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From Gimje to Red Oak

Christina Choi Martin

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Description:Choi Sunhyang (Christina is her Christian name.) was born to parents whose traditionally arranged marriage might best be described as a merger of two families of Korea's landed gentry. The society had hardly changed for centuries, although the Japanese takeover of the peninsula in the wake of their victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 had caused both some modernization and a considerable amount of social turmoil to take place. One result of the Japanese occupation was that many of the most ambitious Koreans went off to Japan to seek their fortune, and, in fact, one of her father's younger brothers would become world famous there under his Japanese name. In 1950, Christina was seven years old and living in the capital city of Seoul, some 200 miles north of her native village, with her parents and three siblings when the North Koreans invaded. The father had duties with his employer, the South Korean police, while the rest of the family fled on foot under the harrowing American air assault upon the surrounding North Korean invaders. Her father, like many other landowners' sons of a more idealistic bent, had had some prior flirtation with the Communist cause, and that fact would create serious complications for the family after the Communist takeover of their village. He was considered a particular traitor to them. Miraculously, he would survive, but the marriage would not survive the family separation of the war. This book is as much as anything a tribute to the fortitude and sacrifice of her involuntarily single mother, a member of the proud Pungcheon Im clan and daughter of a respected agricultural administrator. The story of how Sunhyang eventually became the American, Christina Choi Martin, mother of three, with two post-graduate degrees and a varied career, is as fascinating and engagingly told as is the story of her life in Korea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Gimje to Red Oak. To get started finding From Gimje to Red Oak, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Choi Sunhyang (Christina is her Christian name.) was born to parents whose traditionally arranged marriage might best be described as a merger of two families of Korea's landed gentry. The society had hardly changed for centuries, although the Japanese takeover of the peninsula in the wake of their victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 had caused both some modernization and a considerable amount of social turmoil to take place. One result of the Japanese occupation was that many of the most ambitious Koreans went off to Japan to seek their fortune, and, in fact, one of her father's younger brothers would become world famous there under his Japanese name. In 1950, Christina was seven years old and living in the capital city of Seoul, some 200 miles north of her native village, with her parents and three siblings when the North Koreans invaded. The father had duties with his employer, the South Korean police, while the rest of the family fled on foot under the harrowing American air assault upon the surrounding North Korean invaders. Her father, like many other landowners' sons of a more idealistic bent, had had some prior flirtation with the Communist cause, and that fact would create serious complications for the family after the Communist takeover of their village. He was considered a particular traitor to them. Miraculously, he would survive, but the marriage would not survive the family separation of the war. This book is as much as anything a tribute to the fortitude and sacrifice of her involuntarily single mother, a member of the proud Pungcheon Im clan and daughter of a respected agricultural administrator. The story of how Sunhyang eventually became the American, Christina Choi Martin, mother of three, with two post-graduate degrees and a varied career, is as fascinating and engagingly told as is the story of her life in Korea.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Gimje to Red Oak. To get started finding From Gimje to Red Oak, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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