<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-3831447437723294629WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div align="center"><table class="m_-3831447437723294629MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr style="height:188.5pt"><td width="678" valign="top" style="width:508.5pt;border:solid #5b9bd5 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:188.5pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="164" height="164" id="m_-3831447437723294629Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D2B43C.3B652ED0">           <img width="203" height="203" id="m_-3831447437723294629Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D2B43C.3B652ED0"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></td></tr><tr><td width="678" valign="top" style="width:508.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid #5b9bd5 1.5pt;border-bottom:solid #5b9bd5 1.0pt;border-right:solid #5b9bd5 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"><br><strong><span style="font-family:Roboto">The Center for Korean Research and Columbia University Press announce a new Korean Studies Book Initiative</span></strong><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and Columbia University Press are pleased to announce a new Korean studies book initiative. A $10,000 subvention will be awarded each year on a competitive basis to an author who has secured a contract from Columbia University Press for an outstanding Korea-related book in any academic discipline and covering any time period. Applications for the subvention are not required. Columbia University Press will consider all Korea-related manuscripts under contract in a given year for the award. The designation “A Center for Korean Research Book” will appear on the title page of the book, along with acknowledgment of the funding source on the copyright page.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">“The Center for Korean Research is happy to have the opportunity to expand its publications activity through its partnership with Columbia University Press. We hope that Center for Korean Research Books will advance Korea-related scholarship in the social sciences and humanities,” remarks Theodore Hughes, director of the Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Christine Dunbar, editor, Columbia University Press says, “From Peter Lee’s</span><span class="m_-3831447437723294629apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Sources of Korean Tradition</span></em><span class="m_-3831447437723294629apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">to Janet Poole’s</span><span class="m_-3831447437723294629apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea</span></em><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">, Columbia University Press has long been dedicated to publishing seminal translations and forward-thinking monographs in Korean studies. We are delighted to be working with the Center for Korean Research to continue this important work.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:19.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#222222">Those interested in publishing in the series should send to Christine Dunbar, editor at Columbia University Press (<a href="mailto:cd2654@columbia.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#e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