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In three volumes
KEY FEATURE(S) Land (T’oji) is widely recognized as the most significant writings in modern Korean literature. An epic novel in five parts, it follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of the villagers of a traditional Korean farming community.
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, a period of turbulent changes in Korean history, the villagers are caught up in the struggles between the conservative and modernizing forces of their country... |
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Pak Chiwon
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi (‘The Jehol Diary’) by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate.
Pak Chiwon diarises the experiences of his remarkable overland journey on horseback from the northern border region of Korea to China’s imperial summer residence in Jehol. Having been commanded by Kin... |
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Joanna Elfving-Hwang
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
This book discusses perceptions of ‘femininity’ in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women’s fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring assoc... |
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F.A. McKenzie
KEY FEATURE(S) Author also of From Tokyo to Tiflis covering his personal experiences of the Russo-
Japanese War, McKenzie was an accomplished writer and knew how to tell a good yarn. Yet in the context of today’s socio-political changes on the peninsula and elsewhere the opportunity for a reappraisal of the Japanese occupation of Korea as observed in The Tragedy of Korea could be seen to be both timely and relevant.
First published in 1908 after some ten years’ occupation of Korea by Japan (formal annexation as part of the Japanese empire announced in 1910), F.A.McKenzie’s strident study opens with the words: ‘I ... |
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Si-woo Lee
KEY FEATURE(S) The author’s now celebrated quest, through narrative and photography, to capture today’s built and natural environment and way of life along the Min Tong Line (Demilitarized Zone – DMZ) separating the two Koreas, is both a stunning literary and photographic achievement.
Supported by 150 colour photographs, the book by one of Korea’s renowned photographers who is also a well-known peace activist, takes the reader from Chulwon in the east to Kosung in the west, interwe... |
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Won-oh Choi
SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Published in full colour throughout, this highly engaging volume - the first of its kind in English - by one of Korea’s leading scholars on comparative mythology, provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to individual destiny, love and family, the birth of heroes, the universe and ghosts, gods and exorcists. The illustrations comprise a wide variety of old Korean art, including rare shamanist paintings, as well as some contemporary paintings.
The text is divided into two parts: (1) The Bridge Connecting This Life and Eternity, which includes the story of Daebyeol-wang and Sobyeol-wang’s role in the origin of the world, and (2) Humanistic M... |
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Selected Papers from the British Association for Korean Studies BAKS Papers series, 1991–2004. In two volumes
J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares
CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES, PYONGYANG, 2001-2002
Established in 1982, the British Association for Korean Studies has published nine sets of Papers in the period 1991–2004 – the outcome of conferences, study days and workshops. The themes of Korea pa... |
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From Social Darwinism to ‘Socialism with a Buddhist Face’
Owen Miller and Vladimir Tikhonov
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume concentrates on translations of Han Yongun’s principal non-literary works, which are published here in English for the first time, focusing on his ideas for the revitalization of Korean Buddhism in the modern world, the nature of Buddhism as a religion, a critique of atheist movements fashionable among the communists of his time, together with his memoirs of his early life and travels.
One of Korea’s most eminent Buddhists and political activists in the independence movement during the long years of Japan’s colonization of his country, Han Yongun – sobriquet ‘Manhae’ (1879-1944), wa... |
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Riding the Wave
EDITED by Keith Howard
AHRB RESEARCH CENTRE, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Korean popular music has in the last decade become a significant model for youth culture throughout Asia. Yet, although the Korean music industry is both vibrant and massive, this is the first book-le... |
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Francis Mullany
This volume is the first of its kind to explore the vast heritage of Korean brush and ink paintings, in particular during the classical period, which runs from the mid-seventeenth to the end of the ni... |
