Kenneth B. Lee

Korea and East Asia

The Story of a Phoenix

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Korea has had a long, great civilization, with four golden ages. Destruction caused by foreign powers has failed to extinguish the Korean spirit for survival. Korea, at least its southern part, is at the threshold of another golden age, despite the handicap of being a divided nation. To understand Korea's present situation, one must look back at many thousands of years of Korean history. The purpose of this study is to look squarely at that history, including the atrocities committed against Koreans by several countries, especially Japan in the periods of 1592-1598 and 1895-1945. Some of the questions addressed in this study are: How did Koreans rebuild their country time after time, following destruction by foreign invaders? How could Koreans, in recent years, rebuild their economy in such a short time? What motivates them? Why is North Korea so different from South Korea? What is the potential of Korea in the twenty-first century? Why do Koreans have such difficulty unifying their country?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780275958237
• ISBN-10: 027595823X
• Artikelnr.: 25567184

Autorenporträt

Kenneth B. Lee has held positions as chairman and professor of the Korean Department, Chief Research Division, and dean of the Germanic Language School of the U.S. Defense Language Institute./e Born in southern Korea and raised in northern Korea, he studied at Korea University, New York University and Stanford University, and received his PhD from the University of Southern California. He has also been Professor of East Asian Studies at Chapman University and Program Chief of Korean and Japanese Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has published widely on Korea.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Introduction Acknowledgments The Early Period of Korea The Early Beginnings and Racial Origins of Korea Early Korean Kingdoms Noted in Mythological Tales Early Korea and China, 200 BC
700 AD Korea and Early Japan, 200 BC
700 AD The Early Middle Period: Unified Silla, Palhae, and Koryõ Kingdoms, 668
1392 Unified Silla, 668
935 AD; and Pal
hae (P'o
hai), 698
926 AD Korean Kingdoms of Silla and Palhae (P'o
hai) The First Half of the Koryõ Dynasty to the Twelfth Century The Second Half of Koryõ: The Warring Period The First Half of the Chosõn Kingdom
Li Dynasty, 1392
1650 The Early Li Dynasty and Korea's Fourth Golden Age, 1395
1592 The Chosõn Kingdom's Foreign Relations and Foreign Invasions The Second Half of the Chosõn Kingdom
Li Dynasty: 1650
1910 The Gradual Decline of the Li Dynasty The Last Forty Years of the Li Dynasty: 1870
1910 Japanese Occupation and Rule of Korea: 1910
1945 Establishment of the Colonial Government Korea's Fight for Independence and Wartime International Conferences on Korea South and North Koreas: A Divided Nation Period of Occupational Governments of the United States and the Soviet Union Korea Before and During the Korean War: 1948
1953 South Korea: 1950
1990s North Korea: 1950
1990s The Arms Race and Unification Efforts of the Two Koreas National Securities of Both South and North Korea Unification Efforts by International Organizations and South and North Koreas Future Prospects of Unification and Potentiality for Korea Chronology Bibliography Index