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 […]
Publisher: SUNY
Selected publications
- Christopher Lovins: King Chŏngjo, an Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea, SUNY 2019
- Anthology: P’ungsu: A Study of Geomancy in Korea ed Hong-key Yoon, SUNY 2018
- Byungmo Chung, Sunglim Kim: Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, SUNY 2017
- Anthology: Korean Religions in Relation: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ed Anselm K. Min, SUNY 2016
- Dongyoun Hwang: Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919-1984, SUNY 2016
- Choi Hee An: A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church, SUNY 2015
- Jesook Song: Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea, SUNY 2014
- Bongkil Chung, Chŏngsan Sunim: The Dharma Master Chongsan of Won Buddhism: Analects and Writings tr Bongkil Chung, SUNY 2012
- Anthology: Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea: New Perspectives ed Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid, SUNY 2011
- Anthology: Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality, SUNY 2011
- Anthology: Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism ed Jin Y Park, SUNY 2010
- Sung Bae Park: One Korean’s Approach to Buddhism: The Mom/Momjit Paradigm, SUNY 2009
- Anthology: Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema ed Frances Gateward, SUNY 2007
- Anthology: Understanding Korean Politics: An Introduction ed Soong Hoom Kil, Chung-in Moon, SUNY 2001
- David Chung: Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea, SUNY 2001
- Iksop Lee, S Robert Ramsey: The Korean Language, SUNY 2001
- A Charles Muller, Gihwa: The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism’s Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by the Son Monk Kihwa) tr A Charles Muller, SUNY 1999
- Anthology: Korean-American Relations 1866-1997 ed Yur-Bok Lee, Wayne Patterson, SUNY 1998
- Anthology: Confucianism and the Family ed Walter H. Slote, George A. De Vos, SUNY 1998
- Choong Soon Kim: A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur: A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891–1955, SUNY 1998
- Mark Setton: Chong Yagyong: Korea’s Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism, SUNY 1997
- Wi Jo Kang: Christ and Caesar in Modern Korea: A History of Christianity and Politics, SUNY 1997
- Eun Mee Kim: Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990, SUNY 1997
- Hyung-Koo Lee: The Korean Economy: Perspectives for the 21st Century, SUNY 1996
- Edward Y J Chung: The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’Oegye and Yi Yulgok: A Reappraisal of the “Four-Seven Thesis” and Its Practical Implications For Self-Cultivation, SUNY 1995
- Michael C Kalton, Oaksook C Kim, Samuel Yamashita, Sung Bae Park, Tu Wei-ming, Youngchan Ro: The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought, SUNY 1994
Book review: Christopher Lovins on King Chŏngjo
Thus far this year I’ve been focusing on literature in translation. As I wait for the next major wave of publications to hit the shops, I’ve turned my attention to non-fiction. And the first title I reached for was Christopher Lovins’s King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea, which came out in paperback […]
New and upcoming non-fiction titles for 2019
Unlike my list that attempts to compile upcoming literature and fiction titles, here I’ve had to be selective in what to include, otherwise the length of this post would be unmanageable. Nevertheless I’ve almost certainly missed out some titles that I’d want to have on my bookshelf. I’ve divided the list into seven sections: Literature […]
Upcoming books on Korean film
Just as the Korean film scene seems to be losing some of its buzz, books about it are coming thick and fast. 2004 saw the Wallflower Press book (though it seems only last year that it came out); 2005 saw the Julian Stringer / Shin Chi-yun book; and last year came the book on Kim […]