When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in WWII by Linda Sue Park
Fictionalized memoir of Korean girl and her brother set toward then end of Japanese occupation, when everyone was required to take a Japanese name.
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A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Young adult historical novel of 12th century orphan boy who through perseverance becomes a renowned ceramicist.
Women and Confucian Cultures by Dorothy Ko, Jahyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott
This fascinating collection of writings examines the role and culture of women in the Confucian-regulated eras of China, Korea and Japan.
Pioneers of Modern Korea by J. Earnest Fisher
Sketches by the author of Americans and American-educated Koreans who influenced Korean culture and politics in the early 20th century.
I Am Korean American by Robert Kim
Photographs and a a simple narrative reveal a day in the life of a young Korean American girl.
When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon by Frances Park
This family, comprised of a distant mother, insomniac father, bipolar older sister and new-age main character experiences ongoing situational traumas, racial tyranny and sexual stereotyping.
Treasures from Korea: Art through 5000 Years, by Roderick Whitfield
This British Museum exhibition catalog presents a broad collection of ceramics, gold work, and from the later dynasty, paintings.
Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
A young girl discovers that her mother is really her stepmother (who hates her) and is tossed out of house.
The Grass Roof by Younghill Kang
Autobiographical novel of a scholar’s son’s coming of age in small village during the Japanese occupation, though that is felt with some distance.
The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna Catherine Scott
This fictionalized story tells the sorrowful story of a simple orphan girl, in postwar Korea (mid-late 1950s) who works in a gourd shop.
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