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]
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Selected publications
- Ra Jong-yil: Inside North Korea’s Theocracy: The Rise and Sudden Fall of Jang Song-thaek tr Jinna Park 2019
- Christopher Lovins: King Chŏngjo, an Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea 2019
- Anthology: P’ungsu: A Study of Geomancy in Korea ed Hong-key Yoon 2018
- Byungmo Chung, Sunglim Kim: Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens 2017
- Anthology: Korean Religions in Relation: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ed Anselm K. Min 2016
- Dongyoun Hwang: Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919-1984 2016
- Choi Hee-an: A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church 2015
- Jesook Song: Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea 2014
- Bongkil Chung, Chŏngsan Sunim: The Dharma Master Chongsan of Won Buddhism: Analects and Writings tr Bongkil Chung 2012
- Anthology: Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea: New Perspectives ed Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid 2011
- Anthology: Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality 2011
- Anthology: Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism ed Jin Y Park 2010
- Sung Bae Park: One Korean’s Approach to Buddhism: The Mom/Momjit Paradigm 2009
- Anthology: Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema ed Frances Gateward 2007
- Anthology: Understanding Korean Politics: An Introduction ed Soong Hoom Kil, Chung-in Moon 2001
- David Chung: Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea 2001
- Iksop Lee, S Robert Ramsey: The Korean Language 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 1999
- Anthology: Korean-American Relations 1866-1997 ed Yur-Bok Lee, Wayne Patterson 1998
- Anthology: Confucianism and the Family ed Walter H. Slote, George A. De Vos 1998
- Choong Soon Kim: A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur: A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891–1955 1998
- Mark Setton: Chong Yagyong: Korea’s Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism 1997
- Wi Jo Kang: Christ and Caesar in Modern Korea: A History of Christianity and Politics 1997
- Eun Mee Kim: Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 1997
- Hyung-Koo Lee: The Korean Economy: Perspectives for the 21st Century 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 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 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 … [Read More]
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 … [Read More]
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 … [Read More]