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 | | Korea and East Asia: The Story of a Phoenix by Kenneth B. Lee ISBN-10: 9780275958237 ISBN-10: 0-275-95823-X ISBN-13: 9780275958237 ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95823-7 Hardcover 1997-06-30 Praeger Publishers Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Korea has had a long, great civilization, with four "golden ages." Destruction caused by foreign powers has failed to extinguish the Korean spirit for survival. Korea, at least its southern part, is at the threshold of another golden age, despite the handicap of being a divided nation. To understand Korea's present situation, one must look back at many thousands of years of Korean history. The purpose of this study is to look squarely at that history, including the atrocities committed against Koreans by several countries, especially Japan in the periods of 1592-1598 and 1895-1945. Some of the questions addressed in this study are: How did Koreans rebuild their country time after time, following destruction by foreign invaders? How could Koreans, in recent years, rebuild their economy in such a short time? What motivates them? Why is North Korea so different from South Korea? What is the potential of Korea in the twenty-first century? Why do Koreans have such difficulty unifying their country? | ||
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Emotional, useful, but biased Ken makes a good attempt to write a history book on Korea and her people, but writes it like a Korean patriot trying to make the country sound bigger then it actually is. He's obviously read the Samguk Yusa and Samguk Sagi and other seminal works, but he makes obvious historical mistakes, doesn't get his details right and seemingly fills historical details by inserting his own opinion. Ki-Baek Lee's book on Korean History is much less colorfully written, but sounds much more unbiased and accurate. There are some gems in this book that will be helpful to the educated reader as many other Korean History books don't cover the details covered in this book, but as a whole, this book will give the uneducated reader, who cannot shift through the half guesses and wishful thinking of the author, the wrong idea. | ||