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]
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Selected publications
- Han Sang Kim: Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation 2022
- Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt: The Borders of Chinese Architecture 2022
- Hail Park, Joon Kyung Kim, Yung Chul Park: Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea, 1980–2020 2021
- Odd Arne Westad: Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations 2021
- Hwansoo Ilmee Kim: The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 2018
- Yoon Sun Yang: From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea 2017
- Soyoung Suh: Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century 2017
- Carter J Eckert: Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 2016
- Mark E. Byington: The Ancient State of Puyo in Northeast Asia 2016
- Heekyoung Cho: Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature 2016
- Martina Deuchler: Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea 2015
- Sunyoung Park: The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 2015
- Barry Eichengreen, Dwight H Perkins, Wonhyuk Lim, Yung Chul Park: The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future 2015
- Masuda Hajimu: Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World 2015
- Various: The Annals of King T’aejo: Founder of Korea’s Chosŏn Dynasty tr Choi Byonghyon 2014
- Jun Uchida: Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945 2014
- Christopher P Hanscom: The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea 2013
- Hwansoo Ilmee Kim: Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 2013
- Barry Eichengreen, Dwight H Perkins, Kwanho Shin: From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy 2012
- Sonia Ryang: Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry 2012
- Joan Busquets: Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul 2011
- Anthology: The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea ed Byung-Kook Kim, Ezra F. Vogel 2011
- David M Robinson: Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols 2009
- Kelly H Chong: Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea 2008
- Sem Vermeersch: Power of the Buddhas: The Politics of Buddhism During the Koryo Dynasty 2008
- Kirk Larsen: Tradition, Treaties and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea 1850 – 1910 2008
- Eugene Y Park: Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600-1894 2007
- Jonathan W Best: A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, together with an annotated translation of The Paekche Annals of the Samguk sagi 2007
- Jennifer Lee: Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America 2006
- Hwang Kyung-moon: Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea 2005
- Anthology: The Book of Korean Shijo ed Kevin O'Rourke 2002
- Denise Lett: In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea’s “New” Urban Middle Class 2002
- Anthology: Colonial Modernity in Korea ed Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson 2001
- Hyung Il Pai: Constructing “Korean” Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories 2000
- Soon-Won Park: Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory 1999
- Anthology: Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea ed JaHyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler 1999
- John Lie, Nancy Abelmann: Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots 1997
- Marshall R Pihl, Trad / anon: The Korean Singer of Tales tr Marshall R Pihl 1994
- Martina Deuchler: The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology 1992
- James B Palais: Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea 1991
- Carter J Eckert, Edward W Wagner, Ki-baik Lee, Michael Robinson, Young Ick Lew: Korea Old and New: A History 1991
- Anthology: Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives ed William Shaw 1991
- Ki-baik Lee: A New History of Korea tr Edward J Schultz, Edward W Wagner 1984
- Vincent Brandt: A Korean Village: Between Farm and Sea 1971
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]