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<div>The <i>Donga ilbo</i> today has front page news that new documents have been discovered that show how Kaesong merchants in the late 18th and 19th centuries used double-entry bookkeeping, often seen as the hallmark of capitalism. The latest issue of the
<i>Sungkyun Journal of East Asian</i><i> Studies</i><i> </i>(13.2), published two days ago, has a long and thorough article about these very documents, as well as similar documents from the DPRK, by Seong-ho Jun, James B. Lewis, and Sung-kwan Huh. The article
("Korean Double-Entry Merchant Accounts from Kaesong City (1786-1892)") is of obvious importance for the economic history of Korea, but also devotes some attention to religious aspects of the documents. </div>
<div>If you are interested, the <i>Sungkyun Journal</i> is available online: <a href="http://sjeas.skku.edu"><font color="blue"><u>http://sjeas.skku.edu</u></font></a>. </div>
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<div>The same issue has several other articles that are about Korea or in some way are related to Korean Studies. Choong-yeol Kim writes about a paradigm shift in the thinking of Confucian intellectuals in "New Public Values and Norms in Late Nineteenth Century
Korea". The dilemmas of Koreans who wanted to pursue an academic career in colonial Korea are discussed by Sang-ho Ro in "Cultural Hybridity and "Mimic Men" in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yi Chin-o (1906-1987)". Peter Moody analyzes North Korean propaganda
in "Chollima, the Ten-Thousand Li Flying Horse: Neo-Traditionalism at Work in North Korea", and an article by Hyun-ho Joo about the widely distributed court gazettes in the late Qing period, "The Jingbao as Late Qing China's News Medium and its Reports of Korean
Affairs" shows how this medium sheds light on certain aspects of Korean-Chinese relations in this era.</div>
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<div>The full list of contents of the issue is as follows:</div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Korean Double-Entry Merchant Accounts from Kaesŏng City (1786-1892)</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> James LEWIS; Seong-Ho JUN; Sung-Kwan HUH</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">The Constitutional Debate in Early Qing China</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> John DELURY</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">New Public Values and Norms in Late Nineteenth Century Korea: Reformist Intellectuals’ Visions of a Post-Confucian Society</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Choong-Yeol KIM</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Cultural Hybridity and “Mimic Men” in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yu Chin-o (1906-1987)</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Sang-Ho RO</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Chollima, The Thousand Li Flying Horse: Neo-traditionalism at Work in North Korea</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Peter MOODY</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">The <i>Jingbao</i> as Late Qing China’s News Medium and Its Reports on Korean Affairs</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Hyun-Ho JOO</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">The Changing Characteristics of the <i>Shi</i> in Ancient China and Their Significance</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Kyung-Ho KIM</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><b>BOOK REVIEWS</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:66pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Thomas U. BERGER</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>War Guilt and World Politics: The Legacy of World War II </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Kurt W. RADTKE</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Peter NOLAN</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>Is China Buying the World?</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by </i>Frank N. PIEKE</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Susanna Soojung LIM</span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:4.75pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-right:-2.3pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"><i>by</i> Dmitry SHLAPENTOKH</span></font></div>
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