Old Seoul reconstructs for the reader the city as it was in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when it evolved from being the closed capital of the "Hermit Kingdom" into the international city that it is today.
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Keith Pratt is at University of Durham (Emeritus).
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MODERN SEOUL IS a city of eleven million inhabitants, one of the largest in Asia and in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Korean Repository, South Gate, Horace Allen, King Gojong, Queen Min, Isabella Bishop, Lillias Underwood, United States, William Sands, Lady Hyegyeong, Louise Miln, Dong Yue, Homer Hulbert New!
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MODERN SEOUL IS a city of eleven million inhabitants, one of the largest in Asia and in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Korean Repository, South Gate, Horace Allen, King Gojong, Queen Min, Isabella Bishop, Lillias Underwood, United States, William Sands, Lady Hyegyeong, Louise Miln, Dong Yue, Homer Hulbert New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Vol. 2 by Peter H. Lee in Back Matter
- Japanese Musical Instruments (Images of Asia) by Hugh de Ferranti in Front Matter
- Old Tokyo (Images of Asia) by Keiko Imai Packard in Front Matter
- The Japanese Kimono (Images of Asia) by the late Hugo Munsterberg in Front Matter
- Chinese Painting (Images of Asia) by T. C. Lai in Front Matter
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- New Chinese Cinema (Images of Asia) by Kwok-kan Tam in Front Matter
- Chinese Buddhist Art (Images of Asia) by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky in Front Matter
- Chinese Dragons (Images of Asia) by Roy Bates in Front Matter
- Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea by Keith Pratt in Back Matter
- Old Tokyo (Images of Asia) by Keiko Imai Packard in Front Matter
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