| Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood Forthieth Anniv Edition Contributor(s): Kim, Richard E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520268121 ISBN-13: 9780520268128 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 97-46168 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.48" W x 8.2" (0.59 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this autobiography, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation during WWII, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of Japan and dissolution of the Japanese empire. Examining the intersections of Japanese and Korean history that influenced Korea-Japan relations at the time, Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family, an ethnography of Zainichi Koreans in 1930s Japan, and a vivid portrayal of human spirit in a time of suffering and survival. |