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Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth
South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of...
ISBN: 9780295752273
more detailsCarving Status at Kŭmgangsan
Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea
Honorable Mention for the 2024 James B. Palais Prize for English-Language Scholarly books published on Korea from the Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the 2022 Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize sponsored by the American Historical Association
An...
ISBN: 9780295749259
more detailsThe Power of the Brush
Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea
Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book Prize
Honorable Mention, 2022 James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Honorable Mention, 28th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (MLA)
Shortlisted...
ISBN: 9780295747811
more detailsKorean Skilled Workers
Toward a Labor Aristocracy
South Korea’s triumphant development has catapulted the country’s economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebŏls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Korea’s...
ISBN: 9780295747217
more detailsThe Shaman's Wages
Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island
Breaking from previous scholarship on Korean shamanism, which focuses on mansin of mainland Korea, The Shaman’s Wages offers the first in-depth study of simbang, hereditary shamans on Cheju Island off the peninsula’s southwest coast. In...
ISBN: 9780295745954
more detailsInternational Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945
In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of exploitation or development that took place domestically, while international aspects have been relatively neglected. Colonial discourse, such as...
ISBN: 9780295746692
more detailsTop-Down Democracy in South Korea
While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In...
ISBN: 9780295745473
more detailsFlowering Plums and Curio Cabinets
The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art
The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosŏn period (1700–1910) ushered in a world of materialism and commodification of painting...
ISBN: 9780295743417
more detailsReassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979
Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence
The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one....
ISBN: 9780295991405
more detailsColonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910-1945
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space...
ISBN: 9780295992167
more detailsOver the Mountains Are Mountains
Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization
Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.
Still one of the only...
ISBN: 9780295992761
more detailsSpaces of Possibility
In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan
Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some...
ISBN: 9780295998428
more detailsPeace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States
The bonds forged in Peace Corps service shaped the field of Korean studies
From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A...
ISBN: 9780295748139
more detailsBeyond Death
The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea,...
ISBN: 9780295745640
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