Search Results: Catalog 70 - Korea from Joseph Valles - Books

Boston ; New York ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown and Company, 1998, 1998. Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing ; white and blue cloth, in white, blue, red and gold dustjacket ; small spot on front cover ; ISBN: 0316348163; LCCN: 98-66869 ; OCLC: 39736042 ; 236 pp., illustrated with photographic plates ; 24 cm. ; "A Korean-American recounts her fourteen years of abuse at the hands of her husband, the drug-addicted eldest son of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and reveals the corruption behind the religious facade of Moon's organization. " ; VG/VG

New York : Monthly Review Press, 1998., 1998. Fine. 266 pp., map ; 23 cm. ; pictorial paper wrappers ; cover art, "Family Business" by Kwon Yeo-Hyun ; ISBN: 0853459274 (pbk.); 0853459282; LCCN: 98-13451 ; OCLC: 38495069 ; FINE

Seoul, Korea : The Korea Foundation, 1998., 1998. Fine. 161 pp. ; yellow and black paper wrappers ; OCLC: 44086893 ; includes a chronology of Major Events (October 1 - November 30th, 1998) ; FINE

[Seoul, Korea] Research Center for Peace and Unification, 1998., 1998. Very Good. 138 pp. (numbered 501-639) ; green wrappers ; includes summary of events in August-September 1998 affecting North and South Korea and source documents ; VG

[Seoul, Korea] Research Center for Peace and Unification, 1999., 1999. Very Good. 165 pp. ; green wrappers ; includes summary of events in 1998 affecting North and South Korea and source documents for the year ; VG

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… Read More

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2000., 2000. Very Good. vii, 246 pp., [16] p. of plates : illustrated ; 24 cm. ; pictorial wrappers ; uncorrected page proof ; ISBN: 0815764359 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 00-8812 ; OCLC: 43751559 ; Contents: 1 Looking Backward 1 -- 2 The Power and Poverty of Ideology 12 -- 3 The Turning Point Economy 41 -- 4 The Leader, His Party, and His People 81 -- 5 The Military: Pillar of Society 105 -- 6 Social Control 127 -- 7 The Foreign Relations of a Hermit Kingdom 148 -- 8 Dealing with the DPRK 185 ; "Drawing on more than ten years of research—including interviews with two dozen North Koreans who made the painful decision to defect from their homeland—Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig explore what the leadership and the masses believe about their current predicament. Through dual themes of persistence and illusion, they explore North Korea's stubborn adherence to policies that have failed to serve the welfare of the people and, consequently, threaten the… Read More