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The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
Jahyun Kim Haboush (Ed.)
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Description for The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLC; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Choson Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after the Manchu invasions of 1627 ... Read more
The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Choson Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after the Manchu invasions of 1627 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
502g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172288
SKU
V9780231172288
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About Jahyun Kim Haboush (Ed.)
JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940-2011) was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her Columbia University Press publications include A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597-1600: The Writings of Kang Hang (2013); Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Choson, 1392-1910 (2009); The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yongjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001); and A ... Read more
Reviews for The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
As the first work to thoroughly examine the formation of the Korean nation before the modern era, The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation is an enormous contribution to scholarship on Korean and East Asian history and to the study of nations and nationalism throughout the world. It is certain to cement JaHyun Kim Haboush's ... Read more