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Overview
In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald’s widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years. Remaining true to Macdonald’s original conception, Clark has reworked the existing text from the perspective of the mid-1990s to take account of the enormous political and economic changes in South Korea, the evolving relationship between North and South, and the implications of North Korea’s leadership transition and nuclear capability.Synopsis
"In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald’s widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the pen"
Library Journal
Georgetown professor Macdonald's survey of Korean history, society, culture, international relations, politics, economics, and the reunification question is comprehensive and up-to-dateand just in time for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. But at times, it is too much survey and too little substance (e.g., the history of the decades of Japanese occupation and the Korean War is particularly weak). Also, in support of the author's optimistic outlook on prospects for reunification, his minimizing of the differences between North and South Korea is overdone. Most appropriate as a text or supplementary reader for an undergraduate survey course. Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C.