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Index of Reviews by Book Author
- Abelmann, Nancy, Echoes of
the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement
(1996), reviewed by Changzoo Song (1998)
- Alford, C. Fred, Think No Evil:
Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (1999), reviewed by Michael Goodwin (2000)
- Buswell, Robert E. (ed.), Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions (2006) reviewed by Dane Alston (2007)
- Byong-Man Ahn,
Elites and Political Power in South Korea,
(2003) reviewed by Carl J. Saxer (2004)
- Cha, Victor D., Alignment Despite
Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (1999),
reviewed by George Oakley Totten III (2000)
- Chang Yun-Shik and Steven
Hugh Lee (eds.), Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea, (2006).
reviewed by Will Pore (2006)
- Cherry, Judith, Korean Multinationals
in Europe, (2001), reviewed by Ruediger Frank (2001)
- Cho Young-Mee and Hyo Sang Lee,
Carol Schulz, Ho-min Sohn and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean: Beginning
One and Two (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung
Kim (2001)
- Choe-Wall, Yang Hi, Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn, (2003) reviewed by Kevin O'Rourke (2007)
- Choi, Sheena, Gender, Ethnicity,
Market Forces, and College Choices: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea
(2001), reviewed by Hyaeweol Choi
- Ch'ôn Sang Pyông,
Back to Heaven: Selected Poems of Ch'ôn Sang Pyông
(1995-96), reviewed by Sunny Jung (1998)
- Chong Hyon-jong, Day-Shine
(1998), reviewed by Gregory Evon (2000)
- Choo, Miho and William O'Grady,
Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource for Word Recognition and
Comprehension (1996), reviewed by Nevitt Reagan (1999)
- Chung, David, Syncretism: The
Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea (2002), reviewed by Young-chan Ro
- Chung Myung Chang, The Bank
of Korea: A History of Fifty Years (2000), reviewed by Bernhard Seliger
- Clark, Donald N., Living
Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900-1950, (2003)
reviewed by Don Baker (2004)
- Clifford, Mark L., Troubled
Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea
(1998), reviewed by Timothy C. Lim (1998)
- Coe, David T. and Kim Se-Jik (eds),
Korean Crisis and Recovery,
(2002) reviewed by Bernard Seliger (2004)
- Creekmore Jr,
Marion, A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter,
the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions,
(2006) reviewed by Mark E. Caprio (2007)
- Dent, Christopher M, The
Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, (2002)
reviewed by Ruediger Frank (2004)
- Diamond, Larry and Byoung-Kook
Kim (eds.), Consolidating Democracy in South Korea,
(2000), reviewed by Mike Goodwin (2001)
- Duncan, John B., The Origins
of the Chosôn Dynasty (2000), reviewed by J. Michael Allen (2002)
- Edwards, Paul M. , The
Korean War: A Historical Dictionary, (2003) reviewed by James
E. Hoare (2004)
- Finch, Michael, Min Yông-hwan:
A Political Biography, (2002) reviewed by Anders Karlsson (2004)
- Foley, James,
Korea’s Divided Families: Fifty Years of Separation,
(2003), reviewed by Heike Hermanns (2006)
- Gelézeau , Valérie,
Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses, (2003),
reviewed by James E. Hoare (2004)
- Han, Gil Soo, Health and Medicine
under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia (1999), reviewed by Donald Baker (2001)
- Hart-Landsberg, Martin, Korea:
Division, Reunification, U.S. Foreign Policy
(1998), reviewed by Alon Levkowitz (1999)
- Hart, Dennis, From Tradition
to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea,
(2001), reviewed by Robert Hassink (2002)
- Hesselink,
Nathan (ed.), Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the
Twentieth Century and Beyond, (2001) reviewed by Roald H.
Maliangkay (2006)
- Hoass, Solrun, Rushing to Sunshine
(Seoul Diaries) [video] (2001), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini (2001)
- Hoare, James E. and Susan Pares, North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretative Guide, (2005) reviewed by Bernhard Seliger (2007)
- Hwang Suk-Young et al. translated by Chun Kyung-Ja(2002), The Voice of the Governor General and Other Stories of Modern Korea, reviewed by Theodore Hughes (2007)
- Hyegyônggung Hong Ssi, The
Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess
of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi (1998)
- Hyun, Theresa, Writing Women in
Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period, (2003),
reviewed by Janet Poole (2004)
- Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, Narratives of Nation
Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, (2003) reviewed
by Seungsook Moon (2004)
- James, David E. and Kyung Hyun Kim (eds.), Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, (2002) reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay (2006)
- Jeffries, Ian North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments, (2006) reviewed by Bernhard Seliger(2007)
- Kang, Hildi, Under the Black
Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, (2001) reviewed by Mark Caprio
- Kendall, Laurel, Getting Married
in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity, (1996), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini (1998)
- Kendall, Laurel (ed.), Under Construction:
The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea,
(2002), reviewed by Heike Hermanns (2002)
- Kihl, Young Whan, Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture, (2005) reviewed by Jinha Kim (2007)
- Kim, Choong Soon, A Korean
Nationalist Entrepreneur: A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891-1955
(1998), reviewed by Wayne Patterson (1999)
- Kim Ch'un-Su, The Snow Falling
on Chagall's Village: Selected Poems by Kim Ch'un-Su,
(1998), reviewed by Theodore Hughes (1999)
- Kim Eun Mee, Big Business,
Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990,
(1997), reviewed by Ruediger Frank (1999)
- Kim Hunggyu, Understanding
Korean Literature, (1997), reviewed
by Carolyn So (1998)
- Kim Kichung, An Introduction
to Classical Korean Literature, (1996), reviewed by Peter Schroepfer (2001)
- Kim Nam-Kil, Modern Korean:
An Intermediate Reader, (2000), reviewed
by Jaehoon Yeon (2001)
- Kim, Richard E., Lost Names:
Scenes froma Korean Boyhood, (1998) reviewed by J. Michael Allen (2001)
- Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim and
Lee Si-Young, Variations: Three Korean Poets, (2001), reviewed by Sehjae Chun
- Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil, A Forgotten
People: The Sakhalin Koreans, [video] (1995), reviewed by Stephen Epstein (1999)
- Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil, Silence
Broken: Korean Comfort Women, (1999), reviewed by Keith Howard (2000)
- Kim-Renaud, Young-Key (ed.), The
Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure, (1997), reviewed by Joe J. Ree (1999)
- Kim-Renaud, Young-Key (ed.)Creative Women of Korea. The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries, (2004) reviewed by Sem Vermeersch (2007)
- Kister, Daniel A., Korean Shamanist
Ritual: Symbols and Dramas of Transformation, (1997), reviewed by Kang-Nam Oh (1999)
- King, Ross and Jae-Hoon Yeon. Elementary Korean, (2000) reviewed by S. M. Hong-Schunka (2004)
- Kleiner, Juergen, Korea: A
Century of Change, (2001), reviewed
by Carl Saxer
- Ko Un, Beyond Self: 108
Korean Zen Poems, (1997), reviewed by
Kevin O'Rourke (1999)
- Koo, Hagen. Korean Workers: The Culture
and Politics of Class Formation, (2001) (reviewed 2004) by
Changzoo Song
- Kong Tat Yan, The Politics
of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle, (2000), reviewed
by Rüdiger Frank (2001)
- Kwan Choi, E., E. Han Kim and Yesook Merrill (eds.), North Korea in the World Economy, (2003) reviewed by Rüdiger Frank (2007)
- Lee, Ann Sung-Hi, Yi Kwang-Su And Modern Korean Literature: Mujông, (2005) reviewed by Kichung Kim (2007)
- Lee Dong-Jae, and Sookeun Cho,
Miseon Lee, Min Sun Song, and William Grady (eds.), Hanin hakkyo-ûi
han'gugô kyoyuk yongû (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim (2001)
- Lee, Hyangjin,
Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics,
(2001) reviewed by Isolde Standish (2006)
- Lee Junghee, Azaleas and Golden
Bells: Korean Art in the Collection of the Portland Art Museum and in
Portland Private Collections (1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt (1999)
- Lee, Peter
H., The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry, (2001)
reviewed by Grace Koh (2006)
- Lee Sung-Il, The Moonlit Pond:
Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser (2000)
- Lee Yoonmi, Modern Education,
Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism
in Korean Education, 1880-1910, (2000), reviewed by Hyung-chan Kim
- Lewis, James and Sesay,
Amadu (eds.), Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture,
(2002), reviewed by Doowon Suh (2004)
- Lewis, James
and Sesay, Amadu (eds.), Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics,
Culture, (2002), reviewed
by Ruediger Frank (2006)
- Lewis, Linda
S., Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju
Uprising, (2002), reviewed by J. E. Hoare (2006)
- Mason, David, Spirit of the
Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain Worship (2000),
reviewed by John Synott (2001)
- McCann, David R., Early Korean
Literature: Selections and Introductions (2000), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser (2001)
- McCann, David (ed.), Korea Briefing:
Toward Reunification (1997), reviewed by Yong Je Kim (1998)
- McCann, David R. and Strauss,
Barry S. (eds.), War And Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War
and the Peloponnesian War (2001), reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein (2002)
- Nam Yôngshin, comp., Han+
kugô sajôn (1997), reviewed by Robert Fouser (1999)
- Nelson, Laura, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism
in South Korea, (2000) reviewed by Mikyeong Bae (2004)
- Nelson, Laura C., Measured
Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
(2000), reviewed by Dennis Hart
- Oh, John Kie-chiang, Korean
Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development (1999),
reviewed by Norman Thorpe
- Oh Kongdan (ed.), Korea Briefing
1997-1999: Challenges and Change at the Turn of the Century
(2000), reviewed by Keith Howard (2000)
- Pak Wan-sô, The Naked
Tree (1995), reviewed by Stephen J.
Epstein (1998)
- Pak Wanso, My Very Last Possession
and Other Stories, (1999), reviewed by Diana Hinds (2000)
- Pai Hyung Il, Constructing
'Korean' Origins (2000), reviewed by
Roald H. Maliangkay (2001)
- Pai Hyung Il and Timothy R. Tangherlini (eds.), Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity
(1998), reviewed by Sallie Yea (2001)
- Pang Kie-Chung and Michael D. Shin (eds.), Landlords, Peasants, and Intellectuals in Modern Korea (2005) reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt (2007)
- Park, Chan
E., Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing,
(2003) reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay (2006)
- Park Je-chun, trans. Ko Chang
Soo, Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun,
(1997) reviewed by Scott Swaner (2004)
- Park Kyeyoung, The Korean American
Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City
(1997), reviewed by Roger Janelli (1999)
- Park Kyong-ni, Land
(1996), reviewed by Chun Kyung-Ja (1998)
- Patterson, Wayne, The Ilse:
First Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (2000), reviewed by Kwang Chung Kim
- Peterson, Mark A., Korean Adoption
and Inheritance (1996), reviewed by James H. Grayson (1998)
- Pong Ja Paik, Ji Young Kwak,
and Ji Hyoun Choi,
Korean Composition,
(2002), reviewed by Gerard Krzic (2004)
- Pratt, Keith and Richard Rutt,
Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (1999), reviewed by Dennis Hart (2000)
- Rhodes, Daisy Chun, Passages
to Paradise: Early Korean Immigrant Narratives from Hawai'i
(1998), reviewed by Richard S. Kim (1998)
- Rutt, Richard: see Pratt, Keith
- Ryang, Sonia (ed.), Koreans
in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (2000), reviewed by Haesook Kim
- Schulz, Carol and Sung-Ock Sohn,
Integrated Korean Workbook: Beginning One and Two
(2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim (2001)
- Scott-Stokes, Henry and Lee Jai
Eui (eds.),The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen,
(2000), reviewed by Luc Walhain
- Seth, Michael J., Education
Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea,
(2002), reviewed by Matthew Shapiro (2004)
- Seth, Michael
J., Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in
South Korea, (2002) reviewed by Ookwhan Oh (2006)
- Setton, Mark, Chông Yagyong:
Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism (1997), reviewed by John I. Goulde (1998)
- Schmid, Andre. Korea
Between Empires, 1895-1919, (2002), reviewed by
Michael Finch (2004)
- Shin Doh C., Mass Politics
and Culture in Democratizing Korea (1999), reviewed by Mike Goodwin (2001)
- Shin Gi-Wook, Peasant Protest
and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996), reviewed by Sallie Yea (1999)
- Shin Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson (eds.), Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999), reviewed by Michael Finch
- Shin Jeong-Hyun, The Trap of
History: Understanding Korean Short Stories (1998), reviewed by Stephen Epstein (2001)
- Shin Kyông-Nim, Farmers'
Dance (1999), reviewed by Gregory Evon
(2000)
- Shultz, Edward J, Generals
and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea (2000), reviewed by James Lewis (2001)
- Snyder, Scott. Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior, (1999) (reviewed by Patrick McEachern)
- Sô Chôngju, The
Early Lyrics 1941-1960: Poems by So Chong-Ju (1998), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi (2000)
- Son Key-young, South
Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine
Policy, (2006) reviewed by Alon Levkowitz (2006)
- Song Young In and Ailee Moon,
eds., Korean American Woman Living in Two Cultures (1997), reviewed by Soo-Young Chin (1998)
- Springer,
Chris, Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital,
with photos by Eckart Dege, (2003),
reviewed by Valérie
Gelézeau (2005)
- Steinberg, David I. Stone
Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea, (2002) reviewed by Bernhard
Seliger (2004)
- Steinberg, David I. (ed.),
Korean Attitudes toward the United States: Changing Dynamics,
(2005) reviewed by Adam Cathcart (2007)
- Sung-hee, Jwa. The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea: A
New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Chaebol, (2002) reviewed by Matthew Shapiro (2004)
- Sung-Hee Jwa and In Kwon Lee (eds.), Competition and Corporate Governance in Korea: Reforming and Restructuring the Chaebol, (2004) reviewed by David Hundt (2007)
- Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B. C.
Oh (eds.), Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II
(2001), reviewed by Thomas Clark Tufts
- Van Zile, Judy (ed.), The Halla
Huhm Dance Collection: An Inventory and Finding Aid
(1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt (1999)
- Van Zile, Judy,
Perspectives on Korean Dance, (2001) reviewed by Keith Howard
(2006)
- West, Philip and Ji-moon Suh (eds.), Remembering 'The Forgotten War': The Korean War Through Literature
and Art (2000), reviewed by David R.
McCann (2001)
- Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Vision
of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hô Nansôrhôn, (2003), reviewed by Younghee
Lee (2005)
- Yang Kwi-Ja, trans. Kim So-young
and Julie Pickering), A Distant and Beautiful Place, (2003),
reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
(2006)
- Yang Sung Chul, The North and
South Korean Political Systems - A Comparative Analysis
(1999), reviewed by Bernhard Seliger (2000)
- Yi Ch'ông-jun, The Prophet
and Other Stories (1999), reviewed by
Robert J. Fouser (2000)
- Young-Key Kim-Renaud (ed.)
Creative Women of Korea: the Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries,
(2004) reviewed by Keith Pratt (2006)
- Yu Jung-Yul
and James Kimbrell (trans. & eds.), Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi
Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon and Choi Young-Mi, (2002) reviewed by Sehjae
Chun (2006)
Index of Reviews by Reviewer
Allen, J. Michael
Alston, Dane
Bae, Mikyeong
Baker, Donald
Buzo, Adrian
Caprio, Mark
Cathcart, Adam
Chin, Soo-Young
Choi Hyaeweol
Chun, Kyung-Ja
Chun, Sehjae
Epstein, Stephen J.
Evon, Gregory Nicholas
Finch, Michael
Fouser, Robert
Frank, Rüdiger
- Eun Mee Kim, Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997) (reviewed 1999)
- Cherry, Judith, Korean Multinationals in Europe, (2001) (reviewed 2001)
- Tat Yan Kong, The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle, (2000) (reviewed 2002)
- Dent, Christopher M, The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, (2002) (reviewed 2004)
- Lewis, James and Sesay, Amadu (eds.), Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics, Culture, (2002) (reviewed 2006)
- E. Kwan Choi, E. Han Kim and Yesook Merrill (eds.), North Korea in the World Economy, (2003) (reviewed 2007)
Gelézeau, Valérie
Goodwin, Michael
Goulde, John I.
Grayson, James H.
Hart, Dennis
Hassink, Robert
Hermanns, Heike
Hinds, Diana
Hoare, James E.
Hong-Schunka, S. M.
Howard, Keith
Hughes, Theodore
Hundt, David
Janelli, Roger
Jung, Sunny
Karlsson, Anders
Kim, Haesook
Kim, Hyung-Chan
Kim, Kichung
Kim, Jinha
Kim, Kwang Chung
Kim, Myoyoung
Kim, Richard S.
Kim, Yong Je
Krzic, Gerard
Koh, Grace
Lee, Younghee
Levkowitz, Alon
Lim, Timothy L.
Maliangkay, Roald H.
- Pai, Hyung Il,
Constructing 'Korean' Origins, (2000) (reviewed 2001)
- Hesselink, Nathan (ed.), Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond, (2001) (reviewed 2006)
- James, David E. and Kyung Hyun Kim (eds.), Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, (2002) (reviewed 2006)
- Park, Chan E., Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing, (2003) (reviewed 2006)
McCann, David R.
McEachern, Patrick
Moon, Seungsook
Oh, Kang-Nam
Oh, Ookwhan
O'Rourke, Kevin
Patterson, Wayne
Poole, Janet
Pore, Will
Pratt, Keith
Reagan, Nevitt
Ree, Joe J.
Reinschmidt, Michael
Ro, Young-chan
Saxer, Carl
Schroepfer, Peter
Seliger, Bernhard
- Yang Sung Chul, The North and South Korean Political Systems - A Comparative Analysis (1999) (reviewed 2000)
- Chung, Myung Chang, The Bank of Korea: A History of Fifty Years (2000) (reviewed 2002)
- J. Scott Burgeson (ed.), BUG 5: Foreigners and Foreign Culture in Korea (2001) (reviewed 2002)
- Korean Crisis and Recovery, by David T. Coe and Kim Se-Jik (eds), (2002) (reviewed 2004)
- Steinberg, David I. Stone Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea, (2002) (reviewed 2004)
- Duck-Koo Chung and Barry Eichengreen, The Korean Economy Beyond the Crisis(2003); Wontack Hong, Catch-up and Crisis in Korea, (2002); and O. Yul Kwon, Sung-Hee Jwa, Kyung-Tae Lee Korea's New Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era, (2003), (reviewed 2006)
- James E. Hoare and Susan Pares, North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretative Guide, (2005) and Ian Jeffries North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments, (2006) (reviewed 2007)
So, Carolyn
Song, Changzoo
Standish, Isolde
Suh, Doowon
Swaner, Scott
Synott, John
Tangherlini, Timothy R.
Thorpe, Norman
Totten, George Oakley III
Tufts, Thomas Clark
Vermeersch, Sem
Walhain, Luc
Yea, Sallie
Yeon, Jaehoon
Yi, Hyangsoon
Index of Reviews by Date and Number
1998
- Pak Wan-sô,
The Naked Tree (1995),
reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
- Mark A. Peterson,
Korean Adoption and Inheritance (1996), reviewed by James H. Grayson
- Park Kyong-ni,
Land (1996), reviewed
by Chun Kyung-Ja
- Ch'ôn Sang
Pyông, Back to Heaven: Selected Poems of Ch'ôn
Sang Pyông (1995-96),
reviewed by Sunny Jung
- Peter Banaschak,
Worthy Ancestors and Succession to the Throne: On the
Office Ranks of the King's Ancestors in Early Silla Society (1997), reviewed by Adrian Buzo
- Laurel Kendall,
Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity (1996), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
- Nancy Abelmann,
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean
Social Movement (1996),
reviewed by Changzoo Song
- Mark L. Clifford,
Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals
in South Korea (1998),
reviewed by Timothy C. Lim
- David McCann (ed.),
Korea Briefing: Toward Reunification (1997), reviewed by Yong Je Kim
- Song, Young In
and Ailee Moon, eds., Korean American Woman Living in Two
Cultures (1997), reviewed
by Soo-Young Chin
- Setton, Mark, Chông
Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism (1997), reviewed by John I. Goulde
- Rhodes, Daisy Chun,
Passages to Paradise: Early Korean Immigrant Narratives
from Hawai'i (1998), reviewed
by Richard S. Kim
- Kim Hunggyu, Understanding
Korean Literature (1997),
reviewed by Carolyn So
- Hyegyônggung
Hong Ssi, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical
Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi
1999
- Kim Ch'un-Su, The
Snow Falling on Chagall's Village: Selected Poems by Kim
Ch'un-Su (1998), reviewed
by Theodore Hughes
- Shin Gi-Wook, Peasant
Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996), reviewed by Sallie Yea
- Ko Un, Beyond
Self: 108 Korean Zen Poems
(1997), reviewed by Kevin O'Rourke
- Hart-Landsberg,
Martin, Korea: Division, Reunification, U.S. Foreign
Policy (1998), reviewed
by Alon Levkowitz
- Gibson, Dai-Sil
Kim, A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans [video] (1995), reviewed by Stephen Epstein
- Kister, Daniel
A., Korean Shamanist Ritual: Symbols and Dramas of Transformation (1997), reviewed by Kang-Nam Oh
- Choo, Miho and
William O'Grady, Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource
for Word Recognition and Comprehension (1996), reviewed by Nevitt Reagan
- Kim-Renaud, Young-Key (ed.), The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure (1997), reviewed by Joe J. Ree
- Park, Kyeyoung,
The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business
in New York City (1997),
reviewed by Roger Janelli
- Van Zile, Judy (ed.), The Halla Huhm Dance Collection: An Inventory and
Finding Aid (1998), reviewed
by Michael Reinschmidt
- Kim, Eun Mee, Big
Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South
Korean Development, 1960-1990
(1997), reviewed by Ruediger Frank
- Kim, Choong Soon,
A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur: A Life History of
Kim Songsu, 1891-1955 (1998),
reviewed by Wayne Patterson
- Lee, Junghee, Azaleas
and Golden Bells: Korean Art in the Collection of the Portland
Art Museum and in Portland Private Collections (1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt
- Nam Yôngshin,
comp., Han+ kugô sajôn (1997), reviewed by Robert Fouser
2000
- Pratt, Keith and
Richard Rutt, Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (1999), reviewed by Dennis Hart
- Chong Hyon-jong,
Day-Shine (1998) and
Chong Hyon-jong,
Day-Shine (1998), reviewed
by Gregory Nicholas Evon
- Alford, C. Fred,
Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (1999), reviewed by Michael Goodwin
- Sô Chôngju,
The Early Lyrics 1941-1960: Poems by So Chong-Ju (1998), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi
- Pak Wanso, My
Very Last Possession and Other Stories, (1999), reviewed by Diana Hinds
- Oh, Kongdan (ed.),
Korea Briefing 1997-1999: Challenges and Change at the Turn
of the Century (2000),
reviewed by Keith Howard
- Kim-Gibson Dai
Sil , Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (1999), reviewed by Keith
Howard
- Yang Sung Chul,
The North and South Korean Political Systems - A Comparative
Analysis (1999), reviewed
by Bernhard Seliger
- Patterson, Wayne,
The Ilse: First Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (2000), reviewed by Kwang Chung Kim
- Mason, David, Spirit
of the Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain
Worship (2000), reviewed
by John Synott (= KSR 2001-08)
- Cha, Victor D.,
Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan
Security Triangle (1999),
reviewed by George Oakley Totten III
- Scott-Stokes, Henry
and Lee Jai Eui (eds.), The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press
Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen
(2000), reviewed by Luc Walhain
- Lee Sung-Il , The
Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998);
Kim Chong-un
and Bruce Fulton, A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern
Korean Fiction (1998); and Yi Ch'ông-jun, The
Prophet and Other Stories (1999),
reviewed by Robert J. Fouser
- Oh, John Kie-chiang,
Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic
Development (1999), reviewed
by Norman Thorpe
- Kim, Ah-jeong and
R.B. Graves, The Metacultural Theater of Oh T'ae-sôk:
Five Plays from the Korean Avant-Garde (1999), reviewed by Gregory
Nicholas Evon
2001
- Han, Gil Soo, Health
and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia (1999), reviewed by Donald Baker
- Kim, Richard E.,
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (1998) reviewed by J. Michael Allen
- Shin Jeong-Hyun,
The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories (1998), reviewed by Stephen Epstein
- West, Philip and
Ji-moon Suh (eds.), Remembering 'The Forgotten War': The Korean
War Through Literature and Art
(2000), reviewed by David R. McCann
- Cherry, Judith,
Korean Multinationals in Europe, (2001), reviewed by Ruediger Frank
- Kim Nam-Kil, Modern
Korean: An Intermediate Reader
(2000), reviewed by Jaehoon Yeon
- Lee Dong-Jae, and
Sookeun Cho, Miseon Lee, Min Sun Song, and William Grady (eds.),
Hanin hakkyo-ûi han'gugô kyoyuk yongû (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim
- Mason, David, Spirit
of the Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain
Worship (2000), reviewed
by John Synott
- McCann, David R.,
Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions (2000), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser
- Pai, Hyung Il,
Constructing 'Korean' Origins (2000), reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay
- Hoass, Solrun,
Rushing to Sunshine (Seoul Diaries) [video] (2001), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
- Cho Young-Mee and Hyo Sang Lee,
Carol Schulz, Ho-min Sohn and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean: Beginning
One and Two (2000), and Carol
Schulz and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean Workbook: Beginning One and
Two (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim
- Ryang, Sonia (ed.),
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (2000), reviewed by Haesook Kim
- Pai, Hyung Il and
Timothy R. Tangherlini (eds.), Nationalism and the Construction
of Korean Identity (1998),
reviewed by Sallie Yea
- Shultz, Edward
J, Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea (2000), reviewed by James Lewis
- Kim, Kichung, An
Introduction to Classical Korean Literature (1996), reviewed by Peter Schroepfer
- Shin, Doh. C, Mass
Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (1999), and Larry Diamond and Byoung-Kook Kim (eds.), Consolidating
Democracy in South Korea, (2000),
reviewed by Mike Goodwin
2002
- Chung, Myung Chang, The Bank
of Korea: A History of Fifty Years (2000), reviewed by Bernhard Seliger
- Hildi Kang, Under the Black
Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (2001) reviewed by Mark Caprio
- Sheena Choi, Gender, Ethnicity,
Market Forces, and College Choices: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea
(2001), reviewed by Hyaeweol Choi
- Laura C. Nelson, Measured Excess:
Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
(2000), reviewed by Dennis Hart
- Yoonmi Lee, Modern Education,
Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism
in Korean Education, 1880-1910, (2000), reviewed by Hyung-chan Kim
- Tat Yan Kong, The Politics
of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle (2000), reviewed by Rüdiger Frank
- John B. Duncan, The Origins
of the Chosôn Dynasty (2000), reviewed by J. Michael Allen
- Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B. C.
Oh (eds.), Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II
(2001), reviewed by Thomas Clark Tufts
- J. Scott Burgeson (ed.), BUG
5: Foreigners and Foreign Culture in Korea (2001), reviewed by Bernhard Seliger
- Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson (eds.), Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999), reviewed by Michael Finch
- David Chung, Syncretism: The
Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea (2002), reviewed by Young-chan Ro
- Juergen Kleiner, Korea: A Century
of Change (2001), reviewed by Carl Saxer
- Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim and
Lee Si-Young, Variations: Three Korean Poets (2001), reviewed by Sehjae Chun
- Kendall, Laurel (ed.), Under Construction:
The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea
(2002), reviewed by Heike Hermanns
- McCann, David R. and Strauss,
Barry S. (eds.), War And Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War
and the Peloponnesian War (2001), reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
- Hart, Dennis, From Tradition
to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea,
(2001), reviewed by Robert Hassink
2004
- Lewis, James and Sesay,
Amadu, Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture,
(2002), reviewed by Doowon Suh
- Seth, Michael J., Education
Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea,
(2002), reviewed by Matthew Shapiro
- Schmid, Andre,
Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, (2002) , reviewed
by Michael Finch
- Gelézeau , Valérie,
Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses, (2003),
reviewed by James E. Hoare
- Paik, Pong Ja , Ji Young
Kwak, and Ji Hyoun Choi,
Korean Composition, (2002),
reviewed by Gerard Krzic
- Coe, David T. and Kim Se-Jik (eds), Korean
Crisis and Recovery, (2002) reviewed by Bernard
Seliger
- Edwards,
Paul M., The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary,
(2003) reviewed by James E. Hoare
- Koo, Hagen. Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation, (2001) reviewed by Changzoo Song
- Sung-hee, Jwa. The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea: A
New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Chaebol, (2002) reviewed by Matthew Shapiro
- King, Ross and Jae-Hoon Yeon. Elementary Korean, (2000) reviewed by S. M. Hong-Schunka
- Hyun, Theresa, Writing Women in
Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period, (2003)
reviewed by Janet Poole
- Park Je-chun, trans. Ko Chang
Soo, Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun,
(1997) reviewed by Scott Swaner
- Dent, Christopher M, The
Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, (2002)
reviewed by Ruediger Frank
- Clark, Donald N., Living
Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900-1950, (2003)
reviewed by Don Baker
- Finch, Michael, Min Yông-hwan:
A Political Biography, (2002) reviewed by Anders Karlsson
- Byong-Man Ahn,
Elites and Political Power in South Korea,
(2003) reviewed by Carl J. Saxer
- Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, Narratives of Nation
Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, (2003) reviewed by Seungsook
Moon
- Nelson, Laura, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism
in South Korea, (2000) reviewed by Mikyeong Bae
- Steinberg, David I. Stone
Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea, (2002) reviewed by Bernhard
Seliger
2005
- Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Vision
of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hô Nansôrhôn, (2003), reviewed by Younghee
Lee
- Springer, Chris, Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital, with photos by Eckart Dege, (2003), reviewed by Valérie Gelézeau
2006
- Duck-Koo Chung
and Barry Eichengreen, The Korean Economy Beyond the Crisis (2003);
Wontack Hong, Catch-up and Crisis in Korea, (2002); and O. Yul Kwon,
Sung-Hee Jwa, Kyung-Tae Lee Korea's New Economic Strategy in the Globalization
Era, (2003), reviewed by Bernhard Seliger
- Yang Kwi-Ja, trans. Kim So-young
and Julie Pickering), A Distant and Beautiful Place, (2003),
reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
- Lewis, James
and Amadu Sesay (eds.), Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics,
Culture, (2002), reviewed by Ruediger Frank
- Foley, James,
Korea’s Divided Families: Fifty Years of Separation,
(2003), reviewed by Heike Hermanns
- Lewis, Linda
S., Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju
Uprising, (2002), reviewed by J. E. Hoare
- Hesselink,
Nathan (ed.), Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the
Twentieth Century and Beyond, (2001) reviewed by Roald H.
Maliangkay
- James, David E. and Kyung Hyun Kim (eds.), Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, (2002) reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay
- Seth, Michael
J., Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in
South Korea, (2002) reviewed by Ookwhan Oh
- Lee, Hyangjin,
Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics,
(2001) reviewed by Isolde Standish
- Yu Jung-Yul
and James Kimbrell (trans. & eds.), Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi
Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon and Choi Young-Mi, (2002) reviewed by Sehjae
Chun
- Van Zile, Judy,
Perspectives on Korean Dance, (2001) reviewed by Keith Howard
- Lee, Peter
H., The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry, (2001)
reviewed by Grace Koh
- Park, Chan
E., Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing,
(2003) reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay
- Son Key-young, South
Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine
Policy, (2006) reviewed by Alon Levkowitz
- Chang Yun-Shik and Steven
Hugh Lee (eds.), Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea, (2006)
reviewed by Will Pore
- Young-Key Kim-Renaud (ed.)
Creative Women of Korea: the Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries,
(2004) reviewed by Keith Pratt
2007
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- Snyder, Scott. Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior, (1999) reviewed by Patrick McEachern
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Hwang Suk-Young et al. translated by Chun Kyung-Ja(2002), The Voice of the Governor General and Other Stories of Modern Korea, reviewed by Theodore Hughes
- Ann Sung-Hi Lee, Yi Kwang-Su And Modern Korean Literature: Mujông, (2005) reviewed by Kichung Kim
- Sung-Hee Jwa and In Kwon Lee (eds.), Competition and Corporate Governance in Korea: Reforming and Restructuring the Chaebol, (2004) reviewed by David Hundt
- James E. Hoare and Susan Pares, North Korea in the 21st Century: An Interpretative Guide, (2005) and Ian Jeffries North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments, (2006) reviewed by Bernhard Seliger
- E. Kwan Choi, E. Han Kim and Yesook Merrill (eds.), North Korea in the World Economy, (2003) reviewed by Rüdiger Frank
- Young-Key Kim-Renaud (ed.), Creative Women of Korea. The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries, (2004) reviewed by Sem Vermeersch
- Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn, (2003) reviewed by Kevin O'Rourke
- Young Whan Kihl, Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture, (2005) reviewed by Jinha Kim
- Pang Kie-Chung and Michael D. Shin (eds.), Landlords, Peasants, and Intellectuals in Modern Korea (2005) reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt
- Robert E. Buswell (ed.), Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions (2006)reviewed by Dane Alston
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