...Donald N. Clark Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, I: From Early Times to the Sixteenth Century . Edited by Peter H. Lee New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . xxv, 722 pp. $49.50(cloth). Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, II: From the Seventeenth Century to the Modern...

... recommended to all students of Japan and its culture. Cornell University ROBERT J. SMITH Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean. By SAMUEL E. MARTIN. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1954. xi, 137. Practical Korean G r a m m a r . By CHANG H E I LEE. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. xi, 225. $4.50...

...Hyunseon Lee The Korean War and Postmemory Generation: Contemporary Korean Arts and Films . By Dong-Yeon Koh . London : Routledge , 2021 . 244 pp. ISBN: 9780367439743 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The Korean...

...Serk-Bae Suh Abstract This essay focuses on Ch'oe Chaesŏ, a leading Korean intellectual, active translator of English literary criticism, and editor in chief of Kokumin Bungaku (National Literature), a prominent Japanese-language journal published in colonial Korea. Ch'oe asserted...

...Elizabeth Underwood The Making of Korean Christianity: Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions, 1876–1915 . By Sung-Deuk Oak . Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press , 2013 . 437 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 The decidedly...

...Gregory Henderson Embassy at War: An Account of the Early Weeks of the Korean War and U.S. Relations with South Korean President Syngman Rhee . By Harold Joyce Noble , edited With an Introduction By Frank Baldwin . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1975 . xxiv, 328 pp. Map...

...Charles K. Armstrong Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag . By Kang Cholhwan and Pierre Rigoulot . Translated by Yair Reiner . New York : Basic Books , 2001 . xvi , 238 pp. $24 (cloth). The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy...

...David J. Silva The Korean Alphabet of 1446: Expositions, OPA, the Visible Speech Sounds, Annotated Translation, Future Applicability . By Sek Yen Kim-Cho . Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books ; Seoul: Asea Culture Press, 2002 . 475 pp. $70.00 (cloth). The Korean Alphabet: Its History...

...Stephen Epstein Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel . By Chae Man-Sik . Translated by Chun Kyung-ja . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1993 . xx, 250 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction . Translated and edited by Marshall R...

...John Kie-chiang Oh The Odyssey of Korean Democracy: Korean Politics, 1987–1990 . By Manwoo Lee . New York : Praeger , 1990 . 167 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 951 cursory overview of events such as the Nixon doctrine...

...Karl Moskowitz Public Finances During the Korean Modernization Process . Edited by Roy Bahl , Chuk Kyo Kim , and Chong Kee Park . Harvard East Asian Monographs 107; Studies in the Modernization of the Republic of Korea: 1945–75. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, Council on East...

...Karl Moskowitz Abstract This article critiques the HIID-KDI eight-volume Studies in the Modernization of the Republic of Korea from the perspective of Korean studies. The Studies' critical contributions to the field are the comprehensiveness of treatment, wealth of data, and disciplinary...

... all or most Japanese tankers and other merchant ships be escorted by patrol boats or, perhaps, destroyers? What if attack or threat of attack should come from a source other than a Soviet submarine or aircraft, or from an unidentified source? Why would the Koreans, particularly the North Koreans...

... approach to national growth as an alternative to military aggrandizement will find Yasutomo's conclusion reassuring. TSUNEO AKAHA Bowling Green State University KOREA After One Hundred Years: Continuity and Change in Korean-American Relations. Edited by SUNG-JOO H A N . ARC Foreign Policy Studies 3- Seoul...

...Donald N. Clark In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876–1888 . By Wayne Patterson . Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California , 2012 . xiii, 193 pp. ISBN 9781557291004 (paper...

...Donald N. Clark The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North America . Edited by Hyung-chan Kim . Santa Barbara : ABC-Clio, Inc. , 1977 . xii, 268 pp. Index. $24.75 (cloth); $6.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Kwang Lim Koh The Korean Political Tradition and Law: Essays in Korean Law and Legal History . By Pyong-Choon Hahm . Seoul, Korea : Hollym Corporation, Publishers , 1967 . vii, 249 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 180...

...H. C. Kim Hankuk kongsan-ju'ŭi undong-sa, Je-il-kwon. (The History of the Korean Communist Movement, Vol. I) . By Jun-yop Kim and Ch'ang-sun Kim . Seoul, Korea : The Publication Bureau, Korea University , 1967 . 487 pp. 900 won. Hankuk kongsan-ju'ŭi undong-sa, Je-i-kwon...

...D. L. Keene New Life Korean-English Dictionary . (American Edition). Edited by Hyungki J. Lew . Washington : Educational Services , 1952 . 866 . New Life English-Korean Dictionary . (American Edition). Edited by Hyungki J. Lew . Washington : Educational Services , 1952 . 1301...

...June Hee Kwon On an everyday basis, Koreanness continues to be redefined through various mechanisms, such as “looking Korean,” “acting Korean,” or “being Korean,” as Lee discusses in chapter 2. Even though Korean Americans look Korean, their deficiency in cultural understanding and lack...