Two of my favourite essay collections. I’m definitely going to be registering for this University of Edinburgh Asian Studies Roundtable. Rewriting the history of culture in 1970s and 1980s South Korea Wednesday 17 November 2021, 4 – 6 pm (UK time) Dr Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan) and Dr Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California) … [Read More]
Author: Sunyoung Park
Selected publications by Sunyoung Park
- The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945, Harvard University Press 2015
Selected translations by Sunyoung Park
- Anthology: The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories ed Bruce Fulton, Penguin 2023
- Anthology: Readymade Bodhisattva ed Sunyoung Park and Sang Joon Park, Kaya 2019
- Kim Namcheon: Barley (Bi-lingual, Vol 104 – Before and After Liberation), Asia Publishers 2015
- Na Do-hyang: Samnyong the Mute (Bi-lingual, Vol 97 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces), Asia Publishers 2015
- Pak Tae-won: A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist (Bi-lingual, Vol 93 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”), Asia Publishers 2015
- Ch'oe Sohae: Escape (Bi-lingual, Vol 88 – The Naked in the Colony), Asia Publishers 2014
- Anthology: On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea ed Sunyoung Park, Cornell East Asia Series 2010
What have we been reading in 2019? Here are the highs and lows of our reading diary
I alternate my reading, on no systematic basis, between fiction and non-fiction, trying to maintain a balance between keeping up to date with the most important new publications and working through the guilt pile of past publications that I failed to read when they came out. I don’t have time to read much apart from … [Read More]