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Korean Histories

Korean Histories

Korean Histories

Jul17

Issue 2.2 online

The third issue ( 2.2) of Korean Histories is now available with articles on American visitors to colonial period Seoul, nationalism and literature, shaman songs and the nation and the introduction of potatoes in Korea. This issue also contains a research note on Philip von Siebold's description of Korean sailors washed ashore in Deshima in the early 19th century, accompanied by a translation of the original text and digitized version of the original drawings. As always, we welcome your feedback. ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Articles:

Two Americans in Seoul: Evaluating an Oriental Empire, 1905-1910 - Andre Schmid

The Dilemmas of Nationalism during Civil War: In Kim Song’s Living Forever - Jerôme de Wit

Divine Territory: Shaman Songs, Elite Culture and the Nation - Boudewijn Walraven

 Tubers in a Grain Culture: The Introduction of Sweet and White Potatoes to Chosŏn Korea and Its Cultural Implications - Felix Siegmund
 
Research notes:

Korean Studies in Early Nineteenth-Century Leiden - Boudewijn Walraven

Notes on Koorai, from Contact with Some Koraaians Stranded on the Japanese Coast - Philip Franz von Siebold (original text), Frits Vos (translation), Boudewijn Walraven (revision)

The entire issue can be downloaded here.

 
Jul20

Second issue on-line

The second issue ( 2.1) of Korean Histories is now available with articles on modern Korean historiography, the politics of remembrance in South Korea, a critical essay on historical Buddhist Studies in Korea, a reflection on copyrights, identity and Korean historical dramas in China and an article on Koryŏ historiography. This issue also contains a digitized version of a 1695 Japanese edition of the Chingbirok or Book of Corrections. As always, we welcome your feedback. ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )




Articles:
The idea of stagnation in Korean historiography:
From Fukuda Tokuzō to the New Right

Owen Miller




When history is made:
History, memory and the politics of remembrance in contemporary Korea

Koen De Ceuster

Keep your enemies closer:
Protecting Korea’s pop culture in China
Roald Maliangkay

A search for new approaches to research on Korean Buddhist history

Jongmyung Kim


Writing history in Koryŏ:
Some early Koryŏ works reconsidered

Remco E. Breuker

Digital sources:





Kaibara Ekiken’s preface to Chingbirok:
A Japanese edition of the Book of Corrections
W.J. Boot

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