The Koreans: Contemporary Politics And Society--second Edition - Hardcover

Macdonald, Donald Stone

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9780813309668: The Koreans: Contemporary Politics And Society--second Edition

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ISBN 10: 0813309662 ISBN 13: 9780813309668

Publisher: Westview Press, 1990

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In this revised edition of his survey, Donald Macdonald examines East Asia's fastest-developing but least-understood nation. He has updated his analysis of Korean politics and society to explain the dramatic South Korean political developments of the past two years.

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About the Author:

The late Donald Stone Macdonald was research professor emeritus of Korean studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Donald N. Clark is professor of history and director of international studies at Trinity University. The late Donald Stone Macdonald was research professor emeritus of Korean studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Donald N. Clark is professor of history and director of international studies at Trinity University.

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Georgetown professor Macdonald's survey of Korean history, society, culture, international relations, politics, economics, and the reunification question is comprehensive and up-to-dateand just in time for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. But at times, it is too much survey and too little substance (e.g., the history of the decades of Japanese occupation and the Korean War is particularly weak). Also, in support of the author's optimistic outlook on prospects for reunification, his minimizing of the differences between North and South Korea is overdone. Most appropriate as a text or supplementary reader for an undergraduate survey course. Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham,
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