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Education fever: society, politics, and the pursuit of schooling in South Korea
In: Hawaiʻi studies on Korea
This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. Through interviews with teachers, officials, parents, and students and an examintion of a wide range of written materials in both Korean and English, the author explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped nearly every aspect of South Korean society
Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961
In: Labor: studies in working-class history of the Americas, Volume 18, Issue 3, p. 165-166
ISSN: 1558-1454
"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 278-279
ISSN: 1470-1316
WORLD CLASS WORLDWIDE: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America. Edited by Philip G. Altbach and Jorge Balan
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 81, Issue 4, p. 613-614
ISSN: 0030-851X
BEYOND BIRTH: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 78, Issue 4, p. 668-670
ISSN: 0030-851X
Seth reviews BEYOND BIRTH: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang.