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Don Baker, "Korean New Religions" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)
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May 28, 2026 |
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Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)
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May 27, 2026 |
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Hannah Shepherd, "The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region" (U California Press, 2025)
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May 27, 2026 |
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Gregg A. Brazinsky, "Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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May 16, 2026 |
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Fyodor Tertititsky, "Pyongyang on the Brink: Sixteen Crises That Shaped North Korea" (Hurst, 2026)
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May 14, 2026 |
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David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea" (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Su Hwa Keum, "From Juche to Jesus: A Study of Worldview Transformation Among North Korean Defector Christians in South Korea" (Pickwick Publications, 2025)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Areum Jeong, "K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Min Joo Lee, "Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Serk-Bae Suh, "Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Todd A. Henry ed., "Queer Korea" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Gregory N. Evon, "Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)" (Cambria Press, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" (Hurst UP, 2025)
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Ryan Klejment-Lavin, "Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective" (American Society of Missiology, 2024)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Christopher Hanscom, "Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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May 03, 2025 |
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Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Sarah Ahn and Nam Soon Ahn, "Umma: A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes" (America's Test Kitchen, 2025)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Tycho van der Hoog, "Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa" (Hurst, 2025)
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Hye Seung Chung, "Cinema Under National Reconstruction: State Censorship and South Korea's Cold War Film Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Russell Thomas, "Tofu: A Culinary History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Dennis Wuerthner, "Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Satoru Hashimoto, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (Springer, 2017)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Youngna Kim, "Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes" (Brill, 2024)
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Joan E. Cho, "Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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May 17, 2024 |
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South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
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May 10, 2024 |
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Andre Schmid, "North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965" (U California Press, 2024)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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SunAh M. Laybourn, "Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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June Hee Kwon, "Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Shellen Xiao Wu, "Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Hannah Michell, "Excavations: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Suzy Kim, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Korea: A New History of South and North" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Neither Friend nor Enemy: Sweden-North Korea Relations
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May 26, 2023 |
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David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Aram Hur, "Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Between the Streets and the Assembly: South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Jieun Baek, “North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Ramon Pacheco Pardo, "Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Benjamin R. Young, "Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The Future of Korea: A Discussion with Eugene Y. Park
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Squid Game
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Helen Jin Kim, "Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 18, 2022 |
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Christopher Carothers, "Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
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The New Political Cry in South Korea?: The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea
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May 13, 2022 |
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Kim Hyun, "Glory Hole" (Seagull Books, 2022)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Katie Stallard, "Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Markus Bell, "Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea" (Berghahn, 2021)
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May 02, 2022 |
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The Security Dilemma in the Korean Peninsula: Foreign Policy of Yoon Seok-youl, the Incoming President of South Korea
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Liora Sarfati, "Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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On Korean Zen Buddhism
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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David S. Roh, "Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Alexander Dukalskis, "Making the World Safe for Dictatorship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Yuka Hiruma Kishida, "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Understanding South Korea’s Taegukgi Rallies
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Sunhee Koo, "Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Su Yun Kim, "Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Lindsey Miller, "North Korea: Like Nowhere Else" (September, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Nicholas Harkness, "Glossolalia and the Problem of Language" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Grace M. Cho, "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Odd Arne Westad, "Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Kristen E. Looney, "Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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May 03, 2021 |
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K. Kale Yu, "Understanding Korean Christianity: Grassroot Perspectives on Causes, Culture, and Responses" (Pickwick, 2019)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Jeanne Shea et al., "Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies" (Berghahn, 2020)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Eika Tai, "Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Bill Sewell, "Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45" (UBC Press, 2019)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Andray Abrahamian, "Being in North Korea" (Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2019)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Clara Han, "Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Weijian Shan, "Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank" (John Wiley, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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David Fedman, "Seeds of Control: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Sharon J. Yoon, "The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort Women,' Performance, and Transpacific Redress" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Minjeong Kim, "Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and "Multiculturalism" in Rural South Korea" (U Hawai’i Press, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Mark A. Nathan, “From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Christopher Lovins, “King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea” (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Sandra Fahy, “Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record” (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Hye-Kyung Lee, “Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State” (Routledge, 2018)
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Andray Abrahamian, “North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths” (McFarland, 2018)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Sandra Fahy, “Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea” (Columbia UP, 2015)
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Don Baker, “Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea” (U. Hawaii Press, 2017)
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May 16, 2017 |
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Robert S. Boynton, “The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project” (FSG, 2016)
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May 07, 2016 |
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Albert L. Park, “Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea” (U of Hawaii Press, )
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Apr 24, 2015 |
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Byonghyon Choi, “The Annals of King T’aejo: Founder of Korea’s Choson Dynasty” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Feb 18, 2015 |
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Eugene Y. Park, “A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea” (Stanford UP, 2014)
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Oct 20, 2014 |
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Todd A. Henry, “Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945” (U of California Press, 2014)
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Sep 21, 2014 |
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Nicholas Harkness, “Songs of Seoul” (University of California Press, 2013)
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May 06, 2014 |
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Christopher P. Hanscom, “The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
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Mar 16, 2014 |
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John P. DiMoia, “Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Sep 27, 2013 |
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Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
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Jul 01, 2013 |
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E. Taylor Atkins, "Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945" (U California Press, 2010)
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May 15, 2012 |
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E. Taylor Atkins, "Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945" (U California Press, 2010)
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May 15, 2012 |