My Korea : : 40 Years Without a Horsehair Hat / / Kevin O'Rourke.
My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 KOREA IN THE 1960s
- 2 THE COLUMBANS
- 3 LEARNING THE ROPES
- 4 CULTURAL ADAPTATION
- 5 IN AT THE DEEP END
- 6 THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE: WHERE TO BEGIN
- 7 THE CONFUCIAN MONOLITH
- 8 THE CHOSŎN BUREAUCRACY
- 9 THE BUDDHIST INGREDIENT
- 10 EXCLUSIVITY MYTHS
- 11 CHILMAJAE SONGS
- 12 KOREA’S GREATEST ASSET
- 13 TALES OF THE IMMORTALS
- 14 AT THE CULTURAL COALFACE: IMMERSION, SUBMERSION? – TAKE YOUR PICK
- 15 NINE PRIEST IMMORTALS
- 16 SEEKING THE WAY
- 17 FOR THOSE OF US WITH LESS THAN IMMORTAL STATUS
- 18 LEARNING KOREAN
- AFTERWORD
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX