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Korean Studies
East Asian Studies
February 17, 2021
Comfort Women Activism
Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State
Eika Tai
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Eika Tai’s Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) tackles the complex histories of Japanese “military sexual violence” and the activism by women …
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Law
February 8, 2021
Asia's New Geopolitics
Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Michael R. Auslin
Hosted by Jane Richards
Is the Indo-Pacific already the most dominant in terms of global power, politics, and wealth? In his newest book, Michael R. Auslin considers the key issues facing the Indo-Pacific which have ramifications …
East Asian Studies
January 25, 2021
Constructing Empire
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
Bill Sewell
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
What happens to everyday-life in a city when it becomes subsumed into an empire? Who becomes responsible for the everyday building and management of the new imperial enclave? How do …
East Asian Studies
January 21, 2021
Being in North Korea
Andray Abrahamian
Hosted by Ed Pulford
As well as presenting practical challenges, addressing the question ‘what is it like in North Korea?’ raises ethical concerns around who is entitled to interpret life in a place so …
East Asian Studies
January 13, 2021
Seeing Like a Child
Inheriting the Korean War
Clara Han
Hosted by Ann Choi
Intertwining autobiography and ethnography, Clara Han’s touching new book Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2020) asks how scholarship can be transformed from a child’s …
Economics
January 8, 2021
Money Games
The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank
Weijian Shan
Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank (Wiley, 2020) by Weijian Shan’s, is a riveting tale of one of the most successful buyout deals ever …
East Asian Studies
December 22, 2020
Seeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
David Fedman
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
David Fedman's Seeds of Control: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020) is hard to categorize. In a good way. Put simply, it is …
East Asian Studies
December 16, 2020
The Cost of Belonging
An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown
Sharon J. Yoon
Hosted by Ann Choi
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea who often …
Gender Studies
November 25, 2020
Embodied Reckonings
“Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress
Elizabeth Son
Hosted by Ann Choi
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the …
East Asian Studies
October 23, 2020
Elusive Belonging
Marriage Immigrants and 'Multiculturalism' in Rural South Korea
Minjeong Kim
Hosted by Ann Choi
Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions among female migrant workers, the tendency to conflate marriage migration with …
East Asian Studies
July 28, 2020
From the Mountains to the Cities
A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea
Mark A. Nathan
Hosted by Trevor McManis
From the Mountains to the Cities A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2018), written by Mark A. Nathan, is a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) …
East Asian Studies
January 6, 2020
King Chŏngjo
An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea
Christopher Lovins
Hosted by Mark Klobas
Though traditionally regarded as a monarch who failed to arrest the gradual decline of his kingdom, the Korean king Chŏngjo has benefited in recent decades from a wave of new …
East Asian Studies
December 23, 2019
Dying for Rights
Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record
Sandra Fahy
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for North …
East Asian Studies
June 25, 2019
Cultural Policy in South Korea
Making a New Patron State
Hye-Kyung Lee
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why does Korean cultural policy matter? In Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State (Routledge, 2018), Hye-Kyung Lee, a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at …
Literary Studies
May 2, 2019
Colonizing Language
Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Christina Yi
Hosted by Ed Pulford
The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone. Questions of guilt, responsibility and atonement continue to bubble below …
East Asian Studies
February 12, 2019
North Korea's Hidden Revolution
How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
Jieun Baek
Hosted by Ed Pulford
With recent events having raised hopes that significant change may be afoot in North Korea, it is important to remember that DPRK society has in fact been undergoing steady transformation …
East Asian Studies
January 28, 2019
North Korea and Myanmar
Divergent Paths
Andray Abrahamian
Hosted by Ed Pulford
At an often-stressful time in global affairs, and with the very idea of the ‘international community’ seemingly under threat, it can be beneficial to look at the 'global order’ from …
East Asian Studies
November 6, 2018
Marching Through Suffering
Loss and Survival in North Korea
Sandra Fahy
Hosted by Ed Pulford
Amidst an atmosphere of hope on the Korean Peninsula over the past year, questions over the wellbeing of North Korea’s population have again come to global attention. But this is …