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To the Diamond Mountains, a hundred-year journey through China and Korea, Tessa Morris-Suzuki

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200)

contains biographical information

mapsillustrations

no index present

non fiction

To the Diamond Mountains

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Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

a hundred-year journey through China and Korea

This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows in the footsteps of a remarkable writer, artist, and feminist who traced the route a century ago--in the year when Korea became a Japanese colony--her saga reveals an unseen face of China and the two Koreas: a world of monks, mission-aries, and smugglers; of royal tombs and socialist mausoleums; a world where today's ideological confrontations are infused with myth and memory. North-east Asia is poised at a moment of profound transformation as the rise of China is transforming the global order and tensions run high on the Korean Peninsula, the last Cold War divide. Probing the deep past of this region, To the Diamond Mountains offers a new and unexpected perspective on its present and future. --Book Jacket

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