhn Young Ahn

Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea’s raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party, the criminal negligence of the owner and also the crew members of the sunken Sewol Ferry, as well as the political scandals of 2016, there has been much public debate about morality, transparency, and the law in South Korea. Yet, despite its prevalence in public discourse, transgression in Korea has not received proper scholarly attention. Transgression in Korea challenges the popular conceptions of transgression as resistance to authority, the collapse of morality, and an attempt at self- empowerment. Examples of transgression from premodern, modern, and contemporary Korea are examined side by side to underscore the possibility of reading transgression in more ways than one. These examples are taken from a devotional screen from medieval Korea, trickster tales from the late Chosŏn period, reports about flesheating humans, newspaper articles about same- sex relationships from colonial Korea, and films about extramarital affairs, wayward youths, and a vengeful vigilante. Bringing together specialists from various disciplines such as history, art history, anthropology, premodern literature, religion, and fi lm studies, the context- sensitive readings of transgression provided in this book suggest that transgression and authority can be seen as forming something other than an antagonistic relationship.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053779

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9780472053773

Book's by Young Kyun Oh

Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer

Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer

PARK Chan-wook

PARK Chan-wook

The Specter of "the People"

The Specter of "the People"

South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification

South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification

A History of Protestantism in Korea

A History of Protestantism in Korea

Transgression in Korea

Transgression in Korea

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