From the publisher’s website: A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States. Theologian Choi Hee An explores how Korean immigrants create a new, postcolonial identity in response to life in the United States. A Postcolonial Self begins with a discussion of a Korean ethnic self (“Woori” or … [Read More]
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Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919-1984
From the publisher’s website: A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea. This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Dongyoun Hwang demonstrates that although the anarchist movement in Korea … [Read More]
A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur: A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891–1955
From the publisher’s website: During the period of Japanese domination, Kim Songsu emerged as one of Korea’s leading cultural nationalists. This life history details his contribution to the self-strengthening programs moderate nationalists advocated as the foundation for Korea’s independence. “Choong Soon Kim’s well-written book weaves a history of Korean capitalism and a history of an … [Read More]
Korean-American Relations 1866-1997
From the publisher’s website: Leading historians and Asian-specialists explore key aspects of United States-Korean relations. Built upon the highly successful volume One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882-1982, this book describes Korea’s importance to the United States and the development of the current relationship. The ramifications of this relationship are evident by the facts that South Korea … [Read More]
New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements
From the publisher’s website: Despite the common held belief that Asian nations have displayed anti-market tendencies of under-consumption and export-oriented trade since the Asian financial crisis, in the 10 years since the crisis, South Korea has bucked this trend accruing a higher debt rate than the US. This groundbreaking collection of essays addresses questions such … [Read More]
Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea
From the publisher’s website: An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea. Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women’s difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. … [Read More]
Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea: New Perspectives
From the publisher’s website: A new, multifaceted look at Korean women during a period of strong Confucian ideology. This volume offers a fresh, multifaceted exploration of women and Confucianism in mid- to late-Choson Korea (mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century). Using primary sources and perspectives from social history, intellectual history, literature, and political thought, contributors challenge … [Read More]
Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality
Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present. Uncovering hidden histories, this book focuses on Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present. Today, South Korea’s Buddhist nuns have a thriving monastic community under their own control, and they are well known as … [Read More]
The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism’s Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by the Son Monk Kihwa)
From the publisher’s website: A concise guide to the key practice systems of the East Asian Meditational schools Ch’an, Son, and Zen. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch’an, Son, and … [Read More]
One Korean’s Approach to Buddhism: The Mom/Momjit Paradigm
From the publisher’s website: Insights into the experience and philosophy of Buddhism from a Korean perspective. This book presents the author’s lifelong study and practice of Buddhism from a Korean perspective. With depth, sensitivity, and candor, Sung Bae Park discusses his country’s contribution to Mahayana Buddhism and also shares his personal experience. A monk in … [Read More]
Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea
From the publisher’s website: Argues that a syncretic worldview encouraged the remarkable growth of Christianity in Korea. This book explains the explosive growth of Christianity since its introduction into Korea in the eighteenth century. In no other Asian country has Christianity taken root so strongly. Author David Chung argues that it was the syncretic tendency … [Read More]
The Korean Language
From the publisher’s website: An accessible, comprehensive source of information on the Korean language–its structure and history to its cultural and sociological setting. This book describes the structure and history of the Korean language, ranging from its cultural and sociological setting, writing system, and modern dialects, to how Koreans themselves view their language and its … [Read More]
A History of the Korean Language
From the publisher’s website: A History of the Korean Language is the first book on the subject ever published in English. It traces the origin, formation, and various historical stages through which the language has passed, from Old Korean through to the present day. Each chapter begins with an account of the historical and cultural … [Read More]
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
From the publisher’s website: This volume aims at studying the role played by translation in the modernization process of the East Asian countries. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many people saw the West as a model for modernization and hence modernization in East Asia was more often than not taken as a process … [Read More]
Sourcebook of Korean Civilization: Volume 2: From the Seventeenth Century to the Modern Period
From the publisher’s website: This is the most comprehensive and authoritative English-language anthology of primary source material on Korean civilization ever assembled. Encompassing social, intellectual, religious, and literary traditions, this volume covers the seventeenth century to the modern period. Contemporary histories, social documents, Buddhist scripture, philosophical treatises, and popular literature selected for this book reflect … [Read More]
Sourcebook of Korean Civilization: Volume 1: From Early Times to the Sixteenth Century
This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative English-language anthology of primary source material on Korean civilization ever assembled. It begins with the Korean creation myth, covering the rise of Korea’s Three Kingdoms, then the history of the Kory dynasty and its lasting influences on Korean culture, and, finally the Early Choson period, with important … [Read More]