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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1264–1265.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Katharine H. S. Moon Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America . By Ji-Yeon Yuh . New York : New York University Press , 2002 . 283 pp. $25.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1264 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES army...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 129–157.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., whereas others have been marginalized or silenced. Professor Moon examines kijich'on (camptown) prostitution around U.S. military bases in Korea as a case study of how power conflicts within the coalition movement, which are focused on nationalism and gender, have exploited and shut out the very people...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 770–771.
Published: 01 August 2015
... alliances between Korea and the United States and industrialization) that drove the development of American military camptowns in South Korea in the aftermath of the Korean War. By investigating various representations of conflicts between Koreans and Americans in camptowns, she traces how U.S.-Korea...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1265–1267.
Published: 01 November 2003
... as the extent of the leaps and bounds of cultural and psychological distance that Korean (vs. Japanese or Filipina) military brides have had to travel when compared with their white counterparts from Europe in the post World War II period. Moreover, younger women who have met GIs in camptowns or elsewhere...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 280–282.
Published: 01 February 2010
... in Korea, her mother “would stare silently at some spot on the wall until the intensity of her gaze compelled me to be quiet, too” (p. 2). Haunting the Korean Diaspora traces the genealogy of the kijich'on (camptown) woman from the afflictions of war and her transformation from the disparaged...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of the U.S. military, but others are unintended byproducts of long-term interactions. To pay attention to the wide range of cultural consequences is to show that the military has affected the lives of an immense number of people beyond residents of camptowns living daily in proximity with U.S. military bases...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1262–1264.
Published: 01 November 2003
...-stricken desperadoes who con innocent American men into marriage" (p. 57). Mrs. Weinberg (formerly Ms. Bai), who had never worked in the sex industry around the various U.S. military installations in South Korea, is just one of the many military brides who have had to live with the "shadow of the camptown...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1355–1367.
Published: 01 November 2003
... Diplomatic and Strategic History [GREGG BRAZINSKY] VAN ZILE, Perspectives on Korean Dance [CHRISTINE J. LOKEN-KIM] YONHAP NEWS AGENCY (ed North Korea Handbook [KATHRYN W E A T H E R S B Y ] Y U H , Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America [KATHARINE H. S. MOON] 1258 299 301 980 981...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 February 2016
... the concretized power asymmetries of Koza City, now called Okinawa City. During the occupation, Koza City became similar to Korea's “camptowns,” where military prostitution flourished amid radical economic disparities between American military members and local civilians (K. Moon 1997 ; S. Moon 2010...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 891–910.
Published: 01 November 2020
... together]. Seoul : Pŏmu . Yoo , David , and Arnold Pan , eds. 2013 . “Freeing Chol Soo Lee.” Special issue , Amerasia Journal 39 ( 3 ). Yuh , Ji-Yeon . 2002 . Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America . New York : New York University Press . Yuh...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 341–363.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to build a “female bloodwall” as a buffer zone. Meanwhile, the Korean government ghettoized small villages of camptowns to prevent American servicemen from entering Korean society, while financially benefiting from the sex trade (see Kramm 2017 , 29–56; Lee 2007 ). 10 The contemporary...
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