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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kang, K. Connie. Home was the Land of Morning Calm. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1995 (OCoLC)604515241 Online version: Kang, K. Connie. Home was the Land of Morning Calm. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1995 (OCoLC)608782748 |
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| Named Person: | K Connie Kang |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
K Connie Kang |
| ISBN: | 0201626845 9780201626841 |
| OCLC Number: | 31938910 |
| Description: | xvii, 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue; Losing the Country (1900-1910); The Resistance; Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-1945); Liberation Is a Cruel Hoax (1945-1950); The Korean War (1950-1953); Japan (1952-1958); From Okinawa to America; Going Home (1967-1970); Back to America (1970-1987); Rediscovering the Real Home (1987-1989); Back to America, Again; Epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | K. Connie Kang. |
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Abstract:
The author's tale is one of hardship, as wars twice force her family to flee their homes in Korea. It is also one of heartbreak, as her new life in America irreversibly separates her from family and their values. This is a story of the wisdom found in a struggle to reconcile two cultures.
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