King R, Park SN ed.
Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun Ch'onghwa: A Story Collection from Ninteenth-Century Korea. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press; 2016.
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Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam stories in this volume feature ghosts and magic, courtesans and sex, and court politics. They constitute both an entertaining literary collection and a rich treasure trove of information about life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Korea.
The first volume in an ongoing series of translations of classic Korean literature by the Canadian missionary James Scarth Gale (1863–1937), Score One for the Dancing Girl includes the original literary Sinitic (hanmun) text and Gale’s English translation. Both the hanmun and English are extensively annotated. Introductory essays by Ross King and Si Nae Park discuss the yadam genre, Gale’s life and career, and the ways in which his background as a Christian missionary affected the translations.
Kim SJ ed.
Chejudo Yohaeng Ilchi (Travelogue to Cheju). Seoul, Korea: Minsokwon; 2016.
Website Link『제주도여행일지』는 1909년 5월10일에서 9월 27일까지 이름을 알 수 없는 한 일본인이 기록한 그림일기이다.
이 기간 일기의 저자와 그 일행은 도쿄를 떠나 시모노세키에서 배를 타고 부산과 목포를 거쳐 제주도에 도착하여 제주도 산간지역에 이미 설치되어 있던 세군데의 표고버섯재배장을 둘러보고 표고버섯 재배실험을 한 후 수확한 표고버섯을 가지고 제주도를 떠나 일본으로 되돌아왔다. 저자는 여행 중 보고 경험한 것들은 물론, 제주도의 산천과 함께 표고버섯 재배과정을 자세히 그림과 글로 기록하였다. 대한제국이 공식적으로 일본의 식민지가 되기 직전 일본의 소자본가들이 식민경영에 뛰어드는 구체적인 사례를 보여주는 자료이면서 당시 제주도의 생활상과 민속연구에도 도움을 줄 수 있는 보기드문 자료이다.
Eckert CJ.
Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2016.
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For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea’s dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country’s long history of militarization—a history personified in South Korea’s paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.
The first volume of a comprehensive two-part history, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945 reveals how the foundations of the dynamic but strongly authoritarian Korean state that emerged under Park were laid during the period of Japanese occupation. As a cadet in the Manchurian Military Academy, Park and his fellow officers absorbed the Imperial Japanese Army’s ethos of victory at all costs and absolute obedience to authority. Japanese military culture decisively shaped Korea’s postwar generation of military leaders. When Park seized power in an army coup in 1961, he brought this training and mentality to bear on the project of Korean modernization.
Korean society under Park exuded a distinctively martial character, Eckert shows. Its hallmarks included the belief that the army should intervene in politics in times of crisis; that a central authority should plan and monitor the country’s economic system; that the Korean people’s “can do” spirit would allow them to overcome any challenge; and that the state should maintain a strong disciplinary presence in society, reserving the right to use violence to maintain order.
Carter J. Eckert is Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University.
Byington ME.
The Ancient State of Puyŏ in Northeast Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2016.
Website Link McCann DR, Lee Y-J ed.
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, Vol. 9. Cambridge, MA: Korea Institute, Harvard University; 2016.
Pak W-sŏ.
The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women. (
Fulton B, Fulton J-C). Brookline, MA: Zephyr Press; 2016.
Byington ME ed.
The History and Archaeology of the Koguryo Kingdom. Cambridge, MA: Korea Institute, Harvard University; 2016.
KI Spring 2016 Newsletter. Cambridge, Mㅁ: Korea Institute, Harvard University; 2016.
ki_spring_2016_newsletter-final.pdf McCann DR.
Same Bird. Westbrook, ME: Moon Pie Press; 2016.
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