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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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An elegantly informative account of Korea's convulsive transformation from a cohesive, if authoritarian, agrarian society into a nation uneasily divided between the North's seemingly backward Marxist police state and the South's modern industrial showcase whose governance still owes much to dynastic, neo- Confucian principles. While Cumings (War and Television, 1992, etc.) focuses on the East Asian country's recent past (i.e., from the mid-19th century to the present), he provides a wonderfully discursive appreciation of the small peninsular nation's development in earlier eras, when it was frequently caught up in the geopolitical struggles of aggressive neighbors like China and Japan. Stressing the traditionally shrewd approach to foreign policy of those who have ruled Korea, the author (director of Northwestern University's Center for International and Comparative Studies) assesses the country's forcible annexation by Japan in 1910, its subsequent liberation, and its postWW II partition. Also reviewed in detail is the war between North and South during the early 1950s, and the Republic of Korea's unlikely emergence as an economic power (thanks in large measure to a well-educated indigenous workforce). Cumings goes on to record the mountainous South's progress toward establishing democratic institutions, a process accelerated by the pragmatic impatience of influential chaebols (conglomerates) with the capriciously acquisitive tyrannies of military strongmen. Covered as well are prospects for German-style reunification (an outcome that could discomfit Japan), the North's ``cloistered regime'' and the putative perils posed by its nuclear capabilities, the aspirations of expatriate Koreans (deemed a model minority in the US), and the place a united nation might claim in the Global Village's pecking order. An immensely illuminating and accessible history of a strategic Pacific Basin outpost whose yesteryears are remarkable for sudden reversals of fortune and arresting discontinuities. (maps, color and b&w photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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3 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
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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. He cites many works I had never heard of before, for some reason or other. And there are many. Just for these alone this book should be highly recommended.
*** Warning! You may get royally ticked off, especially if you are of Korean heritage or naive enough to trust that justice and wisdom prevail in this world.
And I'd like to add, as a Korean American, that it is a wonderful change to actually read a book on Korea by a non Korean-born person who actually does "know all about Korea". I am particularly appreciative of the fact that he kept taking words right out of my mouth regarding the patronizing Western attitudes, especially from the likes of Beatrice Webb, who kept calling the Korean race "horrid", "low vertebrates," etc. When I emigrated to this country in '79, the only books I could find in my school library on Korea were written by people such as she. I was twelve and I shook with an impotent rage when I came across such ignorant remarks from such half-educated, narrow-minded, "Christians" abroad, out to "help" a benighted yellow race but only succeeding in blinding people back home about what was really out there - people just like them struggling to modernize.
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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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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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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
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
Excellent readable background of the two Koreas.
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. April 1999 veröffentlicht
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
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
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
One of the three best books on Korea that I have ever read.
I have read many books about Asia. I currently live in Korea, speak Korean and work as a "Korea Expert. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Oktober 1998 von "bmport"
Accurate portrayal of both Koreas
The book deals with both North & South Korea fairly. Cummings lays out America's bungling in another Asian country before Vietnam. & even now. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. August 1998 veröffentlicht
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