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Journal of Korean Studies Fall 2017 issue, Volume 22, No.2. Published

The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of Korean Studies Fall 2017 issue, Volume 22, No.2.

Guest edited by Steven Chung (Princeton University) and Hyun Seon Park (Yonsei University), the fall 2017 thematic issue, “The Cold War in Korean Cinemas,” offers seven articles that complement each other in the ways they each redefine not only Korean cinema but the Cold War itself. This issue provides both a deep engagement with the archive and a set of major theoretical interventions.

The articles will be available online shortly through read.dukeupress.edu and Project MUSE, including for individuals not affiliated with a subscribing institution. The abstracts for the current issue are available at jks.weai.columbia.edu.

The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) publishes articles in all disciplines and across all time periods, both historical and contemporary. The JKS is committed to articles that engage with a Korea-related topic in a substantial way, take existing scholarship (in Korean and/or other languages) into account, and explore new methodologies and theoretical frameworks that speak to readerships beyond Korean studies. We encourage transnational, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship.

JKS is currently accepting submissions for the special fall 2019 issue (Volume 24, No. 2) entitled “Archives, Archival Practice, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea.” This issue is guest edited by Jungwon Kim (Columbia University). JKS also welcomes submissions year round for publication in the spring issue. For more information please visit jks.weai.columbia.edu and https://www.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/


The Journal of Korean Studies, Fall 2017, Volume 22, No.2

  • Editor’s Note
  • Introduction
  • Articles
    • Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Asia Foundation and 1950s Korean Cinema
      Christina Klein
    • Auteurism as a Cold War Governmentality: Alternative Knowledge and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity
      Han Sang Kim
    • Destination Hong Kong: The Geopolitics of South Korean Espionage Films in the 1960s
      Sang Joon Lee
    • Doubled Over 007: “Aryu Pondŭ” and Genre-Mixing Comedy in Korea
      Evelyn Shih
    • Cold War Mnemonics: History, Melancholy, and Landscape in South Korean Films of the 1960s
      Hyun Seon Park
    • Departure and Repatriation as Cold War Dissensus: Domestic Ethnography in Korean Documentary
      Jinhee Park

    Book Reviews

    • The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy by Stein Ringen, Huck-ju Kwon, Ilcheong Yi, Taekyoon Kim, and Jooha Lee and State-centric to Contested Social Governance in South Korea: Shifting Power by Hyuk-Rae Kim
      Reviewed by Jesook Song
    • The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea by Hyun Ok Park
      Reviewed by Cheehyung Harrison Kim
    • Korea’s Grievous War by Su-kyong Hwang
      Reviewed by Nan Kim
    • Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema by Youngmin Choe
      Reviewed by Haerin Shin

     

    Jooyeon Kim
    Managing Editor

    The Journal of Korean Studies

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute

    Columbia University

    420 West 118th Street, Office 907
    New York, New York 10027

    http://jks.weai.columbia.edu/

Eugenia Lean is Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

We are pleased to announce that Eugenia Lean, the Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (on leave AY 2017-18) and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

The NEH grant, announced in December 2017, will support the next six months of Professor Lean’s work on the book project “A Chinese Man-of-Letters in an Age of Industrial Capitalism: Chen Diexian (1879-1940),” which examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of industrialization by focusing on the practices and writings of polymath Chen Diexian, a professional writer/editor, science enthusiast, and pharmaceutical industrialist. Professor Lean is currently developing the project as a 2017-18 member of the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies.

 by Ross Yelsey

Two Thought Provoking Talks by Alisa Freedman

Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, Japanese Literature & Film, University of Oregon) visited Columbia on the 16th and 17th of November for two talks organized by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. She was voted by the graduate students of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures for her exciting and diverse areas of research. The first talk dealt with the topic of Japanese women who studied in the United States between 1949 and 1966, which was an enlightening account of U.S.-Japan interaction that brought to attention an overlooked postwar history of Japanese female intellectuals, some of whom pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. The personal life stories of these women enable a reading of U.S.-Japan relations during the postwar/Cold War period as well as the role that female intellectuals played within the interplay of foreign policy, all the while living out their individual goals and aspirations. The second talk was a fascinating insight into fights (literary rather than physical) among prominent figures in the Japanese literary circles that caused a promising young writer to leave the literary field. The textual interactions which she calls “snarks” provide new ways of narrating the history of modern Japanese literature and arriving at a new understanding of that history through a study of affective relationships among writers. Over dinner and lunch following the talks, faculty members and graduate students got a chance to discuss the details of Professor Freedman’s research and enjoy her delightful company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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