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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
... the period considered ( figure 2 ). This first overview of the corpus confirms some of the intuitions outlined earlier. The 20 percent share of Leader literature highlights the importance of looking at North Korean literature beyond the cult of personality in order to account for the remaining 80 percent...
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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
.... Finally, sophisticated readings of North Korean artistic and cultural production – including literature and the visual and performing arts – could be done without necessarily conducting research within the DPRK, although of course such “fieldwork” would be helpful. Suk-young Kim's book is a pioneering...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (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
... them has in fact reached a new 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...
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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
... usually coincides with the language shift between Japanese and the Chongryun version of Korean, a shift that has become an integral part of Chongryun Koreans' identity. Chongryun Korean, which needs to be explained, is formal North Korean standard language minus the vocabularies of literature...
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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 (1998) 57 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 February 1998
... between the U.N. forces led by the U.S. military and the special X Corps on one side and North Koreans and Chinese on the other. He also candidly exposes the American military's patronizing attitude toward the people of the land where they were fighting. He compares American army bases there to colonies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1068–1069.
Published: 01 August 2002
... that North Korea "combined communism with Confucianism" [p. 4] we 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...
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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...