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The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Revised and Updated Edition)

8 best books like The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Revised and Updated Edition) (Don Oberdorfer): The Fade Out: Act One, The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters, The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980

The Fade Out: Act One
AuthorEd Brubaker
ISBN1632151715
Brubaker and Phillips' newest hit series, The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace...
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
AuthorB.R. Myers
ISBN1933633913
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda

What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?

Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean...
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
AuthorCharles Robert Jenkins
ISBN0520253337
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him...
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
AuthorVictor Cha
ISBN0061998508
“A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy.” -Foreign Affairs

The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council

In The...
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
AuthorPico Iyer
ISBN0679722165
Iyer in his introduction tells us this is “less like a conventional travel diary than a series of essays” of a “casual traveler’s casual observations” of the Asia he saw “over the course of two years... [spending] a total of seven months crisscrossing the continent.” Each chapter covers...
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
AuthorPascal Khoo Thwe
ISBN0060505230
Winner of the 2002 Kiriyama Prize in Nonfiction

The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. In lyrical prose, Pascal Khoo Thwe describes his childhood as a member of the...
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
AuthorJohn Pomfret
ISBN0805076158
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all manner...
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
AuthorJonathan D. Spence
ISBN0140062793
 “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)
 
In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers,...
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