Michael Robinson | London Korean Links

Selected publications by Michael Robinson

Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History, University of Hawai'i Press 2007
Korea Old and New: A History, Harvard University Press 1991
Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925, University of Washington Press 1989

Collections that include work by Michael Robinson

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
New Korean Cinema, Edinburgh University Press 2005
Colonial Modernity in Korea, Harvard University Press 2001
Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives, Harvard University Press 1991

Review: New Korean Cinema (Julian Stringer, Shin Chi-yun)

posted 20 Sep 2005 updated 26 Jul 2021 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read

(Edinburgh UP, 2005) A good selection of articles covering a wide variety of topics. Highly recommended, despite the over-academic language in one or two of the articles. This book’s lively cover, a bracing green colour with a still from Take Care of My Cat, makes it sit well on the bookshelf next to the equally … [Read More]

North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov pub McFarland 2007 (updated 30 Sep)

Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence ed Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi and Brian Bridges pub Routledge 2024 (updated 29 Sep)

The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea by Victor Cha pub Columbia University Press 2024 (updated 28 Sep)

Every Moment Was You: Notes on Loving and Parting [forthcoming] by Ha Tae-wan tr Shanna Tan pub Piatkus expected May 2025 (updated 28 Sep)

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