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 … [Read More]
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Selected publications
- Maya KH Stiller: Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea 2021
- Hwisang Cho: The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea 2020
- Kim Soom: One Left tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton 2020
- Anthology: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States ed Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson 2020
- David Fedman: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea 2020
- Hyung-A Kim: Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy 2020
- Anthology: International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945 ed Yong-Chool Ha 2019
- Mary Paik Lee: Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America 2019
- Kyoim Yun: The Shaman’s Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island 2019
- Erik Mobrand: Top-Down Democracy in South Korea 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 2019
- Sunglim Kim: Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art 2018
- J.P. Park: A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850) 2018
- Juhn Y Ahn: Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea 2018
- Jisoo Kim: The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea 2017
- Dorothy Ko: The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China 2017
- Anthology: Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan ed Clark W. Sorensen and Andrea Gevurtz Arai 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 2015
- Yi Song-mi: Searching for Modernity: Western Influence and True-View Landscape in Korean Painting of the Late Choson Period 2015
- Anthology: Political Leadership in Korea ed Dae-Sook Suh and Chae-Jin Lee 2014
- Carter J Eckert: Offspring of Empire: The Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 2014
- Anthology: Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea ed Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim 2014
- Vincent Brandt: An Affair with Korea: Memories of South Korea in the 1960s 2014
- Hyung Il Pai: Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity 2014
- Brandon Palmer: Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan’s War, 1937-1945 2013
- Anthology: Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 ed Hong Yung Lee, Yong-Chool Ha and Clark W. Sorensen 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 2011
- Hwasook Nam: Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee 2011
- Anthology: The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture ed Sun Joo Kim 2010
- Sun Joo Kim: Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812 2009
- Mark Caprio: Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 2009
- Chung-shin Park: Protestantism and Politics in Korea 2009
- Sharon A Suh: Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple 2004
- Anthology: Korea’s Future and the Great Powers ed Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard J. Ellings 2001
- John Duncan: The Origins of the Choson Dynasty 2000
- Gi-Wook Shin: Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea 1997
- James B Palais: Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty 1996
- Michael Robinson: Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925 1989
- Clark W Sorensen: Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization 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 … [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]