...Ji-Eun Lee Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era . Edited by Christopher P. Hanscom , Walter K. Lew , and Youngju Ryu . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xxi, 230 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright...

... bce ), most Korean scholars have linked the polity with Old Chosŏn (n.d.-108 bce ), the earliest known state in Korean history. However, by comparing the “Hanyi” with several bronze inscriptions with similar contents, this study seeks to re-read the “Hanyi” from a perspective that transcends...

.... J. H. Gardiner . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1969 . viii, 51 pp. Appendixes, Index. Paper, $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 150 WILLIAM E. HENTHORN KOREAN HISTORY A History of Korea. BY TAKASHI HATADA. Translated by Benjamin H . Hazard...

...Richard D. McBride, II The Han Commanderies in Early Korean History . Edited by Mark E. Byington . Early Korea Project Occasional Series. Cambridge, Mass. : Korea Institute, Harvard University , 2013 . x, 360 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015...

... century. So closely were Confucianism and Korea intertwined during this latter long period, that Korean history cannot be understood without Confucianism while the study of Confucianism itself will be greatly enriched by resort to its Korean experience. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...David J. Silva The Korean Alphabet of 1446: Expositions, OPA, the Visible Speech Sounds, Annotated Translation, Future Applicability . By Sek Yen Kim-Cho . Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books ; Seoul: Asea Culture Press, 2002 . 475 pp. $70.00 (cloth). The Korean Alphabet: Its History...

...Jonathan W. Best Abstract Korea's historical roles as a cultural intermediary and military buffer between China and Japan have been frequently noted, yet as the exhibition “5,000 Years of Korean Art” makes apparent, Korea is also a nation whose distinctive social history Korea's historical roles...

...H. C. Kim Hankuk kongsan-ju'ŭi undong-sa, Je-il-kwon. (The History of the Korean Communist Movement, Vol. I) . By Jun-yop Kim and Ch'ang-sun Kim . Seoul, Korea : The Publication Bureau, Korea University , 1967 . 487 pp. 900 won. Hankuk kongsan-ju'ŭi undong-sa, Je-i-kwon...

...John B. Duncan Korea: Tradition and Transformation—A History of the Korean People . By Andrew C. Nahm . Seoul : Hollym , 1988 . 583 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES drinking hour," in a Jain temple in Calcutta...

...Wayne Patterson Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903–1945 . By David K. Yoo . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2010 . xiv, 216 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Cha Ŭi-sŏk...

...Si Nae Park Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer . By Young Kyun Oh . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . x, 300 pp. €123.00/$136.59 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In 1428, a patricide shocked Sejong's court...

...Sujung Kim The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 . By Hwansoo Ilmee Kim . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2018 . 358 pp. ISBN: 9780674987197 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 The history of Korean...

...Charles R. Kim The Korean War: A History . By Bruce Cumings . New York : Modern Library , 2010 . xix, 288 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 The Korean War: A History explores historical memories of the Korean War from...

...Yong-Ho Ch'oe James Scarth Gale and His History of the Korean People. . By Richard Rutt . Seoul : Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch in conjunction with Taewon Publishing Co ., 1972 . xi, 396 pp. Notes, Bibliographies, Index. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Kwang Lim Koh The Korean Political Tradition and Law: Essays in Korean Law and Legal History . By Pyong-Choon Hahm . Seoul, Korea : Hollym Corporation, Publishers , 1967 . vii, 249 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 180...

...Chong-Sik Lee Kungmunhak chŏnsa. [A Complete History of (Korean) National Literature] . By Yi Pyŏng-gi and Paek Ch'ŏl . Seoul : Singu Munhwasa , 1957 . (Third printing, 1959). 557 . Index. 3,300 hwan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 383...

... , Chōsŏn yuhak-sa [History of Korean Confucianism] ( Seoul : Minjung Sogwan , 1949 ) . For the classification of Korean Confucian scholars see also: Toru Takahashi , “ Chōsen ni okeru shushigaku ” [“Chu Hsi-ism in Korea”], Shibun , XIII , No. 11 (Oct. 1931 ), 1 – 18 ; and Ryū...

...James I. Matray The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History . Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2018 . x, 226 pp. ISBN: 9781538111901 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden...

... and Hwansoo Kim's The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 , can be read as a pair and are connected by themes of Buddhist mobility and transnationalism between the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, John Holt's Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures...

...Suzy Kim After the Korean War: An Intimate History . By Heonik Kwon . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . vi, 231 pp. ISBN: 9781108768313 (e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 An apt reproduction of The Kim Family after the Korean...