Korea : a very short introduction /

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbors China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons, the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture, the North as the home to one of the world's most repressive regim...

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Main Author: Seth, Michael J., 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Very short introductions ; 625.
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505 0 |a Creating a peninsular kingdom -- A Confucian society -- From kingdom to colony -- From colony to competing states -- Competing states, diverging societies -- Globalizing south, inward north. 
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