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For decades one of the world's great centers for the study of East Asia, EALC is home to an international faculty of nearly 60 professors, preceptors, and instructors offering instruction in the languages, literatures, religions, philosophy, history, art history, and popular culture of China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia, from ancient times to the present. With the strong support of  the world-renowned Harvard-Yenching Library and the various regional centers and research institutes, EALC strives to maintain the highest levels of academic achievement at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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The Northern Region of Korea
History, Identity, and Culture
Edited by Sun Joo Kim

FOR many centuries the residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. Contributors to this book address the problem of amnesia regarding the subjectivity of the northern region of Korea in contemporary, historical, and cultural discourses, which have largely been dominated by grand paradigms, such as modernization theory, the positivist perspective, and Marxism. Through the use of storytelling, linguistic analysis, and journal entries from turn-of-the-century missionaries and traveling Russians, in addition to many varieties of unconventional primary sources, they creatively explore unfamiliar terrain while examining the culture, identity, and regional distinctiveness of the northern region and its people.

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
2 Volume Set

With contributions from: