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]
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
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Selected publications
- David Krolikoski: Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea 2026
- Jörg Plassen, Trad / anon: The Invention of a Language of Emptiness: The “Chojang chungga-ŭi,” the Earliest Korean Exposition of Buddhism tr Choe Yeonshik, Jörg Plassen 2025
- Ilyon: Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea: A Translation of the Samguk yusa tr Boudewijn Walraven, Frits Vos, Grace Koh, Remco E Breuker 2025
- Serk-Bae Suh: Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea 2025
- Immanuel Kim: Rebranding North Korea: Changes in Consumer Culture and Visual Media 2025
- Pil Ho Kim: Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea 2024
- Seong Uk Kim: Monks and Literati: The Transformation of Buddhism in Late Chosŏn Korea 2024
- Anthology: Koryŏsa: The History of Koryŏ, the Annals of the Kings, 918–1095 ed Howard Kahm, John B. Duncan, Lee Junghoon, Park Jongki, and Edward J. Shultz 2024
- Hwaji Shin: Being Korean, Becoming Japanese? Nationhood, Citizenship, and Resistance in Japan 2024
- Dennis Wuerthner, Yi Illo: Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo tr Dennis Wuerthner 2024
- Park Nohae: Dawn of Labor tr Brother Anthony of Taizé, Cheehyung Harrison Kim 2024
- Shinyoung Kwon: Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931–1972 2023
- Vladimir Tikhonov: The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945 2023
- Gong Ji-young: Togani tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton 2023
- Dasan Jeong Yagyong, Don Baker, Robert E Buswell Jr: A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong tr Don Baker, Robert E Buswell Jr 2023
- Choi Gyu-seok: 100°C: South Korea’s 1987 Democracy Movement tr Anna Toombs, Brooke Shelton, Gia Kim, Jisun Park, Madeline D Collins, Nguyen Thi Huong Ly, Theodore Jun Yoo 2023
- Isabelle Sancho: The Master from Mountains and Fields: Prose Writings of Hwadam, Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk 2022
- Olga Fedorenko: Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads 2022
- Yoonkyung Lee: Between the Streets and the Assembly: Social Movements and Political Parties for the Making of Democracy in Korea 2022
- Paul S Cha: Balancing Communities: Nation, State, and Protestant Christianity in Korea, 1884–1942 2022
- Toae Hong Sŏk-mo: Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea: Tongguk sesigi by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo tr Werner Sasse 2021
- Anthology: Invented Traditions in North and South Korea ed Andrew David Jackson, Codruța Sîntionean, Remco Breuker, and CedarBough Saeji 2021
- Sunhee Koo: Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China 2021
- Anthology: Future Yet to Come: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Modern Korea ed Sonja M. Kim and Robert Ji-Song Ku 2021
- Lady Yi: The Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Woman’s Guide to Living in Late-Chosŏn Korea tr Kil Cha, Michael J Pettid 2021
- Sangpil Jin: Surviving Imperial Intrigues: Korea’s Struggle for Neutrality amid Empires, 1882–1907 2021
- Sonia Ryang: Language and Truth in North Korea 2021
- Adam Bohnet: Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chosŏn Korea 2020
- Richard D McBride II: Aspiring to Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism in Silla Korea 2020
- Sonja Kim: Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea 2020
- Uri Kaplan: Monastic Education in Korea: Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age 2020
- Dennis Wuerthner, Kim Si-seup: Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk: Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp tr Dennis Wuerthner 2020
- Yean-Ju Lee: Divorce in South Korea: Doing Gender and the Dynamics of Relationship Breakdown 2020
- Sujung Kim: Shinra Myōjin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian “Mediterranean” 2019
- Changyong Yang, Sejung Yang, William O'Grady: Jejueo: The Language of Korea’s Jeju Island 2019
- Cho Hae-jin: I Met Loh Kiwan tr Lee Ji-eun 2019
- Pak Chega: A Korean Scholar’s Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chega’s Discourse on Northern Learning tr Choi Byonghyon, Seung B Kye, Timothy V Atkinson 2019
- Anthology: Korea’s Premier Collection of Classical Literature: Selections from Sŏ Kŏjŏng’s Tongmunsŏn ed Sŏ Kŏjŏng, James B Lewis, Xin Wei 2019
- Cheeyun Lilian Kwon: Efficacious Underworld: The Evolution of Ten Kings Paintings in Medieval China and Korea 2019
- Minsoo Kang: Invincible and Righteous Outlaw: The Korean Hero Hong Gildong in Literature, History, and Culture 2018
- Yi Chung-hwan: A Place to Live: A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan’s T’aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements tr Inshil Choe Yoon 2018
- Bongkil Chung: The Scriptures of Won Buddhism: A Translation of Wonbulgyo kyojon with Introduction 2018
- Lee-Jay Cho, Various: The Park Chung Hee Era: Economic Development and Modernization of the Republic of Korea 2018
- Mark A Nathan: From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea 2018
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea-Japan Interactions 2018
- John Jorgensen, Trad / anon: The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏng Kam Nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea tr John Jorgensen 2018
- Immanuel Kim: Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction 2018
- Minjeong Kim: Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea 2018
- Kim Jong-gil: A Black Kite tr Brother Anthony of Taizé, Kim Jong-gil 2018
- Ross King: Seoul: Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave 2018
- Jiyeon Kang: Igniting the Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea 2018
- Ji-Yeon O Jo: Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration 2017
- Roald Maliangkay: Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions 2017
- Charles R Kim: Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea 2017
- Anthology: An Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature ed Peter H. Lee 2017
- Don Baker, Franklin Rausch: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea 2017
- Jin Y Park: Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp 2017
- Richard D McBride II, Uicheon: Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn tr Richard D. McBride II 2016
- Chinul, Robert E Buswell Jr: Numinous Awareness is Never Dark: The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul’s Excerpts on Zen Practice tr Robert E Buswell Jr 2016
- Mark E. Byington: The History and Archaeology of the Koguryo Kingdom 2016
- David M Robinson, Jeong Dojeon: Seeking Order in a Tumultuous Age: The Writings of Chŏng Tojŏn, a Korean Neo-Confucian tr David M Robinson 2016
- Sem Vermeersch, Xu Jing: A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing’s Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ tr Sem Vermeersch 2016
- Anthology: The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry ed Brother Anthony of Taizé and Chung Eun-Gwi 2016
- Andrew David Jackson: The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea 2016
- Youngju Ryu: Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea 2015
- Edward Y J Chung, Yi Hwang: A Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought: The Chasŏngnok (Record of Self-Reflection) by Yi Hwang (T’oegye) tr Edward Y J Chung 2015
- A Charles Muller, Gihwa, Jeong Dojeon: Korea’s Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatises of Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong) and Hamhŏ Tŭkt’ong (Kihwa) tr A Charles Muller 2015
- Sonia Ryang: Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity 2015
- John Jorgensen, Sŏsan Hyujŏng: A Handbook of Korean Zen Practice: A Mirror on the Sŏn School of Buddhism tr John Jorgensen 2015
- Albert L Park: Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea 2014
- Carl Young: Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way: The Tonghak and Chondogyo Movements and the Twilight of Korean Independence 2014
- Anthology: Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times ed Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid 2014
- Youn-mi Kim: New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryo 2014
- Jin Y Park, Kim Iryŏp / Kim Wonju: Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun tr Jin Y Park 2014
- Mark E. Byington: The Han Commanderies in Early Korean History 2013
- Young Ick Lew: The Making of the First Korean President: Syngman Rhee’s Quest for Independence 2013
- Inha Jung: Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea 2013
- Anthology: Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea ed Kyung-Ae Park 2013
- Gary Pak: Brothers Under a Same Sky 2013
- Anthology: Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era ed Christopher P. Hanscom, Walter K. Lew, and Youngju Ryu 2013
- George Kallander: Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea 2013
- Roberta Chang, Seonju Lee: When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903–1940 2012
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea 3: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology 2012
- Richard D McBride II: State and Society in Middle and Late Silla 2011
- Anthology: Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance ed Laurel Kendall 2010
- John D Palmer: The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Journey toward Empowerment 2010
- Anthology: Into the Light: An Anthology of Literature by Koreans in Japan ed Melissa L. Wender 2010
- Andrew Killick: In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Changguk 2010
- Tatiana Gabroussenko: Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy 2010
- Anthology: Questioning Minds ed Yung-hee Kim 2010
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea 2: The Samhan Period in Korean History 2009
- Timothy S Lee: Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea 2009
- Alexander Vovin: Koreo-Japonica: A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin 2009
- Laurel Kendall: Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion 2009
- Anthology: The Red Room ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton 2009
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea 1: Reconsidering Early Korean History through Archaeology 2008
- Don Baker: Korean Spirituality 2008
- Anthology: Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography ed Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea 2007
- Andrei Lankov: Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956 2007
- Michael Robinson: Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History 2007
- Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton 2006
- Anthology: Korean Language in Culture and Society ed Ho-min Sohn 2005
- Anthology: Christianity in Korea ed Robert Buswell, Jr., and Timothy S. Lee 2005
- Robert E Buswell Jr: Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions 2005
- Hahn Moo-Sook: And So Flows History tr Young-key Kim-Renaud 2005
- Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton 2005
- Mary Yu Danico: The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii 2004
- Theresa Hyun: Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century 2003
- Nancy Abelmann: The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea 2003
- Chan E Park: Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing 2003
- Yang Gui-ja: A Distant and Beautiful Place tr Julie Pickering, Kim So-young 2002
- Michael J Seth: Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea 2002
- Michael Finch: Min Yong-hwan: A Political Biography 2002
- Linda S Lewis: Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising 2002
- Anthology: Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea ed Laurel Kendall 2001
- Edward J Shultz: Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea 2000
- Chong Ki-Sheok: Black Flower in the Sky: Poems of a Korean Bridegroom in Hiroshima tr Elizabeth Ogata, Naoshi Koriyama 2000
- Trad / anon: The Record of the Black Dragon Year tr Peter H Lee 2000
- Wayne Patterson: The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 2000
- Oh Tae-seok: The Metacultural Theater of Oh T’ae-Sok: Five Plays from the Korean Avant-garde tr Ah-jeong Kim, RB Graves 1999
- Anthology: A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction ed Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton 1998
- Gary Pak: A Ricepaper Airplane 1998
- Miho Choo, William O'Grady: Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension 1996
- Anthology: South Korea’s Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence ed Kenneth M Wells 1995
- Kajiyama Toshiyuki: The Clan Records tr Yoshiko Dykstra 1995
- Wayne Patterson: The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910 1994
- Chinul, Robert E Buswell Jr: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen tr Robert E Buswell Jr 1991
- Anthology: Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Dynasty Poets ed Peter H Lee 1991
- Laurel Kendall: Shamans, Housewives and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life 1985
- Anthology: Postwar Korean Short Stories: An Anthology ed Kim Chong-un 1984
- Chinul, Robert E Buswell Jr: The Korean approach to Zen: the collected works of Chinul tr Robert E Buswell Jr 1983
- Anthology: Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories ed Peter H Lee 1974
- Anthology: Poems from Korea: A historical anthology ed Peter H Lee 1974
Upcoming literature and fiction titles in 2020 [updated]
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I’m hoping that, as in previous years, by posting my own list of upcoming literature and fiction titles – pulled together by some targeted searching on Amazon and a trawl through Barbara J Zitwer’s website – I might persuade others to supplement it from their own specialist knowledge. Whatever happens, books inevitably fall through the … [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 literature and fiction titles for 2019
Here’s my first attempt at compiling a list of fiction and poetry titles coming up in 2019. Let me know what I’ve missed. Unlike my separate list of non-fiction I have not exercised any editorial control here: this is everything I have been able to find. The list is in four parts: Modern and contemporary … [Read More]
Brief review: A Ricepaper Airplane
Gary Pak: A Ricepaper Airplane University of Hawai’i Press, 1998 Synospis (from the back of the book) From a hospital bed a dying man unfolds the tale of an arduous life on the fringes of a Hawai’i sugar plantation in the 1920s. There Kim Sung-wha – labourer, patriot, revolutionary, aviator – envisioned building an airplane … [Read More]
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope Originally published 1960. Translation by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, University of Hawaii Press, 2005 Hwang Sun-won’s Trees on a Slope is one of the few Korean novels directly dealing with the Korean War to be available in English. That’s not to say it’s anything like the bludgeoning experience of … [Read More]
Kajiyama Toshiyuki: The Clan Records – Five Stories of Korea
The Clan Records – Five Stories of Korea: The Clan Records | Seeking Life Amidst Death: The Last Day of the War | When the Hibiscus Blooms | The Remembered Shadow of the Yi Dynasty | A Crane on a Dunghill: Seoul in 1936 Kajiyama Toshiyuki, translated by Yoshiko Dykstra (University of Hawaii Press, 1995) … [Read More]