[KS] Call for book reviews

Wed Jan 6 07:44:56 EST 2010

Dear Professor Pore, 

Thank you for raising the availability of books prior to review. I am
interested in taking a book to review so it is a relevant issue for me too.

If there is a way to provide a checklist so that potential reviewers can
see what is and is not available, that may also be handy. It will reduce
the possibility of double-ups at the request stage and remove confusion as
to what is on the list and what has been taken.

Regards,

David Calleja

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Dear Ms. han,
> 
> Will you be able to supply copies of the books on the list for the
> reviewers? There is one or two of the books on the list that I may like
to
> review. How can I know which books have been
chosen for review? Thank
you.
> 
> Will Pore

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> 3. Re: first issue of Korean Histories (Javier Cha)
> 4. Re: first issue of Korean Histories (Robert Armstrong)
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> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:38:41 -0800
> From: will pore 
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> Dear Ms. han,
> 
> Will you be able to supply copies of the books on the list for the
> reviewers? There is one or two of the books on the list that I may like
to
> review. How can I know which books have been chosen for review? Thank
you.
> 
> Will Pore
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/1/5 Jieun Han 
> 
>> Dear Korean Studies List Members,
>>
>> Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies would like to request reviews
for
>> the following books:
>>
>> 1. Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under
>> Park Chung Hee
>> By Hwasook Nam (University of Washington Press, 2009)
>>
>> 2. Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making
of
>> a
>> Democracy (The New Cold War
History)
>> By Gregg Brazinsky (paperback 2009)
>>
>> 3. Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosun,
>> 1392- 1910
>> By JaHyun Kim Haboush (2009)
>>
>> 4. The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and
>> Health,
>> 1910-1945 (Asia Pacific Modern)
>> By Theodore Jun Yoo (2008)
>>
>> 5. The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation
in
>> South Korea
>> By Namhee Lee (2007)
>>
>> 6. History of Korean Buddhism
>> By Byungjo Chung ( 2007)
>>
>> 7. The Dynamics of Confucianism and Modernization in Korean
>> History (Cornell East Asian Series)
>> By Yi Taejin (paperback 2008)
>>
>> 8. The Korean War: The Essential Bibliography (Essential
Bibliographies)
>> By Allan R. Millett (paperback 2007)
>>
>> Please be informed that the deadline is March 2nd 2010.
>> If there is a book you would like to review which is not on this list
>> please feel free to inform us.
>>
>> You can submit your book review through our website at
>>
http://sjeas.skku.edu or
>> you can also email us at sjeas at skku.edu.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Jieun Han
>> Manuscript Editor
>> Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> -- 
> William F. Pore, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Global Studies Program
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> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:21:02 +0900
> From: "The Academy of Korean Studies" 
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> Subject: [KS] The 18th AKS Summer Program for International Students
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> -The 18th AKS Summer Program for International Students-
> 
> The Academy of Korean Studies is pleased to announce its 2010 AKS Summer
> Institute for International Students. As an important part of
the
mission
> of AKS is to cultivate young leaders who can contribute to the
development
> of Korean studies, the Academy has organized this intensive summer
program
> for those in Korean Studies. The summer program is composed of various
> components such as special lectures on Korea, intensive readings and
> discussions in Korean, field trips, excursions, and traditional cultural
> activities. 
> 
> - Program Period
> July 12(Mon) - August 6(Fri), 2010 (4 weeks)
> 
> - Language of the Program
> The program will be conducted in Korean(some lectures in English).
> Participants ar supposed to possess Korean Language proficiency to
> understand lectures in Korean.
> 
> - Qualifications and Application Requirements 
> 1. Undergraduate students of second year or above in Korean studies
> and/or Undergraduate student of second year above passed Korea related
> lectures
> a) Application Form: You can download the form from our website at
> http://www.aks.ac.kr/EngHome.
> b) All official
university transcripts: Photocopies are not acceptable.
> Records of all courses must be in Korean or English. 
> c) (Optional) A copy of the score report for Korean language proficiency

> d) The evaluation sheet included in the application form. 
> e) Letter of Recommendation (1)
> ? Letters of recommendation should be submitted in a sealed and signed
> envelope with application.
> * Applicants should initially send these documents by E-mail and
> subsequently send the original documents by mail no later than March 31.
> 
> - Period of submission 
> March 1(Mon) - March 31(Wed), 2010
> Applications received after the deadline will be not considered.
> 
> - Notification of the Acceptance 
> Applicants will be notified of their acceptance after the center has
> completed the review of applications. Acceptance letters will be sent to
> those accepted by April 30(Fri) by e-mail and announced at
> www.aks.ac.kr/eng_home/main/main.asp.
> 
> - Financial Support
> The Academy of Korean
Studies will cover the cost of registration,
classes,
> accommodations, and meals during the program as well as expenses
incurred
> during field trips and excursions. All participants are responsible for
> their travel expenses to and from Korea.
> 
> - Arrival and Departure
> Participants should arrange their travel to arrive and depart Korea
within
> a period of 2 days before and after the program. All participants are
> expected to arrange their transportation between the AKS and the
airport.
> 
> - Access to AKS facilities
> Participants will have access to the facilities of the Academy,
including
> the library, photocopy room and so on.
> 
> - Contact 
> Ms. Nansook Jung
> Division of International Support for Korean Studies
> The Center for International Affairs
> The Academy of Korean Studies
> 110 Haogogae-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 463-791, Republic
of
> Korea
> E-mail yojh at aks.ac.kr
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 5
Jan 2010 21:27:06 -0800
> From: Javier Cha 
> To: Korean Studies Discussion List 
> Subject: Re: [KS] first issue of Korean Histories
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> I, too, love the new journal. Please keep more great articles coming!
> 
> Re: Dr. Maliangkay
> We don't need to limit our imagination to page numbers, which is,
> after all, a product of the codex-based print media. One viable
> alternative might be the paragraph system:
> http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/1/000007.html might serve as a
> model.
> 
> As for the possibility of online HTML publication, font type, size and
> style are extremely easy to adjust using CSS. The journal editors can
> offer a variety of styles to the readers, and the style and formatting
> of the article can be transformed on the fly. Or the reader can load a
> custom stylesheet of his or her choice. Most web browsers today offer
> this feature.
> 
> HTML and CSS are pure text, and hence are extremely compact
in size.
> There would be minimal difference in file size between an
> efficiently-coded HTML and PDF.
> 
> I personally would like to make two feature requests to the editors:
> 1) open-format ebook version of individual articles (i.e., in ePub);
> and 2) publish the journal under a Creative Commons license. Currently
> in East Asian studies, the only journal that does so is Sino-Platonic
> Papers edited by Victor Mair. Korean Histories can position itself as
> a trendsetter!
> 
> Javier
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Roald Maliangkay
> wrote:
>> Dear Frank and others,
>> I think the new journal looks fantastic, and I think that having some
>> forum
>> there is a really good idea, but there are huge issues with real
>> Wordpress-like on-line journals, one of which is the referencing (no
page
>> numbers = mucho dolor), the fonts (limited..., and no, let's not start
>> the
>> romanisation debate here) and the lay-out. Another problem is the
>> potential
>> modem-burning
size of some of the articles. For those articles that do
>> use
>> film snippets, for example, the true on-line delivery format would be
>> perfect, but for those of us who do not have South Korea-like Internet,
>> it
>> would still be great to have basic-quality PDFs for download (avoiding
>> freezing up systems). I am sure the editors will still be developing
the
>> different formats of delivery, but for me personally, having easily
>> reference-able (bad English, I know), nicely laid-out PDFs is great.
>> Just my two cents worth...
>> Roald
>>
>>
>> On 6 Jan 2010, at 12:39, Frank Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>> The editors welcome submissions and feed-back
>>
>> Congratulations! Just one short note: It would be so much nicer if
>> "on-line"
>> would really mean that the journal is online -- in the sense that we
can
>> in
>> addition to downloading (not so important) actually read articles in a
>> web
>> browser. They could easily be put onto the Web using WordPress or a
>> similar
>>
program. PDF files are not exactly a product of the spirit of the
>> Internet
>> (and our times as such), rather a technical hangover, a digital remake
>> and
>> exact imitation of paper publishing, doing nothing but providing paper
>> publications in digital format, so that they can be distributed for
>> printing. This process inevitably imitates all the hierarchies,
>> conventions,
>> and limitations that come with paper publishing. Furthermore, there is
no
>> FORUM at the journal's website, and therefore no way to respond to the
>> published articles, no way to get into a creative dialogue. What then
is
>> the
>> difference to a paper journal? Your published announcement at least
>> points
>> into another direction. This conventional frame of publishing then
seems
>> to
>> -- quite completely -- undermine the journal's approach. I would
>> therefore
>> suggest to change the format of publication and to open your site up
for
>> a
>> public discussion.
>> Best wishes,
>>
Frank
>>
>>
>> --
>> --------------------------------------
>> Frank Hoffmann
>> http://koreaweb.ws
>>
>>
>> ______________________________
>> Dr. Roald H. Maliangkay
>> Senior Lecturer
>> School of Culture, History and Language
>> College of Asia charset="utf-8"
> 
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> 
> 
> The journal looks great and I look forward to reading the next one. I
> especially enjoyed "Cheju 1910."
> 
> Robert Neff
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:13:59 +0100
> From: B.C.A.Walraven at hum.leidenuniv.nl
> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: Re: [KS] first issue of Korean Histories
> 
> 
> 
> Issuing the first volume of Korean Histories
> Within the framework of the Leiden University research project "History
as
> Social Process: unconventional historiographies of Korea," which is
> supported by the Academy of Korean Studies with a Korean Studies
> Institutional Grant, the first issue has just been published of a
> peer-reviewed online journal: Korean Histories:
www.koreanhistories.org
> The issue contains four articles:
> Cheju 1901: Records, memories and current concerns Boudewijn Walraven
> Korea's forgotten war: Appropriating and subverting the Vietnam War in
> Korean popular imaginings 
> Remco E. Breuker
> 
> The failings of success: The problem of religious meaning in modern
Korean
> historiography 
> Kenneth M. Wells
> 
> History as colonial storytelling: Yi Kwangsu's historical novels on
> fifteenth-century Chos?n history Jung-Shim Lee
> The reasoning that is behind the creation of this biannual peer-reviewed
> journal Korean Histories has proceeded from a simple idea: the creation
of
> history in the sense of representations of the past is a social activity
> that involves many more individuals and groups than the community (or
> rather communities) of professional historians and, it will be
superfluous
> to say, long predates the 19th-century emergence of historiography as an
> academic specialism in the context of the rise of
modern nation-states. 
> The involvement of other actors becomes even more obvious if one
considers
> the many ways history actually functions in human societies. Because
> representations of the past in some form or another are judged to be
> socially relevant, historical representations are not the exclusive
> preserve of the professionals but also are produced by novelists, film
> makers, painters, sculptors, journalists, politicians and members of the
> general public, and they are part and parcel of the discourse of many
> social and political debates. It is probably as difficult to imagine a
> society that does not in some way represents its past(s) as it is to
> imagine a society without any form of religion, even if one may doubt
the
> reality of what is represented or of the objects of worship.
> Historical representation, in whatever form, is a social fact that
cannot
> be ignored, and certainly not in Korea, present or past. Korean
Histories
> does not a priori take sides
in the debate on the question to which
degree
> the representation of history can be an adequate reflection of the past,
> leaving judgment in this regard to its contributors, but invites
articles
> that introduce new perspectives by striving to make sense of the Korean
> past with a sensitivity to the richness and variety of both sources and
> interpretations, conscious of the social embeddedness of historiography.
> Approaches may be either historical or anthropological. Although ?Korea?
> (in itself a historically and socially constituted concept) is the
focus,
> Korean Histories also welcomes contributions about regional and
> transnational issues that have a bearing on Korea, as well as papers
that
> suggest methodological alternatives or critically question the general
> approach of the journal. Apart from regular articles, research notes
will
> be published, as well as reviews of books that are relevant to the
> intentions of the journal. The format of the e-journal will also
allow
> Korean Histories to make sources available that are in the public
domain,
> but not easily accessible otherwise. The intention is to publish these
> sources with brief introductions that suggest the significance they may
> have.
> The editors welcome submissions and feed-back
> (rebreuker at koreanhistories.org). 
> 
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