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
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Selected publications
- Anthology: Invented Traditions in North and South Korea ed Andrew David Jackson, Codruța Sîntionean, Remco Breuker, and CedarBough Saeji, University of Hawai'i Press 2021
- Sunhee Koo: Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China, University of Hawai'i Press 2021
- 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
- Adam Bohnet: Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chosŏn Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2020
- Richard D McBride II: Aspiring to Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism in Silla Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2020
- Sonja Kim: Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2020
- 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
- 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, 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
- Cheeyun Lilian Kwon: Efficacious Underworld: The Evolution of Ten Kings Paintings in Medieval China and Korea, 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, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements tr Inshil Choe Yoon, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Bongkil Chung: The Scriptures of Won Buddhism: A Translation of Wonbulgyo kyojon with Introduction, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Lee-Jay Cho, Various: The Park Chung Hee Era: Economic Development and Modernization of the Republic of Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Mark A Nathan: From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea-Japan Interactions, University of Hawai'i Press 2018
- John Jorgensen, Trad / anon: The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏng Kam Nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea 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
- Minjeong Kim: Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea, 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
- Roald Maliangkay: Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions, University of Hawai'i Press 2017
- Charles R Kim: Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2017
- 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
- Jin Y Park: Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp, University of Hawai'i Press 2017
- Richard D McBride II, Uicheon: Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn tr Richard D. McBride II, University of Hawai'i Press 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, University of Hawai'i Press 2016
- Mark E. Byington: The History and Archaeology of the Koguryo Kingdom, University of Hawai'i Press 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, University of Hawai'i Press 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, University of Hawai'i Press 2016
- 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
- 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, 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
- John Jorgensen, Sŏsan Hyujŏng: A Handbook of Korean Zen Practice: A Mirror on the Sŏn School of Buddhism tr John Jorgensen, University of Hawai'i Press 2015
- Albert L Park: Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2014
- Carl Young: Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way: The Tonghak and Chondogyo Movements and the Twilight of Korean Independence, University of Hawai'i Press 2014
- 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
- Youn-mi Kim: New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryo, University of Hawai'i Press 2014
- Jin Y Park, Kim Iryŏp: Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun tr Jin Y Park, University of Hawai'i Press 2014
- Mark E. Byington: The Han Commanderies in Early Korean History, University of Hawai'i Press 2013
- Young Ick Lew: The Making of the First Korean President: Syngman Rhee’s Quest for Independence, University of Hawai'i Press 2013
- Inha Jung: Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2013
- Anthology: Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea ed Kyung-Ae Park, University of Hawai'i Press 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, University of Hawai'i Press 2013
- George Kallander: Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2013
- Roberta Chang, Seonju Lee: When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903–1940, University of Hawai'i Press 2012
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea 3: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology, University of Hawai'i Press 2012
- Richard D McBride II: State and Society in Middle and Late Silla, University of Hawai'i Press 2011
- Anthology: Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance ed Laurel Kendall, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- John D Palmer: The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Journey toward Empowerment, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- Andrew Killick: In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Changguk, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- Tatiana Gabroussenko: Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- Anthology: Questioning Minds ed Yung-hee Kim, University of Hawai'i Press 2010
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea 2: The Samhan Period in Korean History, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- Timothy S Lee: Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- Alexander Vovin: Koreo-Japonica: A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin, University of Hawai'i Press 2009
- 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
- Mark E. Byington: Early Korea 1: Reconsidering Early Korean History through Archaeology, University of Hawai'i Press 2008
- Don Baker: Korean Spirituality, University of Hawai'i Press 2008
- Anthology: Sitings: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography ed Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea, University of Hawai'i Press 2007
- Andrei Lankov: Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956, University of Hawai'i Press 2007
- Michael Robinson: Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History, University of Hawai'i Press 2007
- Cho Se-hui: The Dwarf tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Hawai'i Press 2006
- Anthology: Christianity in Korea ed Robert Buswell, Jr., and Timothy S. Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
- Robert E Buswell Jr: Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions, University of Hawai'i Press 2005
- 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
- Mary Yu Danico: The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii, University of Hawai'i Press 2004
- Theresa Hyun: Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century, University of Hawai'i Press 2003
- Chan E Park: Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing, University of Hawai'i Press 2003
- Yang Gui-ja: A Distant and Beautiful Place tr Julie Pickering, Kim So-young, University of Hawai'i Press 2002
- Michael J Seth: Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2002
- Michael Finch: Min Yong-hwan: A Political Biography, 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
- Wayne Patterson: The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973, 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
- Miho Choo, William O'Grady: Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension, University of Hawai'i Press 1996
- Anthology: South Korea’s Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence ed Kenneth M Wells, University of Hawai'i Press 1995
- Kajiyama Toshiyuki: The Clan Records tr Yoshiko Dykstra, University of Hawai'i Press 1995
- Wayne Patterson: The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910, University of Hawai'i Press 1994
- Chinul, Robert E Buswell Jr: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen tr Robert E Buswell Jr, University of Hawai'i Press 1991
- Anthology: Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Dynasty Poets ed Peter H Lee, University of Hawai'i Press 1991
- Laurel Kendall: Shamans, Housewives and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life, University of Hawai'i Press 1985
- Anthology: Postwar Korean Short Stories: An Anthology ed Kim Chong-un, University of Hawai'i Press 1984
- Chinul, Robert E Buswell Jr: The Korean approach to Zen: the collected works of Chinul tr Robert E Buswell Jr, University of Hawai'i Press 1983
- 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
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