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Korean Studies
Interviews with scholars of Korea about their new books.
July 25, 2024
Past Progress
Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former…
July 13, 2024
Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution
Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and development have led to i…
June 8, 2024
Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes
In this beautiful new book, Dr. Youngna Kim draws on her vast understanding of Korean art to provide an overview of the peninsula’s contemporary art s…
May 17, 2024
Seeds of Mobilization
South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilisati…
May 10, 2024
South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
How do election campaigns in South Korea look like? Why have satellite parties become an important instrument of power politics? What do the election …
April 30, 2024
North Korea's Mundane Revolution
Histories of North Korea typically focus on one man — Kim Il Sung — and one narrative — his grand rise to absolute power. Andre Schmid’s new book, Nor…
March 27, 2024
Out of Place
Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the larges…
March 11, 2024
Tell It to the World
Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even …
February 24, 2024
Dying for Rights
“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 …
January 30, 2024
The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea
Dr. Andy Jackson’s The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) examines an unexplo…
January 20, 2024
The Power of the Brush
Why did the letter-writing culture of Korea diversify in the sixteenth century? How did this “epistolary revolution” change textual norms, modes of kn…
December 27, 2023
Sovereignty Experiments
Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants are seen to present problems, …
December 25, 2023
Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire
Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology …
December 21, 2023
Flawless
In August, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to complain about how U.S. regulations are holding local sunscreens back compared t…
December 18, 2023
Borderland Dreams
Migration is a theme intertwined with hopes and dreams. In Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke UP, 2023), June …
November 12, 2023
Constructing Student Mobility
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popul…
October 20, 2023
Birth of the Geopolitical Age
From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities af…
October 12, 2023
Excavations
Sae, former journalist turned a young mother of two in 1992 Seoul, is waiting for her husband, an engineer for a small construction company. He’s late…
October 4, 2023
Warring Genealogies
“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In h…
September 27, 2023
Celluloid Democracy
Before South Korea became the democracy and media powerhouse that it is today, it underwent several decades of authoritarian rule during the Cold War …