To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) eBook: Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Books

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To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Kindle Edition
by Tessa Morris-Suzuki  (Author)
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This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows in the footsteps of a remarkable writer, artist, and feminist who traced the route a century ago—in the year when Korea became a Japanese colony—her saga reveals an unseen face of China and the two Koreas: a world of monks, missionaries, and smugglers; of royal tombs and socialist mausoleums; a world where today's ideological confrontations are infused with myth and memory. Northeast Asia is poised at a moment of profound change as the rise of China is transforming the global order and tensions run high on the Korean Peninsula, the last Cold War divide. Probing the deep past of this region, To the Diamond Mountains offers a new and unexpected perspective on its present and future.
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Biography
Tessa Morris-Suzuki was born in England and lived and worked in Japan before emigrating to Australia in 1981. She is professor of Japanese history in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where her research focuses on Japan's frontiers and minority communities and on questions of historical memory in East Asia.
Her most recent book is To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey through China and Korea.
To learn more about this book, WATCH THE VIDEO "To the Diamond Mountains: Behind the Book" below!
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5.0 out of 5 starsFantastic book and fast delivery!
ByAmazon Customeron January 27, 2013
Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase
Very lucky to read this book now just in time before my presentation! Though I was listening the author's lecture at the last Congress of the Australian Association of Asian Studies in Sydney, the materials I needed, turned to be just in this book.
Amazing how authors were gathered the materials deeply in the Northern Korea, where not every Westerner could penetrate! The best book for those who is working at the comparative culture an travel writings.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA truly wonderful book
ByKoalaemmaon March 18, 2014
Format: Hardcover
This books details Morris-Suzuki's extraordinary journey through Northeast China and Korea. She is a master at interweaving the past and present throughout the narrative. Her sensitive, yet sharp and intuitive commentary on her trip and experiences in China, the DPRK and South Korea betray her expert knowledge of the history of this region as well as her understanding of the contemporary situation on the Korean peninsula and Northeast China. Bringing additional enjoyment are the beautiful drawings that accompany the narrative. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPanoramic, thoughtful, well written travel and history book
ByConstanceon August 16, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Tessa-Suzuki re-traces the journey of a 19th century explorer Emily Kemp from Northern China to the Diamond Mountains in North Korea. The contrast between Kemp's and Tessa-Suzuki's experiences highlights the dramatic changes brought about by the constant flow of conflicts, ideologies, trade, and cultures throughout East Asia. Each chapter is an opportunity to see around a bend in the road, to examine a forgotten monument, to gaze across a boundary and to ponder the historical legacy of that place and the ethical tensions inherent in that legacy. This is a beautifully written book that will fascinate with its wide-ranging perspectives and its compassionate reflections on the many little known or almost forgotten tragedies of East Asian history, as well as its beauties and resilience.