desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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 Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:31 am Post subject: |
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Great thread! Its time for me to start reading on Korea again. Looks like good suggestions.
Son Deureo!
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I'll second Rand Al Thor's recommendation of Korea's Place in the Sun by Bruce Cumings. While it does cover premodern history in the first 150 or so pages, it does so in a very engaging way and sets the stage for its primary concern, modern Korean history. In his coverage of the Korean War and the resulting division of the peninsula, Cumings tries very hard to present a balanced and accurate view. According to Cumings, neither side is an innocent victim.
Another book I'd recommend is Korea Unmasked, a very engaging comic book treatise on Korean culture. Don't knock it 'til you read it. |
I've read both if these. Korea Unmasked is quite entertaining.
Cumming's book Korea's Place in the Sun is pretty balanced, if perhaps, in hind sight, a little too easy on Kim Jung Il. I sort of knew Cummings from my days at the University of Washington (I think he's at Chicago these days) and he was respected as a balanced scholar. |
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