FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982   Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.   A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again.   Written in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives of eight Korean women, aged 10 to 80. Contained in each of these biographies is a microcosm of contemporary Korea, and the challenges and injustices that women face from childhood to old age. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, the fates of these eight women are the fates of women the world over. And under Cho Nam-Joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, nothing and nobody escapes scrutiny--not even herself.  

THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY SELLING SOUTH KOREAN SENSATION THAT HAS GOT THE WHOLE WORLD TALKING 'A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction.' Stylist Who is Kim Jiyoung? Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung is depressed. Kim Jiyoung is mad. Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is every woman. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all. Riveting, original and uncompromising, this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang's The Vegetarian. Praise for Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 'It describes experiences that will be recognisable everywhere. It's slim, unadorned narrative distils a lifetime's iniquities into a sharp punch.' The Sunday Times 'A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction' Stylist 'Along with other socially critical narratives to come out of Korea, such as Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning film Parasite, her story could change the bigger one.' TheGuardian 'This witty, disturbing book deals with sexism, mental health issues and the hypocrisy of a country where young women are "popping caffeine pills and turning jaundiced" as they slave away in factories helping to fund higher education for male siblings.' The Independent 'Enthralling and enraging.' Sunday Express 'Cho's moving, witty and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other. There's a logic to Kim Jiyoung's shape-shifting: she could be anybody.' Daily Telegraph

Designed to accompany the textbook of the same name, Intermediate Modern Korean: An Interactive Approach – Student Workbook presents students with a collection of engaging activities and exercises to support their learning and acquisition of the Korean language. The workbook exercises are designed to either support active learning within the classroom or serve as homework assignments to reinforce lessons. Each workbook lesson contains vocabulary exercises, grammar exercises, and integrated activities that incorporate various combinations of reading, writing, listening, and speaking to support a highly interactive approach. Students are encouraged to study the main texts, vocabulary, and grammar in the corresponding text prior to completing the workbook exercises. As learners progress through the workbook, they practice communicative competence according to contexts, functions, and participants' roles. Students learn how to talk about transportation and hobbies, communicate effectively over the phone, describe what people are wearing, and give advice. They practice expressing sickness and injury, making purchases, inviting others to events, conveying congratulations, commenting on current issues or events, and more. Providing students with a hands-on, practical, and highly immersive approach to the language, Intermediate Modern Korean is an ideal student workbook for mid-level courses in Korean.

An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression and historical trauma.

But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside one's home, country, culture or language. And the complex violence - for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this - of language itself.

Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks and camouflages, Le's poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.

Intermediate Modern Korean: An Interactive Approach presents the intermediate level of the Korean language to students in a highly interactive manner. Students learn how to competently communicate in Korean according to specific contexts, functions, and speakers' roles with emphasis on meaningful information exchange. Each lesson integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills to encourage acquisition and provide students with a holistic understanding of the language. The book consists of 16 comprehensive lessons. The lessons begin with warmup exercises, followed by texts that introduce vocabulary, grammar elements, and conversational expressions. Students learn 30-40 new words per lesson and are provided with word grouping, collocation, definition matching, and conversation activities to reinforce correct word usage. Students receive numerous opportunities to practice grammar, hone listening and speaking skills, and read materials from authentic Korean sources. They are introduced to unique expressions and cultural contexts to help them grasp the language spoken natively by educated individuals in the metropolitan area of Seoul. Designed to continue the valuable learnings set forth in Beginning Modern Korean: An Interactive Approach, Intermediate Modern Korean is an ideal resource for intermediate Korean language courses.

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho’s complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in South Korea. ... With global inequality on the rise, Saha’s theme of human dignity quashed by the interests of mega-corporations resonates widely.' Guardian '[A]n affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didn’t exist.' New York Times In a country called ‘Town’, Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates.   Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots and those who have the very least live on the Saha Estates. Among their number is Jin-Kyung, a young woman whose brother, Dok-yung, was in a relationship with Su and quickly becomes the police’s prime suspect. When Dok-yung disappears, Jin Ky-ung is determined to get to the bottom of things. On her quest to find the truth, though, she will uncover a reality far darker and crimes far greater than she could ever have imagined.   At once a dystopian mystery and devastating critique of how we live now, Saha lifts the lid on corruption, exploitation and government oppression, while, with deep humanity and compassion, showing us the lives of those who, through no fault of their own, suffer at the hand of brutal forces far beyond their control. Praise for Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982  'It describes experiences that will be recognisable everywhere. It’s slim, unadorned narrative distils a lifetime’s iniquities into a sharp punch.’ The Sunday Times   ‘A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction’ Stylist   ‘Along with other socially critical narratives to come out of Korea, such as Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film Parasite, her story could change the bigger one.’ The Guardian   'This witty, disturbing book deals with sexism, mental health issues and the hypocrisy of a country where young women are “popping caffeine pills and turning jaundiced� as they slave away in factories helping to fund higher education for male siblings.' The Independent   'Enthralling and enraging.' Sunday Express   ‘Cho’s moving, witty and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other. There’s a logic to Kim Jiyoung’s shape-shifting: she could be anybody.’ Daily Telegraph  

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in South Korea. ... With global inequality on the rise, Saha's theme of human dignity quashed by the interests of mega-corporations resonates widely.' Daily Telegraph '[A]n affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didn't exist.' New York Times In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots and those who have the very least live on the Saha Estates. Among their number is Jin-Kyung, a young woman whose brother, Dok-yung, was in a relationship with Su and quickly becomes the police's prime suspect. When Dok-yung disappears, Jin Ky-ung is determined to get to the bottom of things. On her quest to find the truth, though, she will uncover a reality far darker and crimes far greater than she could ever have imagined. At once a dystopian mystery and devastating critique of how we live now, Saha lifts the lid on corruption, exploitation and government oppression, while, with deep humanity and compassion, showing us the lives of those who, through no fault of their own, suffer at the hand of brutal forces far beyond their control. Praise for Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 'It describes experiences that will be recognisable everywhere. It's slim, unadorned narrative distils a lifetime's iniquities into a sharp punch.' The Sunday Times 'A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction' Stylist 'Along with other socially critical narratives to come out of Korea, such as Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning film Parasite, her story could change the bigger one.' The Guardian 'This witty, disturbing book deals with sexism, mental health issues and the hypocrisy of a country where young women are "popping caffeine pills and turning jaundiced" as they slave away in factories helping to fund higher education for male siblings.' The Independent 'Enthralling and enraging.' Sunday Express 'Cho's moving, witty and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other. There's a logic to Kim Jiyoung's shape-shifting: she could be anybody.' Daily Telegraph

The manga adaptation of the beloved novel featuring all-new scenes by Rainbow Rowell! “The graphic novelisation of Fangirl is a beautiful, contemplative, and fun reading experience.� —Women Write About Comics Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can’t let go… Everything in Cath’s offline life is going wrong. Just when she’s started to realise her feelings for Levi, she sees him kissing someone else. Plus, her writing partner, Nick, is acting strange, and her twin sister, Wren, is suddenly making time for their mother—the same woman who walked out of their lives ten years ago! When their dad ends up in the hospital, Cath decides it’s time to rethink her plans for the future. But how can she leave the past behind when it keeps showing up at her door?

Designed to accompany the textbook of the same name, Beginning Modern Korean: An Interactive Approach - Student Workbook presents students with a collection of engaging activities and exercises to support their learning and acquisition of the Korean language. The workbook exercises are designed to either support active learning within the classroom or serve as homework assignments to reinforce lessons. Each workbook lesson contains vocabulary exercises, grammar exercises, and integrated activities that incorporate various combinations of reading, writing, listening, and speaking to support a highly interactive approach. Students are encouraged to study the main texts, vocabulary, and grammar in the corresponding text prior to completing the workbook exercises. As learners progress through the workbook, they practice communicative competence according to contexts, functions, and participants' roles. Students learn how to introduce themselves, talk about their family members, communicate daily activities, provide suggestions about food, ask for prices, express their feelings, confirm appointments, and more. Providing students with a hands-on, practical, and highly immersive approach to the language, Beginning Modern Korean is an ideal student workbook for foundational courses in Korean.

Beginning Modern Korean: An Interactive Approach introduces students to contemporary standard Korean and fosters communicative competence in the language according to contexts, functions, and participants' roles. The text achieves a unique balance between teaching and learning by actively incorporating the four key skills of language acquisition-listening, speaking, reading, and writing-throughout. The majority of the narratives in the main texts, grammar examples, and exercises are given or conducted in interactive ways so learners can experience the real feeling of language use and the atmosphere of authentic contexts. The text begins with a comprehensive introduction to Hangul, Korean orthography, providing students with the knowledge and skillsets they need to read and write effectively. Over the course of 16 lessons, students learn new vocabulary, practice grammar exercises, listen to audio files and instructor readings, and sharpen conversational skills. Reading, writing, spelling, and pronunciation exercises support students' language acquisition, and cultural notes help them develop an awareness and knowledge of Korean culture. Emphasizing a fully active approach to language learning and acquisition, Beginning Modern Korean is well suited for foundational courses in Korean.

Southeast Asia ranks among the most significant regions in the world for tracing the prehistory of human endeavor over a period in excess of two million years. It lies in the direct path of successive migrations from the African homeland that saw settlement by hominin populations such as Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. The first Anatomically Modern Humans, following a coastal route, reached the region at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter gatherer tradition that survives to this day in remote forests. From about 2000 BC, human settlement of Southeast Asia was deeply affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and west, such as rice and millet farming. A millennium later, knowledge of bronze casting penetrated along the same pathways. Copper mines were identified and exploited, and metals were exchanged over hundreds of kilometers. In the Mekong Delta and elsewhere, these developments led to early states of the region, which benefitted from an agricultural revolution involving permanent ploughed rice fields. These developments illuminate how the great early kingdoms of Angkor, Champa, and Funan came to be, a vital stage in understanding the roots of the present nation states of Southeast Asia. Assembling the most current research across a variety of disciplines-from anthropology and archaeology to history, art history, and linguistics-The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia will present an invaluable resource to experienced researchers and those approaching the topic for the first time.

Since 1991, the group of ring theorists from China and Japan, joined by Korea from 1995 onwards, took turns to hold the quadrennial international conferences (sometimes also referred to as symposiums). As the proceedings of the eighth conference held in Nagoya, Japan in 2019, this volume consists of a collection of articles by invited speakers (survey) and general speakers (survey and original), all of which were refereed by world experts.The survey articles show the trends of current research and offer clear, thorough explanations that are ideal for researchers also in other specialized areas of ring theory. The original articles display new results, ideas and tools for research investigations in ring theory.The articles cover major areas in ring theory, such as: structures of rings, module theory, homological algebra, groups, Hopf algebras, Lie theory, representation theory of rings, (non-commutative) algebraic geometry, commutative rings (structures, representations), amongst others.This volume is a useful resource for researchers - both beginners and advanced experts - in ring theory.