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Korean Studies

Asian Archaeology

Keyhole-shaped Tombs and Early Korean-Japanese Relations

A review of Keyhole-shaped Tombs and Unspoken Frontiers: Exploring the Borderlands of Early Korean-Japanese Relations in the 5th-6th Centuries, by Den...
China

Globalization and Consumer Markets in East Asia

A Review of Making East Asian Consumers: Market Formation and Evolution of Demand in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, by Solee Irene Shin. Over....
Cultural Anthropology

The (Geo)Politics of Korean Cosmetic Surgery

A review of The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture, by Sharon Heijin Lee. This disserta...
Diaspora/Migration

Cultural Clash: Neoliberalism, Global Educational Migration, and American Evangelical Pedagogy

A review of Fragile Civility: An Evangelical American School Meets Korean Educational Sojourners in Neoliberal Time, by Hye-Young Park. The trends amo...
Diaspora/Migration

Korean in Northeast China: Ambiguous Identity as Survival Tactic

A review of From Chaoxian ren to Chaoxian zu: Korean Identity under Japanese Empire and Chinese Nation-State, by Chong Eun Ahn. There is a growing...
Korea

The Republic of Korea’s Traditional Performing Arts in the 21st Century

A review of Transmission and Performance: Memory, Heritage and Authenticity in Korean Mask Dramas, by CedarBough Tam Saeji. CedarBough Saeji’s dissert...
Korea

Anti-Communism and Adoption in Cold War South Korea

A Review of A New American Comes “Home”: Korean War Adoptees and Cold War Sentiments of Race and Nation, by Susie Woo. Tracing the histories...
Korea

Changing Conceptions of Religion in South Korea

A review of Appropriation of Religion: The Re-formation of the Korean Notion of Religion in Global Society, by Kyuhoon Cho. Descend from a dusk sky......
Asian Archaeology

Asian Archaeological and Textual Tensions

Understanding Tensions between Hegemonic Texts and Archaeology in East Asia My encounter with the tension between texts and archaeology began with my ...
Korea

Korean Modernism in Literature and Film

A review of Korean Modernism at the Margin: Visualizing Affect, Body and Exteriority in Modern Literature and Film, by Hyun S. Park. Inspired by Raymo...
Korea

Cultural Films and the National Imaginary in South Korea

A review of Uneven Screens, Contested Identities: USIS, Cultural Films, and the National Imaginary in South Korea, 1945-1972, by Han Sang Kim. Han San...
Korea

South Korean Radicalism in an Age of Neoliberalism

A review of After the Crossroads: Neo-liberal Globalization, Democratic Transition, and Progressive Urban Community Activism in South Korea, by Kwang-...
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