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Nicholas Harkness Awarded Honorable Mention for the Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology

November 17, 2022


Glossolalia and the Problem of Language


Nicholas Harkness
Published by the University of Chicago Press

Glossolalia and the Problem of Language, by Professor Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, was awarded...

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Professor Si Nae Park's new book

Congratulations to Professor Si Nae Park on her new book!

September 8, 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.

The vernacular story (yadam...

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Professor Yoon Sun Yang and Professor Hwansoo Kim Honored with 2020 AAS Book Awards (James B. Palais Book Prize)

February 18, 2020

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.

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Paul Chang named Joy Foundation Fellow (2019-2020), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

May 10, 2019
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.

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