...Michael C. Rogers Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean . By Samuel E. Martin . Tokyo : Tuttle , 1954 . xi , 137. Practical Korean Grammar . By Chang Hei Lee . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1955 . xi , 225. $4.50. Copyright © The Association...

... was to professionalization of the military. Within its sphere, this work is outstanding, as fine as anything written on the subject. SIDNEY DEVERE BROWN The University of Oklahoma KOREA Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, I: From Early Times to the Sixteenth Century. Edited by PETER H. LEE. New York: Columbia University...

...Kwang Lim Koh 180 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in itself, might better have ended without cern throughout these articles is how to make them. the modern Western oriented law apply to JEROME B. COHEN Korean reality. He even suggests there be The City University of New Yor\ added such qualifiers...

...Sung Eun Kim Abstract This article analyzes the augmentation of local Korean men to the US Army and UN Command during the Korean War. Scholars have conventionally interpreted Korean augmentee soldiers as having been vital to solving dire manpower needs and “rescuing” the Republic of Korea. Offering...

...Gregory Henderson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 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...

...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...

...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...

...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 5 David...

...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...

... is enriching, enjoyable, and timely. In a global surge of Korean popular culture, this book raises questions regarding remembering and commemorating. It highlights the issues around the communication of historical knowledge between generations, and the challenges of hearing all the narratives arising from...

...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...

...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...

...H. C. Kim Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 Hankuk kongsan-ju'ŭi undong-sa, Je-i-kwon. (The History of the Korean Communist Movement, Vol. II) . Seoul, Korea : The Publication Bureau, Korea University , 1969 . 526 pp. 1,200 won. Hankuk kongsan-ju'ŭi...

...Suk-Choo Chang 884 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES production facilities. The author finds that the three Korean consumer electronics firms have engaged in FDI in Europe in the absence of a clear firm-specific monopolistic advantage, since their real FDI motivation appears to bypass anticipated...

... for the Western student. The first half of the book is an anthology of annotated translations from sources written in both Chinese and Korean from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. (A further volume of material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is promised.) Most, if not all, of the material...

...June Hee Kwon In addition, even though Korean Chinese often express their affinity to North Korea, the reader may also ask, how can North Korea fit within the discussion of Koreanness, given the relative absence of North Korea in the book's ethnographic analysis? Most of all, it is crucial...

...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...

...Stephen B. Young Traditional Korean Legal Attitudes . By Bong Duck Chun , William Shaw , and Dai-Kwon Choi . Berkeley : University of California, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies , 1980 . 101 pp. $8 (paper). Modernization and its Impact upon Korean Law...

...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...

...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...