In previous years this post has been, to a greater or lesser extent, a list of every non-fiction title I could find that was going to be hitting the bookshops in the coming year. As the LKL Korea Book Database has grown in size, including its stock of future publications, there are now far too … [Read More]
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Selected publications
- Sheena Chestnut Greitens: Politics of the North Korean Diaspora 2024
- Anthology: The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop ed Suk-young Kim 2023
- David M Robinson: Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order 2022
- Anthology: Rights Claiming in South Korea ed Celeste L. Arrington, Patricia Goedde 2021
- Jong-Woon Lee, Kevin Gray: North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development 2021
- Hyunhee Park: Soju: A Global History 2021
- Hyaeweol Choi: Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea 2020
- Heonik Kwon: After the Korean War: An Intimate History 2020
- John Whitman, Sungdai Cho: Korean: A Linguistic Introduction 2019
- Jae-Jin Yang: The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea 2019
- Anthology: North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks ed Andrew Yeo, Danielle Chubb 2018
- Kirsteen Kim, Sebastian CH Kim: A History of Korean Christianity 2018
- Nianshen Song: Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919 2018
- Chaihark Hahm, Sung Ho Kim: Making We the People: Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea 2015
- Hazel Smith: North Korea: Markets and Military Rule 2015
- Lee Injae, Michael Shin, Owen Miller, Park Jinhoon, Yi Hyun-Hae: Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century 2014
- Marie Seong-Hak Kim: Law and Custom in Korea: Comparative Legal History 2012
- Ki-Moon Lee, S Robert Ramsey: A History of the Korean Language 2011
- Jonathan Condit: Music of the Korean Renaissance: Songs and Dances of the Fifteenth Century 2009
- Yong-i Yun: Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum: A Complete Catalogue tr Roderick Whitfield, Youngsook Pak 2006
- Anthology: A History of Korean Literature ed Peter H Lee 2003
- Anthology: Korea’s Democratization ed Samuel S Kim 2003
- Chang Sea-jin: Financial Crisis and Transformation of Korean Business Groups: The Rise and Fall of Chaebols 2003
- Seung-Kyung Kim: Class Struggle or Family Struggle? The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea 1997
- Dennis L McNamara: The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise, 1910–1945 1990
- Isabella Bird Bishop: Korea and her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country 1898
Eighteen non-fiction titles we’re hoping to enjoy this year [updated]
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Here are some of the books we’re looking forward to in 2021. For the first time in one of these posts we’re flagging the indicative cost of the titles listed here. For me, I have a psychological barrier at around £30: a book has to be offering something pretty special for me to be prepared … [Read More]
A look back at our 2020 reading diary
Like many readers, we started the year with good intention of blitzing through the pile of new titles that were promised for the coming months, as well as making inroads into the backlog. And we genuinely got off to a good start with a string of fun K-thrillers, some of them new, some not: The … [Read More]