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Mar 14, 2019 · In this fascinating episode of The Crack-Up series that explores how 1919 shaped the modern world, Professor Kyung Moon Hwang discusses the complex birth of Korean nationhood and explains how both North and South Korea owe their origins and their national history narratives to the events swirling around March 1, 1919.
Kyung Moon Hwang's A History of Korea is the most reader-friendly guide for anyone who is interested in the historical changes of the Korean Peninsula. Hwang's masterful selections of historical themes and episodes on Korean history from antiquity to the present are well organized in this book.
The first half of the book covers the pre-20th-century era, and the second half covers the modern era, reflecting the structure of most Korean history courses. Read more ©2010, 2016, 2021 Kyung Moon Hwang (P)2022 Tantor
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Nov 11, 2022 · Kyung Moon Hwang is a Korea Foundation Professor in the School of Culture, History, and Languages. A historian of Korea, Kyung Moon Hwang has written extensively on the politics and culture of historical memory, conflicts, and debates in South Korea. In addition to several shorter pieces, he published a book, Past Forward (2019), of essays ...
Kyung Moon Hwang is Korea Foundation Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of A History of Korea (Third Edition, 2021), Past Forward: Essays in Korean History (2019), Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State (2015), and Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea (2004).
A History of Korea. Presenting the richness of Korean civilization from early state formation to the jarring transformations resulting in two distinctive trajectories of modern development, this book introduces the country's major historical events, patterns, and debates. Organised both chronologically and thematically, it explore recurring ...
Hwang presents the history of Korea in twenty seven chronological chapters, each beginning with a list of half-a-dozen or so key dates, but makes no attempt at a continuous narrative. Instead, each chapter of A History of Korea starts with a key episode, then works outwards from that to consider other aspects of the period and broader themes ...
