Two of my favourite essay collections. I’m definitely going to be registering for this University of Edinburgh Asian Studies Roundtable. Rewriting the history of culture in 1970s and 1980s South Korea Wednesday 17 November 2021, 4 – 6 pm (UK time) Dr Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan) and Dr Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California) … [Read More]
Translator: Youngju Ryu
Selected translations
- 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
- 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
- Yang Gui-ja: Strength from Sorrow tr Youngju Ryu, Cross Cultural Communications 2005
- Kim Mi-hyun, Lee Kwangho, Lee Namho, Wu Chan Je: Twentieth Century Korean Literature tr Youngju Ryu, Eastbridge 2005
Publications by Youngju Ryu as author
- Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea, University of Hawai'i Press 2015
What have we been reading in 2019? Here are the highs and lows of our reading diary
I alternate my reading, on no systematic basis, between fiction and non-fiction, trying to maintain a balance between keeping up to date with the most important new publications and working through the guilt pile of past publications that I failed to read when they came out. I don’t have time to read much apart from … [Read More]
A look back at some of the books of 2016
To cut to the chase, here are my two books of the year for 2016. For more detail, read on. Literature in translation The world of translated fiction seems to have been dominated by two names this year, one Korean and one British. The Korean name of course is Han Kang. Just as The Vegetarian … [Read More]