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
- Young A Jung: Korean Kirogi Families: Placemaking, Belonging, and Mothering 2024
- Chun Kyung-hyo, Haeran Shin, Kim Heuijeong, Kim Seok-hyang, Lee Hyunuk: North Korean Defectors in Diaspora: Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements 2022
- Anthology: Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave ed Marcy L. Tanter and Moisés Park 2022
- Lee Kyounghoon: A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa tr John M Frankl 2022
- Jin Suk Bae: Korean Immigrants from Latin America: Fitting into Multiethnic New York 2021
- Wayne Patterson: William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea, 1896–1904: At the Deathbed of Empire 2021
- Se Hwa Lee: Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America 2021
- Oul Han: Polarized Politics in South Korea: Political Culture and Democracy in Partisan Newspapers 2021
- Edward Taehan Chang: Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States 2021
- Anthology: Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea ed Hojeong Lee and Joong-Hwan Oh 2021
- Anthology: Communicating Food in Korea ed Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh 2021
- Kim Young-min: The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945): The Topography of Literary Systems and Form tr Rachel Min Park 2021
- Jaehyeon Jeong: Korean Food Television and the Korean Nation 2020
- Hojeong Lee: Korean Digital Diaspora: Transnational Social Movements and Diaspora Identity 2020
- Dong Bae Lee: The Construction of Korean Culture in Korean Language Textbooks: Ideologies and Textbooks 2020
- Anthology: The Borderlands of China and Korea: Historical Changes in the Contact Zones of East Asia ed Yong-ku Cha 2020
- David W Shin: Kim Jong-un’s Strategy for Survival: A Method to Madness 2020
- Anthology: Newcomers and Global Migration in Contemporary South Korea: Across National Boundaries ed Sung-Choon Park and Joong-Hwan Oh 2020
- Chŏng Chedu, Edward Y J Chung: The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea: The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok) tr Edward Y J Chung 2020
- Anthology: Koreatowns: Exploring the Economics, Politics, and Identities of Korean Spatial Formation ed Jinwon Kim, Soo Mee Kim, Stephen Cho Suh 2020
- Immanuel Kim: Laughing North Koreans: The Culture of Comedy Films 2020
- Park Sung-choon: Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites 2020
- Hyejung Ju: Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences 2019
- Anthology: Korean Diaspora across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality ed Eun-Jeong Han, Min Wha Han and JongHwa Lee 2019
- Dal Yong Jin, Hark Joon Lee: K-Pop Idols: Popular Culture and the Emergence of the Korean Music Industry 2019
- Dennis Patterson, Jangsup Choi: Diplomacy, Trade, and South Korea’s Rise to International Influence 2019
- Anthology: Korea and the World: New Frontiers in Korean Studies ed Gregg A. Brazinsky 2019
- Gooyong Kim: From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry 2018
- David W Shin: Rationality in the North Korean Regime: Understanding the Kims’ Strategy of Provocation 2018
- Anthology: Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea: Contemporary Research and Future Prospects ed Dal Yong Jin and Nojin Kwak 2018
- Kim Chul: Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists tr Yoon Hye-joon 2018
- Anthology: The Korean Wave: Evolution, Fandom, and Transnationality ed Tae-Jin Yoon and Dal Yong Jin 2017
- Nan Kim: Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea Crossing the Divide 2016
- Stella Xu: Reconstructing Ancient Korean History: The Formation of Korean-ness in the Shadow of History 2016
- Ahlam Lee: North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society: Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process 2015
- Jung In Kang: Western-Centrism and Contemporary Korean Political Thought 2015
- Anthology: Contemporary Korean Political Thought in Search of a Post-Eurocentric Approach ed Jung In Kang 2014
- Robert Winstanley-Chesters: Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project 2014
- Youngtae Shin: Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women 2014
- Anthology: Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture: Hallyu Unbound ed Valentina Marinescu 2014
- Anthology: Understanding North Korea Indigenous Perspectives ed Han Jong-woo and Jung Tae-hern 2013
- Anthology: Origins of North Korea’s Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development ed Jae-Jung Suh 2012
- Kelly Y Jeong: Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema: Modernity Arrives Again 2011
- George Clayton Foulk, Samuel Hawley: America’s Man in Korea: The Private Letters of George C. Foulk, 1884-1887 2007
- George Clayton Foulk, Samuel Hawley: Inside the Hermit Kingdom: The 1884 Korea Travel Journal of George Clayton Foulk 2007
- Hong-Key Yoon: The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy 2006
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]