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 […]
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Selected publications
- Lady Yi: The Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Woman’s Guide to Living in Late-Chosŏn Korea tr Kil Cha, Michael J Pettid, University of Hawai'i Press 2021
- Sangpil Jin: Surviving Imperial Intrigues: Korea’s Struggle for Neutrality amid Empires, 1882–1907, University of Hawai'i Press 2021
- Sonia Ryang: Language and Truth in North Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2021
- Uri Kaplan: Monastic Education in Korea: Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age, University of Hawai'i Press 2020
- Dennis Wuerthner, Kim Si-seup: Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk: Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp tr Dennis Wuerthner, University of Hawai'i Press 2020
- Yean-Ju Lee: Divorce in South Korea: Doing Gender and the Dynamics of Relationship Breakdown, University of Hawai'i Press 2020
- Changyong Yang, Sejung Yang, William O'Grady: Jejueo: The Language of Korea’s Jeju Island, University of Hawai'i Press 2019
- Cho Hae-jin: I Met Loh Kiwan tr Lee Ji-eun, University of Hawai'i Press 2019
- Anthology: Korea’s Premier Collection of Classical Literature: Selections from Sŏ Kŏjŏng’s Tongmunsŏn ed Sŏ Kŏjŏng, James B Lewis, Xin Wei, University of Hawai'i Press 2019
- Kang Minsoo: Invincible and Righteous Outlaw: The Korean Hero Hong Gildong in Literature, History, and Culture, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Yi Chung-hwan: A Place to Live: A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan’s T’aengniji tr Inshil Choe Yoon, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Trad / anon: The Foresight of Dark Knowing tr John Jorgensen, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Immanuel Kim: Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Kim Jong-gil: A Black Kite tr Brother Anthony of Taizé, Kim Jong-gil, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Anthology: An Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature ed Peter H. Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 2017
- Don Baker, Franklin Rausch: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2017
- Anthology: The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry ed Brother Anthony of Taizé and Chung Eun-Gwi, University of Hawai'i Press 2016
- Andrew David Jackson: The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2016
- Youngju Ryu: Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 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, University of Hawai'i Press 2015
- Anthology: Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times ed Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid, University of Hawai'i Press 2014
- George Kallander: Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2013
- Anthology: Questioning Minds ed Yung-hee Kim, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- Laurel Kendall: Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- Anthology: The Red Room ed Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- Don Baker: Korean Spirituality, University of Hawai'i Press 2008
- Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2006
- Hahn Moo-Sook: And So Flows History tr Young-key Kim-Renaud, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
- Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
- Yang Gui-ja: A Distant and Beautiful Place tr Julie Pickering, Kim So-young, University of Hawai'i Press 2002
- Linda S Lewis: Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, University of Hawai'i Press 2002
- Chong Ki-Sheok: Black Flower in the Sky: Poems of a Korean Bridegroom in Hiroshima tr Elizabeth Ogata, Naoshi Koriyama, University of Hawai'i Press 2000
- Trad / anon: The Record of the Black Dragon Year tr Peter H Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 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, University of Hawai'i Press 1999
- Anthology: A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction ed Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 1998
- Kajiyama Toshiyuki: The Clan Records tr Yoshiko Dykstra, University of Hawai'i Press 1995
- Anthology: Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Dynasty Poets ed Peter H Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 1991
- Anthology: Postwar Korean Short Stories: An Anthology ed Kim Chong-un, University of Hawai'i Press 1984
- Anthology: Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-century Korean Stories ed Peter H Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 1974
- Anthology: Poems from Korea: A historical anthology ed Peter H Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 1974
Upcoming literature and fiction titles in 2020 [updated]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]