Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History - Hardcover

Cumings, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393040119 ISBN 13: 9780393040111

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

An authoritative, narrative chronicle of modern Korea focuses on the country's turbulent twentieth-century history, discussing its 1910 loss of independence, its years under Japanese rule, its division and the Korean War, and its postwar recovery and economic growth.

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Review:

Bruce Cumings traces the growth of Korea from a string of competing walled city-states to its present dual nationhood. He examines the ways in which Korean culture has been influenced by Japan and China, and the ways in which it has subtly influenced its more powerful neighbors. Cumings also considers the recent changes in the South, where authoritarianism is giving way to democracy, and in the North, which Cumings depicts as a "socialist corporatist" state more like a neo-Confucian kingdom than a Stalinist regime. Korea's Place in the Sun does much to help Western readers understand the complexities of Korea's past and present.

About the Author:

Bruce Cumings is director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393040119
• ISBN 13: 9780393040111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 527