Nicholas Harkness Published by the University of Chicago Press
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian...
Professor Nicholas Harkness, Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, was awarded a 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. This year’s honorands, nominated by the society’s undergraduate members,...
Please join us in congratulating Professor Yoon Sun Yang and Professor Hwansoo Kim, who will each be honored with 2020 AAS Book Awards for their recent monographs, all published by the Asia Center Publications Program.
The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing Si Nae Park Published by Columbia University Press
As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea, eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in flux: It was a bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time.
Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, has been named Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Each year, the Radcliffe Institute hosts leading scholars, scientists, and artists from around the world in its renowned residential fellowship program. To view the full list of recipients and their projects for the academic year 2019-20, visit the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study web site here.
Professor Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, has been awarded the 2017 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for his recent publication, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism 1866-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). The fellowships, supported by a fund established in memory of Walter Channing Cabot by Cabot’s wife Elizabeth Rogers Cabot and her children in 1905, are given annually to honor distinguished faculty members who have contributed to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art. In 2017, ten...
“Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun Ch'onghwa: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea”
Translated by James Scarth Gale Edited by Ross King and Si Nae Park Annotations by Donguk Kim Published by University of Toronto Press
Description from University of Toronto Press website: Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical...
Announcing a new book: “Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945” Published by Harvard University Press (for website link, click here).
Description: For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J....
