Cultural History of Korea (HIST 590/EALC 563): Find Books

Korea has one of the most diverse religious cultures in the world today, with a range and breadth of religious practices virtually unrivaled by any other country. This volume in the Princeton Readings in Religions series is the first anthology in any language, including Korean.

This book is the English version of "Samguk Yusa," which records the tales of the Old Chosun Dynasty from Dangun to the period of the Three Kingdoms and even the historical facts omitted in "Samguk Sagi."

A Cultural History of Modern Korea is a good source for those who already have a good understanding of the culture and history of modern Korea.

The seasonal customs of Korea are the folk traditions of everyday life that have been repeated annually throughout the ages.

This is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Korean people, offering Western readers a synthesis of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the present.

An introduction to the history of East Asia from the earliest times to the present, suitable for use as a text in courses on East Asia. This edition includes more information on Daoism, pre-modern and modern Vietnam and Korea, contemporary China and Japan, and the role of women in these cultures.

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present

Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald’s widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years.

Culture and Customs of Korea artfully depicts the past and present in North and South Korea with chapters on the story of the Korean people, thought and religion, arts and literature, performing arts, daily life and folkways, life in a Korean village, life in urban Korea, and gender, marriage, and the lives of Korean women. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.

The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook tells the story of a warm and generous people who have retained their distinctive language and culture despite repeated foreign occupations, achieved a literacy rate of almost 100 percent, outscored nearly every other nation in science and math, and reshaped their devastated post-war economy into one of the four tigers of Asian economic growth.

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur.

In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.

The universal topics of life, death, love, hate, sex, loss of innocence, and other themes, are explored in fiction by 3 Korean writers.

This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century.

The history of Korea in the twentieth century has been a grim succession of oppressions, humiliations and betrayals.

This volume consists of 24 articles that are still considered valuable in the field as academic articles or critical essays that have appeared in the Korea Journal over the past 40 years.

In poetic language and exquisite paintings, PEACEBOUND TRAINS evokes the landscape and people of Korea and a special grandmother-granddaughter relationship.