To the Diamond Mountains

A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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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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Utgivningsdatum2010-11-16
Mått161 x 238 x 16 mm
Vikt424 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsia/Pacific/Perspectives
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442205031

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Prologue: May Day on the Yalu RiverChapter 1: On the Move: To Harbin and HulanChapter 2: Manchurian Ghosts: Changchun and ShenyangChapter 3: Of Sacred Mountains: Liaoyang and the Thousand PeaksChapter 4: Borderlands: From Shanyang to DandongChapter 5: Across the Bridge: To Sinuiju and beyondChapter 6: Diversion: On TimeChapter 7: The New Jerusalem: PyongyangChapter 8: Both Sides Now: Kaesong, Dorasan, and the Line in BetweenChapter 9: In the Palace of the Murdered Queen: SeoulChapter 10: Islands in the Bay: To BusanChapter 11: The Road to the Mountains: South from WonsanChapter 12: Traveling Hopefully

The Diamond Mountains, located primarily in North Korea, are renowned for their beauty and have been an object of interest, even adoration, by sages, poets, spiritualists, and ordinary Koreans for centuries. Currently, the region has been a site of increased tension between North and South Korea, as they had shared administration of a tourist park there. Morris-Suzuki, an Australian professor, recently traveled through northeast China and the two Koreas; she was retracing the route of Emily Kemp, an extraordinary writer, artist, and intrepid adventurer who wrote about her experiences a century ago. Morris-Suzuki, like her predecessor, is a keen observer and a fine writer; she has combined the disciplines of history and travel writing in an absorbing analysis of the past, present, and future of this volatile region. China and South Korea, with their dynamism, seem a world apart from the repressive, static North Korea, but Morris-Suzuki succeeds in putting a human face on the long-suffering people of that pariah state.