Korea – July 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 7, 2014|Korea|0 comments

Female images of God in Christian worship : in the spirituality of Tongsunggido of the Korean church / MyungSil Kim. Exploring Korea : traditional and modern / edited by the Center for International Affairs. South Korea’s rise : economic development, power and foreign relations / UK Heo, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Terence Roehrig, US Naval War College. Innovation and global competition : the case of Korea / editors, Frederick

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Trial access to Asian Films Online from Alexander Street Press

By Jiyeon Wood|July 15, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, China and Inner Asia, Films and Sound Recordings, Japan, Korea, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

We have trial access to Asian Film Online Volumes I and II from Alexander Street Press until 15th August 2014. Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts.This will be useful for scholarship in Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, political science, postcolonial theory and criticism, anthropology, and linguistics. Asian Film Online: Volume I features more than 600 hours of film across the region with

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Korea – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 2, 2014|Korea|0 comments

Function-based spatiality and the development of Korean communities in Japan : a complex adaptive sytems theory approach / David Rands. Consolidation of democracy in South Korea? / Gabriel Jonsson. North Korea–US relations under Kim Jong Il : the quest for normalization? / Ramon Pacheco Pardo. Korean education in changing economic and demographic contexts / Hyunjoon Park, Kyung-keun Kim, editors. Death, mourning, and the afterlife in Korea : ancient to contemporary

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Democracy Index 2013

By Victoria Bird|June 13, 2014|Africa, China and Inner Asia, Development Studies, Japan, Korea, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

Today, the BBC have highlighted the newly published 6th edition of the Democracy Index, from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), focusing on France. The report reflects the situation, as perceived by the EIU at the end of 2013. You can download this report for free from the Economist Intelligence Unit, although you do have to register for access. The report highlights a broader stagnation in the progress of the spread

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Korea – May 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 5, 2014|Korea|0 comments

교학 한국사 대사전 / [편집인 변 태섭, 강 우철]. Ilseung beopgye-do wontong-gi : Master Gyunyeo’s commentary on the Dharma realm diagram of the one vehicle / from lectures by Master Gyunyeo translated into modern Korean by Choe Yeon-shik translated into English by Han Chang-ho, Choe Yeon-shik and Koh Seung-hak based on the Korean edition. An encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism / Ven. Hyewon and David A. Mason. Reflections of a Zen

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Korea – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2014|Korea|0 comments

Representing the cultural other : Japanese anthropological works on Korea / edited by Hyup Choi. Living on your own : single women, rental housing, and post-revolutionary affect in contemporary South Korea / Jesook Song. The Korean popular culture reader / Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, editors. An affair with Korea / Vincent S.R. Brandt. Evolving Asian culture gateways : the Korean wave and beyond / Su Jung Kim, Kalinga

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Korea – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 27, 2014|Korea|0 comments

Confucius in East Asia : Confucianism’s history in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam / Jeffrey L. Richey. The Korean wave : Korean popular culture in global context / edited by Yasue Kuwahara. Infected Korean language, purity versus hybridity : from the sinographic cosmopolis to Japanese colonialism to global English / By Koh Jongsok Translated by Ross King. Power, place, and state-society relations in Korea : neo-confucian and geomantic reconstruction

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Korea – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 4, 2014|Korea|0 comments

New challenges for maturing democracies in Korea and Taiwan / edited by Larry Diamond and Gi-Wook Shin. China’s internal and external relations and lessons for Korea and Asia / edited by Jung-Ho Bae and Jae H. Ku. The feasibility of a Korea-China FTA and its potential economic effects / Zhao Jin long. Sul / [written by Park Rock Darm, Lee Kun Wook translated, Park Jung-eun].  Korean abstract painting : a

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UN report on Human Rights in North Korea

By Victoria Bird|February 18, 2014|Korea, Law, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

The UN Report containing the findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was published yesterday. The report documents in great detail the wide-ranging array of crimes against humanity allegedly being committed in the country. “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” it states. The Commission will formally

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Korea – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 6, 2014|Korea|0 comments

On the formation of the upper monastic area of Seon Buddhist temples from Korea’s late Silla to the Goryeo era / Lee Seung-yeon. Visual politics and North Korea : seeing is believing / David Shim. The story of North Korea told by a North Korean refugee / Jang Jin Seong. Dialogue with North Korea? : preconditions for talking human rights with a hermit kingdom / Geir Helgesen and Hatla Thelle.

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