Journal of Korean Studies, volume 12
Journal of Korean Studies, volume 12
Between 1979 and 1992, the Journal of Korean Studies became a leading academic forum for the publication of innovative in-depth research on Korea. Now under the editorial guidance of Gi-Wook Shin and John Duncan, this journal continues to be dedicated to quality articles, in all disciplines, on a broad range of topics concerning Korea, both historical and contemporary.
This edition's contents are as follows:
Special section: North Korea:
Guest Editor: Jae-Jung Suh
- Making Sense of North Korea: Institutionalizing Juche at the Nexus of Self and Other - Jae-Jung Suh
- The Making of the North Korean State - Gwang-Oon Kim
- The Suryong System as the Institution of Collectivist Development - Young Chul Chung
- The Rise and Demise of Industrial Agriculture in North Korea - Chong-Ae Yu
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Famine Relief, Social Order, and State Performance in Late Chosn Korea - Anders Karlsson
Book Reviews
- A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Together with an Annotated Translation of The Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi, by Jonathan Best. Reviewed by Gari Ledyard
- Perspectives on the Imjin War. Reviews by Kenneth M. Swope:
- The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592–1598, translated by Byonghyon Choi
- The Imjin War: Japan’s Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China, by Samuel Hawley
- Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War, 1592–1598, by Stephen Turnbull.
- Painters as Envoys: Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga, by Burglind Jungmann. Reviewed by Insoo Cho.
- Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900–1950, by Donald N. Clark. Reviewed by Kyung Moon Hwang
- Christianity in Korea, edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Timothy S. Lee. Reviewed by Chai-sik Chung
- Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea, by Seungsook Moon. Reviewed by William A. Hayes
- Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy, by Gi-Wook Shin. Reviewed by William A. Hayes
- North Korea: Between Survival and Glory. Reviews by Sung-han Kim:
- North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival, edited by Young Whan Kihl and Hong Nack Kim
- North Korea: 2005 and Beyond, edited by Philip W. Yun and Gi-Wook Shin
- Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, edited by Victor D. Cha and David Kang
- A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas, by Chae-Jin Lee