Carter J Eckert | London Korean Links

Selected publications by Carter J Eckert

Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945, Harvard University Press 2016
Offspring of Empire: The Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945, University of Washington Press 2014
Korea Old and New: A History, Harvard University Press 1991

Collections that include work by Carter J Eckert

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States, University of Washington Press 2020
Critical Readings on the Colonial Period of Korea 1910-1945 (4 vols), Brill 2013
Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Choson, 1392-1910, Columbia University Press 2009
Colonial Modernity in Korea, Harvard University Press 2001
State and Society in Contemporary Korea, Cornell East Asia Series 1994

[Cambridge] Ra Jong-yil Lecture – Professor Carter Eckert

event date Wed 29 May 2019 posted 15 May 2019

This year’s Ra Jong-yil Lecture at Cambridge will be given by Professor Carter Eckert from Harvard University: The US in the Making of South Korean Militarism (1945-1961). The Shasha Suite | Westminster College | Madingley Road | Cambridge Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 – 17:00 to 19:00 Militarism has been deeply intertwined with Korean history and … [Read More]

North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema: Simulation and Neoliberal Politics in the Two Koreas [forthcoming] by Elizabeth Shim pub Bloomsbury expected Nov 2024 (updated 06 Sep)

Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia: Critical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas ed Micky Lee and Peichi Chung pub Bristol University Press 2021 (updated 06 Sep)

Korean War in Color: A Correspondent’s Retrospective on a Forgotten War by Andrew Salmon, Elizabeth Shim, John Rich, Robert Koehler pub Seoul Selection 2011 (updated 06 Sep)

The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends by Bella Dalton-Fenkl, Heinz Insu Fenkl pub Thames + Hudson 2024 (updated 01 Sep)

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