Asia Center Publications

Kwon PB. Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2024 pp. 448.

Jin DY. Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2022 pp. 252.

Kim HS. Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2022 pp. 270.

Kim JK, Park YC, Park H ed. Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea, 1980–2020. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2021 pp. 336.

Cho H. Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2018 pp. 264.

Kim H. Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History (1910-1945). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2018 pp. 358.

Suh S. Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2017 pp. 244.

Byington M. The Ancient State of Puyo in Northeast Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2016 pp. 414.

Eichengreen B, Lim W, Park Y, Perkins D. The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2015 pp. 378.

Park S. The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2015 pp. 348.

Deuchler M. Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2015 pp. 629.

Uchida J. Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2014 pp. 500.

Kim HI. Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2013 pp. 444.

Bayliss JP. On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2013 pp. 454.

An C-B, Bosworth B. Income Inequality in Korea: An Analysis of Trends, Causes, and Answers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2013 pp. 188.

Eichengreen B, Perkins D, Shin K. From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2013 pp. 382.

Mo J, Weingast B. Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2013 pp. 232.

Hanscom C. The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2013 pp. 248.

Ryang S. Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2012 pp. 244.

Larsen KW. Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Chosŏn Korea, 1850–1910. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center; 2011 pp. 328.