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]
Publisher: University of California Press
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Selected publications
- Theodore Jun Yoo: The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided 2020
- Christina Klein: Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema 2020
- Sungyun Lim: Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea 2018
- Jinsoo An: Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema 2018
- Seonmin Kim: Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations Between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 2017
- Theodore Jun Yoo: It’s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea 2016
- Hwang Kyung-moon: Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State, 1894–1945 2015
- John Lie: K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea 2014
- Todd A. Henry: Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 2014
- Anthology: No Alternative?: Experiments in South Korean Education ed Nancy Abelmann, Jung-ah Choi, So Jin Park 2013
- Nicholas Harkness: Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea 2013
- Serk-Bae Suh: Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s 2013
- Katharine HS Moon: Protesting America: Democracy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance 2013
- Ruth Barraclough: Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence, and Representation in Industrializing Korea 2012
- Anthology: Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World’s Leading Correspondents ed Matt McAllester 2011
- Paik Nak-chung: Division System in Crisis tr Kim Myung-hwan, Sol June-Kyu, Song Seung-chul, Young-joo Ryu 2011
- Dasan Jeong Yagyong: Admonitions on Governing the People: Manual for All Administrators tr Choi Byonghyon 2010
- E Taylor Atkins: Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945 2010
- Hyaeweol Choi: Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways 2009
- Anthology: Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan ed Sonia Ryang and John Lie 2009
- Theodore Jun Yoo: The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945 2008
- Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick: The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea 2008
- Ko Un: The Three Way Tavern tr Clare You, Richard Silberg 2006
- Anthology: Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan ed Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush and Joan Piggott 2003
- Nancy Abelmann: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement 1996
- Hong Hyegyong, JaHyun Kim Haboush: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong tr JaHyun Kim Haboush 1996
- Hahn Moo-Sook: Encounter tr Ok Young Kim Chang 1992
- Theresa Hak-kyung Cha: Dictée 1982
- Richard E Kim: Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood 1964
Book review: The Reluctant Communist
Charles Robert Jenkins: The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea University of California Press, 2008 “Our choices are what makes us who we are. Nobody knows that better than me.” So ends the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the only American to spend most of his life in North Korea … [Read More]