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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 854–856.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Heonik Kwon Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy . By Tatiana Gabroussenko . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 248 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 February 2022
...I Jonathan Kief Abstract This article offers a revisionist perspective on the relationship between 1960s North and South Korean literature by showing how writers in the North engaged with and creatively rewrote works from the South. Contextualizing such practices within a longer history of cross...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., this article locates the science fiction narrative within North Korean discourses on children's literature preoccupied with the role of fiction as both a reflection of the real and a projection of the imminent, utopian future. Through a close reading of science fiction narratives from this period, this article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 267–288.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of girl-boy love with a light-hearted style]. Hankyoreh , August 4. Choi , Yearn Hong . 1994 . “ North Korean literature in the Chosun Munhak .” Global Economic Review 23 ( 1 ): 75 – 98 . Clark , Katerina . 1981 . The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual . Bloomington : Indiana...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 1014–1015.
Published: 01 November 2013
... effective literary analysis to captivate global readers' interest in North Korean literature for its artistic value, such as South Korean literary critics have produced. 12 Reading North Korea consists of three potentially attractive themes: “Love,” “War,” and “Self.” The first theme explains how...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 357–371.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK . Ithaca, NY : Cornell East Asia Series . Myers Brian R . 2010 . The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves – And Why it Matters . New York : Melville House . Portal Jane . 2000 . Korea: Art...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 859–882.
Published: 01 November 2024
... influx of refugees during the US occupation (1945–48) helped to contribute to the outbreak of peasant insurgencies in the southern provinces (Cumings 1981 ). The creation of separate North and South Korean states in 1948 accelerated the suppression of dissent on both sides and set the stage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 263.
Published: 01 February 2022
...I Jonathan Kief Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 April Revolution of 1960 inter-Korean dialogue North Korean literature revolutionary motherhood https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821001509 , published by Cambridge University Press, 11 February 2022...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1140–1146.
Published: 01 November 2016
... is surprising is the completely opposite manner in which the more recent English-language scholarship on the construction of a North Korean literary institution tends to treat Korean leftist literature of the colonial era as “failure.” Represented most notably by Brian Myers's Han Sŏrya and North Korean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (4): 579–594.
Published: 01 August 1958
... a few have been mentioned in subsequent surveys of Soviet publications on the Far East, there has been no recent attempt to describe and assess in general terms the total Soviet output on the subject of Korea since the North Korean Communist invasion brought war and world attention to the peninsula...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 731–733.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of Hyun Woo and the policemen is similar to the way socialist revolutionaries and Japanese, American, and South Korean villains are depicted in some North Korean literature. The revolutionaries of the Kwangju Uprising in both Hwang's novel and North Korean fiction are glamorized and homogenized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 71–99.
Published: 01 February 2003
... . Lucas Scott . 1996 . “ Campaigns of Truth: The Psychological Strategy Board and American Ideology, 1951–53 .” International History Review 27 : 279 – 302 . Myers Brian . 1994 . Han So˘rya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK . Ithaca : Cornell...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 635–637.
Published: 01 May 2003
... for teachers at nearly all grade levels above elementary school to teach about North and South Korea. They present voices and images of North Koreans both in North Korea and in South Korea that often remain absent from courses on East Asia. The films were not made as part of a larger research program...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (4): 716–719.
Published: 01 August 1974
... peak. In the wake of North Korea's sinking and seizure of two South Korean fishing boats on the high seas in February, 1974, South Korea publicly resumed the use of the pejorative term, putyoe (North Korean puppets). As early as August, 1973, North Korea had described the leadership of the South Korean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 637–639.
Published: 01 May 2003
... to characterize North Korea as evil. Hoass tells us that there is a boom in all things North Korean in South Korea today: images, literature, distinctive North Korean vocabulary, and food. South Koreans have always hungered for information about North Korea, but in these politically more free times people can...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 560–562.
Published: 01 May 2007
... theoretical insights from the literature on international relations to illuminate core aspects of the North Korean problem and various foreign policies that states have attempted. In exploring the evolution of U.S. policy toward North Korea over the past half century, Roehrig examines two general...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 241–243.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Frank Hoffmann BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 241 North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity. By S O N I A R.YANG. Boulder, Colo, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997. xix, 248 pp. $69-00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). As soon as I arrived in England, I was reduced to speechlessness, since my English...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 554–555.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and compact. The roots of this project are to be found in the 1988 lifting in South Korea of a ban on numerous writers (and their works) who had gone north in the postliberation period, and the effect this has had on the development of literature studies in the course of South Korean democratization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1068–1069.
Published: 01 August 2002
... just need to be more specific about what we mean by the latter term), but the book stands head and shoulders above most of the political science literature on the DPRK, not least because the authors use Korean sources extensively and have spent time in North Korea. Rather than put the DPRK into some...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1041–1043.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of the book, the author makes it explicit that he is mainly interested in understanding how the North Korean system actually works. Instead of simply portraying the system as comprising an anachronistic, personal dynasty whose days are numbered and criticizing its policies as mercurial and mysterious...
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