Korea + Korean history

Book Reviews

• Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope*
  - a novel of the Korean war
• Kyung Moon Hwang: A History of Korea
  - in thematic chapters centred on key episodes
• Ha Jin: War Trash
  - the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
• Peter H. Lee: The Record of the Black Dragon Year
  - popular fiction from the 16th century Japanese invasion of Korea
• Peter Lowe: The Korean War
  - a brief overview from a British perspective
• Insup Taylor, M. Martin Taylor: Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
  - their scripts and how they are learned and used
• Daniel Tudor: Korea: The Impossible Country
  - aspects of South Korean culture and society

See also: China | Japan