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Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea’s most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an 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 contemporary world-system, Paik shows how this reality has insinuated itself into virtually every corner of modern Korean life.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies
Publication Date:
05 October 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520289888
Format: Paperback
Paik Nak-chung is emeritus professor of English literature at Seoul National University and co-chair of the Korea Peace Forum.