...Laurel Kendall Then came the Japanese colonial administration (1910–45) with its anti-superstition campaigns, possibly more vehement on Cheju owing to the modernist colonizers’ contemptuous perception of the islanders as even more backward than their mainland counterparts. In this same period...

... an important layer to the historical understanding of the Korean community in Japan. Kim himself was second generation, born in Osaka in 1925. His parents had only recently moved to Japan from Cheju Island and he spent much of his childhood on the island. His ties to Korea, and to Cheju in particular, were...

... sections foundation myths known from ancient textual sources, shaman myths from peninsular Korea, and shaman myths from the island of Cheju-do. The book begins with a brief introduction to Korean myths in general, and the translation of each myth is preceded by a short introduction or commentary. Most...

..., they are considered "loose" and " 'bad' or not worth consideration." The virtues in conflict in this case are closely linked to the dilemmas in cheap-labor, export-led economic development. In the final article Soon-young Yoon argues that on Cheju Island the family income from female diving, the greater female...

... sections foundation myths known from ancient textual sources, shaman myths from peninsular Korea, and shaman myths from the island of Cheju-do. The book begins with a brief introduction to Korean myths in general, and the translation of each myth is preceded by a short introduction or commentary. Most...

... that on Cheju Island the family income from female diving, the greater female-to-male ratio, the historical underdevelopment of male-dominated agriculture, abundant land, and frequent village endogamy have given women greater power than their counterparts on the mainland. Consequently, Cheju Island shamanism...

..." is a sketchy survey of deities, ritual forms, and shamanic epics of Cheju Island, where he believes the purest form of shamanism has been preserved. In another chapter he attempts to demonstrate a close affinity between Korean shamanism and Japanese Shinto. Kim T'ae-gon classifies Korean shamans into two types...

..., their brief encounter with Korea is not. This, then, is the fascinating story of the shipwreck of a Dutch vessel, the Sparrow Haw\, on the coast of Cheju Island in the mid-seventeenth century and of the subsequent adventures of the surviving Dutch crew during their thirteen years captivity in Korea. Hendrik...

.... $3.75. A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (Fyohae-ro\) is the diary written by Ch'oe Pu (1454-1504), Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju, Korea. At the news of his father's death in 1487, Ch'oe set sail for home despite hazardous weather. He was caught in a storm and drifted in the sea...

... the Japanese Government-General and Army in Korea. He travelled 15,000 kilometers in the peninsula, 9,000 of which was by truck, 1,600 by foot and the rest by train and boat. Seoul was his headquarters, and he made special trips to Cheju and Ullung Islands, climbed Paektu, Kwanmo, Chiri and other mountains...

...-six survivors from the wreck of the Sperwer off Cheju Island in August 1653. It would be fteen years before any of the castaways saw Holland again. B O O K R E V I E W S K O R E A 769 Hamel s World contains the full VOC text of the secretary s journal, smoothly translated by Jean-Paul Buys...

... anthropologists provide evidence that the lives of many contemporary Korean women are just as far removed from that stereotypical image. Examining shamans and their clients, female divers of Cheju Island, and housewives in mountain households, most of whose lives are outside the usual social and economic...

... the 1960s; only in the 1980s does one begin to see signs of scholarly maturity. Both Chang Chu-gun and Kim T'ae-gon, contributors to this volume, were among the pioneers of the 1960s. Chang Chu-gun's "Introduction to Korean Shamanism" is a sketchy survey of deities, ritual forms, and shamanic epics of Cheju...

... suggest a plurality of responsibility, starting with that of the ROK government and Korean rebels, but also that of the US military. Her primary focus is the 1948 Cheju-do incident that was initiated in the final months of the US occupation of southern Korea and continued into the ROK's First Republic...

... compelling of letters. This is not to say that the letters here do not hold the reader's interest; Kwŏn Sangil's letter to his dead wife is genuinely moving, and the pain of exile brought on by factional politics at court is memorably recorded in the famous calligrapher Kim Chŏnghŭi's letters from Cheju...

... the first two phases of the war, polarization (1945–1948) beginning with the dual American-Soviet occupation of the peninsula, and insurgency (1948–1950) beginning with the Cheju Uprising. Although he validates Bruce Cumings’ thesis about the war's civil essence rooted in a postcolonial conflict among...

... in. Later chapters explore the role of “China hands” in POW policies as well as the alleged massacre of prisoners on Cheju Island in October 1952. As the final chapter highlights, the prisoners returned to the PRC were—at best—marginalized and treated as traitors. Many of those who moved to Taiwan were...

.... Chach’ŏngbi in the Korean shamanistic text “Segyŏng pon p'uri” (Unraveling the myth of the agricultural goddess), which incorporates elements of Liang and Zhu's story, also highlights woman's self-autonomy in Cheju Island. Chach’ŏngbi is a daughter of a commoner but pursues her love for Mun Toryŏng (a son...

... priest, devised a training farm named the Isidore Development Association and an argo-industrial marketing system in Cheju, South Korea. Manibhai Desai, a Ghandhian disciple, is recognized for implementing a variety of livestock and agricultural projects and for founding the Bharatiya Agro-Industries...

... of an international conference held at Cheju island in 1984. It contains nineteen impressive chapters based on original research by prominent specialists on North Korea from the Republic of Korea and the United States. Anyone interested in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will learn much from this book...