...Sungjoo Han Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 Kim Kyu-sik ŭi saengae. (Life of Kim Kyusik) . By Chong-sik Lee . Seoul : Sing'gu munhwasa , 1974 . 240 pp. Index. 440 won. BOOK REVIEWS 1059 and errors of fact, many admittedly minor, abound. Dinuba...

... have been greatly encouraged and aided by scientific excavations. As in many other areas of the world, plant domestication has not been thoroughly studied in Korea. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 VOL. Xli, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1982 Comments ON KIM...

...Pori Park Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp . By Jin Y. Park . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . ix, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824858780 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Jin Park's book...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 doi: 10.1017/S002191181400076X . Published by Cambridge University Press, 16 September 2014. The publisher of Hwansoo Ilmee Kim's Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism is incorrectly listed as Harvard...

...Michelle Cho Kim Ki-duk . By Hye Seung Chung . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2012 . ix, 161 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Over the last decade, amidst a surge of interest in Korean cinema by critics...

...Benjamin R. Young On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War . By Van Jackson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 236 pp. ISBN: 9781108473484 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Van Jackson, a former Pentagon insider...

...Edward Goldring The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un . By Anna Fifield . New York : PublicAffairs , 2019 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9781541742482 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Upon its release in 2019...

...Hazel Smith Kim Jong-un's Strategy for Survival: A Method to Madness . By David W. Shin . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2021 . xviii, 463 pp. ISBN: 9781793608208 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The stated aim of this book is “to gain...

...Youngshik Bong Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan . By Bertil Lintner . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2005 . xv, 274 pp. B 625 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S K O R E A 1041 Great Leader, Dear...

...Patrick McEachern; Molly Boyd North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance . By Sung Chull Kim . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2006 . xv , 277 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Alexandre Y. Mansourov From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960 . By Andrei Lankov . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2002 . xvii, 202 pp. $60.00 (cloth). The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 . By Charles K. Armstrong . Ithaca : Cornell...

...Peter Moody North Korea's Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965 . By Andre Schmid . Oakland : University of California Press , 2024 . xv, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780520392847 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In 2017, during a lecture...

...Sunyoung Park Abstract Perhaps the most renowned leftist writer of late colonial Korea, Kim Namch'ŏn left a complex body of work that has so far defied an encompassing interpretation. On the one hand, in his theoretical writings, Kim consistently advocated realism as his aesthetic principle...

... the whole project. The intimate home-movie quality of the recordings reveals the poets and their poems better than the introductory textual expositions. The forceful musical rendition of Kim Hyung-Young's “Between Heaven and Earth” by Moon Hyun, Hong Suk-Bok, and Kim Sung-tae provides a powerful...

...Ko Won 614 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES KOREA The Middle Hour: Selected Poems of Kim Chi Ha. Translated by DAVID R. MCCANN. Stanfordville, N. Y.: Human Rights Publishing Group, 1980. xi, 88 pp. N.p. As this review was being written, the long-imprisoned South Korean poet Kim Chi Ha was released...

...Hong Nack Kim; Sung Chul Yang; Yong Soon Yim Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 VOL. XLIV, N O . 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1985 Obituary Sejin Kim (1933-1984) The untimely death of Sejin Kim from cancer reminds us once again of the ageold Oriental adage...

...Young Whan Kihl Kinnichisei to Manshu kōnichi sensō . [Kim Il Sung and the Manchurian Anti-Japanese War] . By Wada Haruki . Tokyo : Heibonsha , 1992 . 414 pp. ¥2,900. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 1038 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Equally important...

...David C. Kang Foreign Relations of North Korea: During Kim II Sung's Last Days . Edited by Doug Joong Kim . Seoul : Sejong Institute , 1994 . 575 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1100 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES minister is too "subservient...

...Victor D. Cha Politics and Policy in the New Korean State: From Roh Tae-woo to Kim Young-sam . Edited by James Cotton . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1995 . 246 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 474 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Charles K. Armstrong North Korea after Kim Il Sung . Edited by Dae-Sook Suh and Chae-Jin Lee . Boulder, Colo : Lynne Rienner , 1998 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 224 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES North Korea after Kim II Sung. Edited by D A E - S...