Division System in Crisis (Paperback)

Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea's most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume represents the first book-length collection of his writings in English. Paik's distinctive theme is the notion of a "division system" on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar geopolitical and cultural logic by which one nation continues to be divided into two states, South and North. Identifying a single structure encompassing both Koreas and placing it within the framework of the contemporary world-system, Paik shows how this reality has insinuated itself into virtually every corner of modern Korean life.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies, 2
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Nak-chung Paik
Translators:	Kim Myung-Hwan • Sol June-Kyu • Song Seung-chul • Young-Joo Ryu
Foreword by:	Bruce Cumings
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28988-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	0-520-28988-9
Barcode:	9780520289888

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