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To the Diamond Mountains : a hundred-year journey through China and Korea / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa
- Series:
- Asia/Pacific/perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Diamond Mountains (Korea)--Description and travel.
- Diamond Mountains (Korea).
- Korea (North)--Description and travel.
- Korea (North).
- Korea (South)--Description and travel.
- Korea (South).
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa--Travel--China.
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa.
- Travel.
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa--Travel--Korea.
- Korea.
- Kemp, E. G. (Emily Georgiana), 1860-1939--Travel.
- Kemp, E. G.
- Kemp, E. G. (Emily Georgiana), 1860-1939.
- China--Social life and customs.
- Korea (North)--Social life and customs.
- Korea (South)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2010]
- Summary:
- Following in the footsteps of a writer, artist, and feminist who traveled the route a century ago, To the Diamond Mountains takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. By probing the deep past of Northeast Asia at a present moment of profound change, this book offers a fresh perspective on the region's future.
- Contents:
- Prologue: May Day on the Yalu River
- On the move : to Harbin and Hulan
- Manchurian ghosts : Changchun and Shenyang
- Of sacred mountains : Liaoyang and the Thousand Peaks
- Borderlands : from Shenyang to Dandong
- Across the bridge : to Sinuiju and beyond
- Diversion : on time
- The new Jerusalem : Pyongyang
- Both sides now : Kaesong, Dorasan, and the line in between
- In the palace of the murdered queen : Seoul
- Islands in the bay : to Busan
- The road to the mountains : south from Wonsan
- Traveling hopefully.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781442205031
- 1442205032
- 9781442205055
- 1442205059
- OCLC:
- 630470308
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