The Division System in Crisis: Essays on Contemporary Korea (Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies)
By Nak-chung Paik.
Description
Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea's most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as 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 con...
ISBN(s)
0984590919, 9780984590919
