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Madeleine Zelin Re-elected to the International Society for Chinese Law and History’s Board of Directors

We are pleased to announce that Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Chinese Law and History.

The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) was established in 2014 to promote more regular exchanges of ideas and fruitful collaboration among all scholars across the world who are interested in better understanding Chinese law and society from historical and comparative perspectives. The ISCLH organizes a series of workshops, international conferences, and publication projects on a regular basis. Registered members now include almost 140 researchers from more than ten different countries in multiple continents.

 by Ross Yelsey

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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