Catégorie : Journal of Korean Studies

Thematic Issue: Unsettling the National in Korean Cinema

Guest Editor: JungBong Choi

Note from the Editors / Clark W. Sorensen, Donald Baker, Chiho Sawada, Tracy L. Stober, Joshua Van Lieu

Introduction / JungBong Choi

Articles

National Cinema: An Anachronistic Delirium? / JungBong Choi

Visibility, Nationality, Archive / Steven Chung

The Power of Representation: Korean Movie Narrators and Authority / Roald Maliangkay

The Transnational Constitution of Im Kwon-Taek’s Minjok Cinema in Chokpo, Sŏp’yŏnje, and Ch’wihwasŏn / Kyung Hyun Kim

Restoring the Transnational from the Abyss of Ethnonational Film Historiography: The Case of Chung Chang Wha / Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park

Cartography of Catastrophe: Pre-Colonial Surveys, Post-Colonial Vampires, and the Plight of Korean Modernity /Soyoung Kim

Book Reviews

Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (review) / Su Yun Kim

Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (review) / Michael Kim

Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (review) / Ivo Plsek

Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics, and: The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (review) / Scott Thomas Bruce

Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (review) / Kyu Hyun Kim

Articles

Note from the Editors / Clark W. Sorensen, Donald Baker, Tracy L. Stober, Joshua Van Lieu

Marketing Assimilation: The Press and the Formation of the Japanese-Korean Colonial Relationship / Mark E. Caprio, pp. 1-25

From Developmentalist to Conservationist Criticism: The New Narrative of South Korea in North Korean Propaganda / Tatiana Gabroussenko, pp. 27-61

Political Uses of Confucianism in North Korea / Jin Woong Kang, pp. 63-87

The Domestication of South Korean Pre-College Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium / Jiyeon Kang, Nancy Abelmann, pp. 89-118

Awakened, Awaiting, or Meditating?: Readdressing a Silla Period Image from the Buddha Valley on Mount Nam / Sunkyung Kim, pp. 119-150

Film Review

The Past Is a Strange Country (Kwagŏ nŭn nassŏn narada) (review) /Kyu Hyun Kim, pp. 151-153

Book Reviews

A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 (review) / Seung B. Kye, pp. 155-157

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society (review) / Yoon Sung Choi, pp. 157-160

Articles

Decline of a Confucian Mecca: Development of Rice Farming and Regional Development in Chosŏn Korea / Sung Woo Kim, pp. 1-40

Huddling under the Imperial Umbrella: A Korean Approach to Ming China in the Early 1500s / Seung B. Kye, pp. 41-66

The Paradox of Postcolonial Korean Nationalism: State-Sponsored Cultural Policy in South Korea, 1965-Present / Sang Mi Park, pp. 67-93

Separate but Engaged: Human Subjectivity in the Poetry of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong / Deberniere Torrey, pp. 95-122

Book Reviews

Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee (review) / Tae Yang Kwak, pp. 123-125

Ha Dongsan and Colonial Korean Buddhism: Balancing Sectarianism and Ecumenism (review) / Richard D. McBride II, pp. 126-131

Kyŏngju Things: Assembling Place (review) / Eleana Kim, pp. 131-136

Lost Souls: Stories (review) / Christopher P. Hanscom, pp. 136-138

Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers (review) /Jin-kyung Lee, pp. 138-140

Articles

“Wise Mother, Good Wife”: A Transcultural Discursive Construct in Modern Korea / Hyaeweol Choi, pp. 1-33

Kim Yujŏng’s “Thoughts from a Sickbed” and the Critique of Empiricist Discourse / Christopher Hanscom, pp. 35-60

Widows’ Position and Agency in the Late Chosŏn Dynasty / Ji-Young Jung, pp. 61-82

The Politics of Condolence: Contested Representations of Tribute in Late Nineteenth-Century Chosŏn-Qing Relations /Joshua Van Lieu, pp. 83-115

Review Essay

Japanese Narratives on Life in Late-Colonial Korea: From Wartime to Repatriation / Mark E. Caprio, pp. 117-132

Book Reviews

Art Under Control in North Korea, and: North Korean Posters (review) / Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, pp. 133-137

Chibae wa chach’i: Singminji sigi ch’ollak ŭi sam kungmyŏn kujo (review) / Kyu Hyun Kim, pp. 137-142

Articles

Peripheral Influence: The Sinŭiju Student Incident of 1945 and the Impact of Soviet Occupation in North Korea / Adam Cathcart, Charles Kraus, pp. 1-27

Calls for Self-Sacrifice in North Korean Creative Writing in the Late 1900s to 2000s / Tatiana Gabroussenko, pp. 29-56

Pak Ch’anghwa and the Hwarang segi Manuscripts / Richard D. McBride II, pp. 57-88

The Chinese Ancestors in a Korean Descent Group’s Genealogies / Kenneth R. Robinson, pp. 89-114

Book Reviews

Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaŏm Synthesis in Silla Korea (review) / Jörg Plassen, pp. 115-118

20th Century Korean Art, and: Modern Korean Ink Painting (review) / Frank Hoffmann, pp. 118-123

Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea (review) / Gari Ledyard, pp. 123-132

The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea (review) /Kirk W. Larsen, pp. 132-134

A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century, and: Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea (review) / James B. Lewis, pp. 135-143