Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture promotes Korean literature among English-language readers. Each issue may include works of contemporary Korean writers and poets, as well as essays and book reviews by Korean studies professors in the United States. Azalea introduces to the world new writers as well as promising translators, providing the academic community of Korean studies with well-translated texts for college courses. Writers from around the world also share their experience of Korean literature or culture with wider audiences.... Read more about Azalea Volume 14 (2021) - Now on Project MUSE
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...
The History and Archaeology of the Koguryo Kingdom Edited by Mark E. Byington
This volume contains twelve studies on the history and archaeology of the Koguryŏ kingdom, which existed from the first century B.C. to 668, its territories...
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture: Volume Thirteen Edited by Young-Jun Lee, Professor, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture promotes Korean literature among English-language readers. Each issue may include works of contemporary Korean writers and poets, as well as essays and book reviews by Korean studies professors in the United States. Azalea introduces to the world new writers as well as promising translators, providing the academic community of Korean studies with well-translated texts for college courses. Writers from around the world also share their experience of Korean literature or culture with wider audiences.... Read more about Newly Published Azalea Series: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture Volume 13 (2020)
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.
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture: Volume Twelve Edited by Young-Jun Lee, Professor, Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture promotes Korean literature among English-language...
“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....
Nicholas Harkness’s book, Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea (University of California Press, 2014), has been awarded the Edward Sapir Book Prize by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (American Anthropological Association). The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. Nicholas Harkness is Assistant Professor...
The Bertsch papers were donated by the family through the Korea Institute and transferred to the Library as part of the Harvard-Yenching Library holdings. The Library organized the papers, which are stored in 13 boxes, and created a detailed finding aid at the same time with the Korea Institute’s student supports. The Bertsch papers will be kept as part of the Hausman Archive, but also have a separate HOLLIS record as well. All boxes of the Bertsch papers will be stored in the Harvard Depository, and the finding aid will be accessible through HOLLIS/HOLLIS Classic....
