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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Issuing the first volume of <I
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w:st="on">Leiden</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> research project "History as Social
Process: unconventional historiographies of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region>," which is supported by the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Korean Studies</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> with a Korean Studies
Institutional Grant, the first issue has just been published of a peer-reviewed
online journal: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean
Histories</I>:</SPAN><SPAN
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style="COLOR: blue">www.koreanhistories.org</SPAN></U></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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issue contains four articles:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><A
href="http://www.koreanhistories.org/files/KH1_1%20Walraven-Cheju1901.pdf"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT color=#800080>Cheju
1901</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><A
href="http://www.koreanhistories.org/files/KH1_1%20Walraven-Cheju1901.pdf"><FONT
color=#800080>: Records, memories and current concerns</FONT></A><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>Boudewijn
Walraven</I><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><A
href="http://www.koreanhistories.org/files/KH1_1%20Breuker-Korea's%20Forgotten%20War.pdf"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT color=#0358a8>Korea's forgotten war:
Appropriating and subverting the Vietnam War in Korean popular
imaginings</FONT></SPAN></A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><I><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Remco
E. Breuker<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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href="http://www.koreanhistories.org/files/KH1_1%20Wells-Failings%20of%20Success.pdf"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT color=#0358a8>The failings of success:
The problem of religious meaning in modern Korean
historiography</FONT></SPAN></A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><I><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Kenneth
M. Wells<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><A
href="http://www.koreanhistories.org/files/KH1_1%20Lee-History%20as%20Colonial%20Storytelling.pdf"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT color=#0358a8>History as colonial
storytelling: Yi Kwangsu's historical novels on fifteenth-century Chosŏn
history</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Jung-Shim
Lee</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The
reasoning that is behind the creation of this biannual peer-reviewed journal <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean Histories</I> 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 19<SUP>th</SUP>-century emergence of
historiography as an academic specialism in the context of the rise of modern
nation-states.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The involvement of
other actors becomes even more obvious if one considers the many ways history
actually functions in human societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Historical
representation, in whatever form, is a social fact that cannot be ignored, and
certainly not in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>, present or past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean Histories </I>does not <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">a priori</I> 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, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean Histories</I> 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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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 <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Korean Histories</I> 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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The editors
welcome submissions and feed-back (<A
href="mailto:rebreuker@koreanhistories.org"><FONT
color=#0358a8>rebreuker@koreanhistories.org</FONT></A>). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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