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
- Bongkil Chung, Chŏngsan Sunim: The Dharma Master Chongsan of Won Buddhism: Analects and Writings tr Bongkil Chung, SUNY 2012
- Anthology: Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism ed Jin Y Park, SUNY 2010
- Anthology: Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema ed Frances Gateward, SUNY 2007
- Eun Mee Kim: Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990, SUNY 1997
- 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 […]
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 […]