Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward. In the late 1990s South Korea survived its most severe economic crisis since the Korean War, forcing a successful restructuring of its political economy. Suffering through floods, droughts and a famine that cost the lives of millions of people, North Korea has been labelled part of an "axis of evil" by the current Bush administration and has renewed its nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world.
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Bruce Cumings traces the growth of Korea from a string of competing walled city-states to its present dual nationhood. He examines the ways in which Korean culture has been influenced by Japan and China, and the ways in which it has subtly influenced its more powerful neighbors. Cumings also considers the recent changes in the South, where authoritarianism is giving way to democracy, and in the North, which Cumings depicts as a "socialist corporatist" state more like a neo-Confucian kingdom than a Stalinist regime. Korea's Place in the Sun does much to help Western readers understand the complexities of Korea's past and present.
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"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating... Rather like Korea itself." - New York Times Book Review
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I was warned against Prf. Cumings and his "unwholesome" views by some credible and respectable people. But when I asked them if they had actually read this work, I found out, as I had already suspected, that not one of them had! Naturally, I HAD TO satisfy my curiosity about this infamous author. AND I AM SO GLAD I DID. I know more for having read it. And reading it was so enjoyable.
Indeed, one of the most impressive aspects of this book is that it is so WELL WRITTEN. His prose is stylish and elegant. Do not expect of him the tedious and ponderous grandiosity adopted by the run-of-the-mill historians. His sentences are precise, energetic, and fluid.
And what's more, I was charmed by his irrepressible wit. Indeed, it rendered reading through the all too many dreadful passages in Korea's history somewhat less unpleasant. Yes, he is definitely opinionated (and isn't that the whole point of a historian's writing about alleged facts anyway?) but very charmingly so. His refreshing candor and avowed passions for his beloved subject is disarming, and touching.
As for the contents, they were shocking, to say the least. Take it from a Korean American who attended the draconian South Korean schools during the Park Chung-Hee regime; one becomes VERY skeptical when it comes to Korean "history". And I say as a skeptic that he has dug up some interesting facts, and I do believe that he did not manufacture them. Compared to the sloppily documented (if at all) slop they gave me in schools and the sleazy, bogus stuff circulating in Korean periodicals and papers, this version of history is far more plausible. And definitely possible - actually, make that probable - and certainly more compellingly presented.
Also of interests are his sources.
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Von Ein Kunde
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A page turner for anyone interested in Korean and East Asian history, culture or politics. Not overly detailed or too broad, Cummins book is elucidating and eye-opening, shedding light on Korea's arcane and ancient history and culture, historical relationship with China and Japan, and recent rise to industrial power. Further revealing is America's involvement and culpability in Korea's division, its ensuing war, and establishment of South Korea's corrupt and undemocratic quasi-puppet gov't. The unfairly demonized North Korean regime is also given a fair shake, as it apears that America's paranoid sentiments towards anything communist often made her the threatening and bellicose super-power, rather than the other way around. Although America's cold-war policy led to it's post-war occupation of S.Korea, alliance with Japan, Korea's former colonizers, and support of military strongmen composed of former Japanese military officers, this ironically flamed the fires of left-wing grass-roots movements and anti-American sentiment in Korea, evident even to this day.
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Von Ein Kunde
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Mr. Cumings is one of foreign historians I belive, and this book again quite satisfies me. Especially, his international, dialectic pespectives help me understand complex dynamics of two Koreas. Well, I have learned much from reading this one, and thanks to his interesting narrative techniques, I enjoyed it a lot, too. As a scholar of South Korea, I want to recommend this book to everybody, not only foreign intellectuals interested in Korea, but also some of South Koreans who have not been released yet from simple, one-sided historical myths about Modern Korea.
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Von Ein Kunde
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THIS IS MY SECOND ATTEMPT AT A REVIEW AS I DON'T KNOW IF I DID IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! This is a great and readable history and cultural background. I recommend it strongly. It is as readable as you could wish, an it gives outsiders like me (non-Korean) a feeling that I can understand the situation a bit. I had virtual strangers see it whilst I was in Pyongyang (my second visit) a week ago, and say, hey, isn't that a great book! I agreed that yes, it really is a great book. In fact, I am just ordering a replacement because I gave mine away. Not many books I spend money on twice. You can just open it anywhere and start reading, and you'll get picked up and carried along. This man can write. (Wish I could say that about some of the other non-fiction authors in the tottering pile I have waiting for me to read them.) Incidentally, I also bought his War and Television and found that fascinating too (the bits I pecked at: I don't get a lot of time for reading).
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I have read many books about Asia. I currently live in Korea, speak Korean and work as a "Korea Expert." It was a relief to find a book that actually looked at Korea as Korea, and not as a vassal of China or a colony of Japan. The author's views tend to be a bit left of center, but this does not detract from the overall solidity of the book. Excellent reading!!
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Von Ein Kunde
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The book deals with both North & South Korea fairly. Cummings lays out America's bungling in another Asian country before Vietnam. & even now. He also provides the civil rights abuses in South Korea that were occurring up to the 1980's. He also explains the current Western false thinking of North Korea as a renegade state and thinking of reunification in terms of Germany's. Unfortunately the book only goes up to 1996, & doesn't cover the 1997 South Korean economic meltdown & IMF bailout. This would change substantially Cummings opinions & predictions for South Korea. For example, he predicts that Kim Dae Jung will never win politcal office, which has occurred in the past year.
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Revisionism intrudes on Reality
While Cumings makes interesting points, especially on the early days of Korea, his discussion of modern history is way too revisionist. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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wrong!
The author must learn about Korean history or East Asian history more carefully. Before 19C, Japanese culture always have been influenced from Korean culture. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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Definte Wrong Point.
Actually I did not read this book. But I read the review on it. I found that Bruce Cumings mentions that Japan influenced Korean Culture. This is definitely wrong point. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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Definte Wrong Point.
Actually I did not read this book. But I read the review on it. I found that Bruce Cumings mentions that Japan influenced Korean Culture. This is definitely wrong point. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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Definte Wrong Point.
Actually I did not read this book. But I read the review on it. I found that Bruce Cumings mentions that Japan influenced Korean Culture. This is definitely wrong point. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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