When the issue of comfort women has been with us since the Pacific War, to re-emerge in 1991 when Kim Haksun came forward as the first to announce herself as victim, it is astonishing that we had to wait until 2016 for what is, according to Bonnie Oh’s introduction (p ix), “the first Korean novel […]
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Selected publications
- Maya KH Stiller: Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea, University of Washington Press 2021
- Hwisang Cho: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea, University of Washington Press 2020
- Kim Soom: One Left tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, University of Washington Press 2020
- Anthology: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States ed Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson, University of Washington Press 2020
- David Fedman: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea, University of Washington Press 2020
- Hyung-A Kim: Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy, University of Washington Press 2020
- Anthology: International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945 ed Yong-Chool Ha, University of Washington Press 2019
- Mary Paik Lee: Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, University of Washington Press 2019
- Kyoim Yun: The Shaman’s Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island, University of Washington Press 2019
- Erik Mobrand: Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, University of Washington Press 2019
- Anthology: Beyond Death: the politics of suicide and martyrdom in Korea ed Charles R. Kim, Jungwon Kim, Hwasook B. Nam and Serk-Bae Suh, University of Washington Press 2019
- Sunglim Kim: Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art, University of Washington Press 2018
- J.P. Park: A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850), University of Washington Press 2018
- Juhn Y Ahn: Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea, University of Washington Press 2018
- Jisoo Kim: The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea, University of Washington Press 2017
- Anthology: Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan ed Clark W. Sorensen and Andrea Gevurtz Arai, University of Washington Press 2016
- Anthology: South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad ed Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon and Sumie Okazaki, University of Washington Press 2015
- Yi Song-mi: Searching for Modernity: Western Influence and True-View Landscape in Korean Painting of the Late Choson Period, University of Washington Press 2015
- Anthology: Political Leadership in Korea ed Dae-Sook Suh and Chae-Jin Lee, University of Washington Press 2014
- Carter J Eckert: Offspring of Empire: The Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945, University of Washington Press 2014
- Anthology: Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea ed Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim, University of Washington Press 2014
- Vincent Brant: An Affair with Korea: Memories of South Korea in the 1960s, University of Washington Press 2014
- Hyung Il Pai: Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity, University of Washington Press 2014
- Brandon Palmer: Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan’s War, 1937-1945, University of Washington Press 2013
- Anthology: Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 ed Hong Yung Lee, Yong-Chool Ha and Clark W. Sorensen, University of Washington Press 2013
- Anthology: Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence ed Hyung-A Kim and Clark W. Sorensen, University of Washington Press 2011
- Hwasook Nam: Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee, University of Washington Press 2011
- Anthology: The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture ed Sun Joo Kim, University of Washington Press 2010
- Sun Joo Kim: Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812, University of Washington Press 2009
- Mark Caprio: Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, University of Washington Press 2009
- Chung-shin Park: Protestantism and Politics in Korea, University of Washington Press 2009
- Sharon A Suh: Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple, University of Washington Press 2004
- Anthology: Korea’s Future and the Great Powers ed Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard J. Ellings, University of Washington Press 2001
- John Duncan: The Origins of the Choson Dynasty, University of Washington Press 2000
- Gi-Wook Shin: Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea, University of Washington Press 1997
- James B Palais: Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty, University of Washington Press 1996
- Michael Robinson: Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925, University of Washington Press 1989
- Clark W Sorensen: Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization, University of Washington Press 1988
SOAS online seminar: One Left, by Kim Soom
It’s been a while since we last had a SOAS Friday evening seminar, but this should be worth the wait. One Left: A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort women Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton (Translators) Friday 4 December 2020, 5 – 7pm Online. Register via Zoom […]
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 […]