James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People [hardcover] Richard Rutt [Jan 01, 1972]

James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People

Richard Rutt

Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch

The only Korean musicologist of international repute. Dr. Lee Hye-Ku has struggled over the past few decades to keep Korean traditional music from being swallowed up in the tide of Westernization.

Essays on Korean Traditional Music

Arts & Photography

Hye-ku Lee

Translated By Robert C. Provine

Music

Five decades of North American missionary work in Korea are revealed in this book, giving readers a glimpse into the profound struggle for cultural and spiritual identity that often accompanied the Christian missionaries' foray into unbaptized territory. Most could not make the necessary leap from their own backgrounds to their new home culture; a few did, and came away from the experience with a sharper perception of self, society, and the sometimes problematic nature of their work.

Challenged Identities: North American Missionaries in Korea, 1884 to 1934

History

Elizabeth Underwood

Asia

In May of 1592, nearly three hundred and fifty years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army aboard a thousand ships from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea's southern tip. Its objective: to conquer Korea, then China and then the whole of Asia.The Imjin War is the most comprehensive account ever published in English on this important event, so little known in the West. It begins with the political and cultural background of Korea, Japan, and China, discusses the diplomatic breakdown that led to the war, describes every major incident and battle from 1592 to 1598, and introduces a fascinating cast of characters along the way: Hideyoshi himself, Korea's admiral Yi Sun-sin, Chinese commander Zhao Chengxun, and kisaeng Chu Non-gae.

The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China

Hawley, Samuel

After the Korean War ended in 1953, South Korea's economic level skyrocketed, with per capita income rising to roughly 18 times the level of its northern neighbor. The causes of this change are complex, but this book investigates one of the more fundamental reasons for South Korea's economic miracle: the yogong, or young female factory workers. They produce the goods that have pushed Korea into another classification, and they have developed their own communities, with unique relationships, attitudes, and perspectives on the future.

Yogong: Factory Girl

Robert F. Spencer