Michael J. Seth (James Madison University)

Korea

A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses on answering several historical questions: what does it mean to be Korean? How did this nation evolve into today's sharply contrasting societies? And how does Korea fit into the larger narrative of world history?

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Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 110mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780198830771
• ISBN-10: 0198830777
• Artikelnr.: 57791896

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Seth is a professor of East Asian and world history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He has lived and worked in South Korea and is the author of Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2002) and North Korea: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is also the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
List of illustrations
Introduction
1: Creating a peninsular kingdom
2: A Confucian society
3: From kingdom to colony
4: From colony to competing states
5: Competing states, diverging societies
6: Globalizing south, inward north
Further reading
Index