Korea and Its Futures : Unification and the Unfinished War. [ Unification and the Disruption of Identity in South Korea --; Nation, State, and the Idea of Unification: Speaking of the Unspeakable --; North Korean Everyday Life on Display --; Loss, Mourning, and Resentment: Han --; Divided Families --; Elementary Forms of Korean Historical Representation: School Textbooks --; Democracy and Unification: Student Protests --; Dissidence and Border Violations --; The Defectors --; Conclusion: Preparing for Unification: The Problem of Complicity and Difference]

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998, 1998. Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing ; grey cloth with gold lettering, in dustjacket with reproduction of Lee Bann's painting, "The Cardinal of Earth-Blood" ; tear to front of dustjacket ; very slight knock ; two illustrations ; xix, 316 pp., 22 cm. ; Contents: Introduction: Unification and the Disruption of Identity in South Korea --; Nation, State, and the Idea of Unification: Speaking of the Unspeakable --; North Korean Everyday Life on Display --; Loss, Mourning, and Resentment: Han --; Divided Families --; Elementary Forms of Korean Historical Representation: School Textbooks --; Democracy and Unification: Student Protests --; Dissidence and Border Violations --; The Defectors --; Conclusion: Preparing for Unification: The Problem of Complicity and Difference. ; "Despite the passage of over forty years since the official end of the civil war in Korea, the north and the south sections of the country remain technically at war. Roy Richard Grinker suggests that a fundamental obstacle to peace on the peninsula is that South Korea has become a nation in which nearly all aspects of economic, political, and cultural identity are defined in opposition to North Korea. He further demonstrates that in spite of its status as a sacred goal for all Koreans, the idea of unification threatens the world in which almost every South Korean has been born and raised." ; VG/G