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Critical Readings on North and South Korea (3 Vols. SET)
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The Korean Peninsula is seldom out of the news. With a new leader in the North, a presidential election in the South, and with the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Korean War in July 2013, such attention will continue. Yet outside the narrow confines of scholarship and government, Korea, and especially North Korea, is relatively little known. This collection, drawing on Korean and foreign scholarship in English from the 1940s onwards, addresses the issues of war, peace and security, dictatorship and democracy, plenty and famine that have marked the peninsula since the end of the Pacific War. Some will find old friends, others new insights. All will learn about the complex world of modern Korea.
J.E.Hoare is a former member of the Research and Analysis Cadre of the British Diplomatic Service. He served in Seoul (1981-85), Beijing (1988-91) and finally as Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General in Pyongyang (2001-2). He is a former Research Associate of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and is currently Research Associate at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He has published extensively on both Korea and Japan, including Japan’s Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests (1994), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. III (1999) and with his wife Susan Pares, A Political and Economic Dictionary of East Asia (2005) and North Korea in the 21st Century (2005).
Scholars and students of modern East Asia, North and South Korea, Korean war, security in East Asia.