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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
open-access March 2017 issue of the e-journal <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cross-Currents: East
Asian History and Culture Review</i> includes a special <a
href="https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-22/paik"><span
style="color:blue">essay by Professor Paik Nak-chung (SNU)
titled, "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Won-</i>Buddhism
and a Great Turning in Civilization: The Role of
Religion."</span></a> Paik w<span
style="color:#222222;background:white">rites that the Korean
religion </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="color:#222222">Won</span></i><span
style="color:#222222;background:white">-Buddhism, whose
founding motto is “With this Great Opening of matter, let
there be a Great Opening of spirit,” arguably possesses
great potential, implicitly proposing a double project of at
once adapting to and overcoming modernity. Paik explores
this relatively new religion’s global significance, drawing
on the work of Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Roberto
Unger to develop his analysis.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#222222;background:white">You might also be interested
in the Korea-related research articles and book review just
published in the same issue:</span><span
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Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-22/itagaki"><span
style="color:blue">Language and Family Dispersion: North
Korean Linguist Kim Su-gyŏng and the Korean War</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
Ryuta Itagaki, Doshisha University<o:p></o:p></span> </p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-22/jung"><span
style="color:blue">Migrant Labor and Massacres: A
Comparison of the 1923 Massacre of Koreans and Chinese
during the Great Kanto Earthquake and the 1931
Anti-Chinese Riots and Massacre of Chinese in Colonial
Korea</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
Byung Wook Jung, Korea University<o:p></o:p></span> </p>
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-22/ma"><span
style="color:blue">War Remembered, Revolution Forgotten:
Recasting the Sino-North Korean Alliance in China’s
Post-Socialist Media State</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
Zhao Ma, Washington University in St. Louis<o:p></o:p></span>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-22/arkenstone"><span
style="color:blue">Nakanishi Inosuke and Chungsŏ Ijijo:
Realism and Authenticity in Early Proletarian Literature</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
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Quillon Arkenstone, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa</span><span
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Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a
href="https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-22/choyounghun"><span
style="color:blue">The History of East Asia as Newly
Recognized from the Perspectives of Korean Historians</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
Cho Young-hun, Korea University<o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A
review of: Miyazima Hiroshi and Bae Hang-seob, eds. Tong Asia
nŭn myŏt si inga?: Tong Asia-sa ŭi saeroun ihae rŭl ch’ajasŏ </span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:나눔명조;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New
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</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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</span><span
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New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">시인가</span><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">?:
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
나눔명조;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">동아시아사의</span><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><span
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New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">새로운</span><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
나눔명조;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">이해를</span><span
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Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><span
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New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">찾아서</span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
[What time is East Asia? In search of a new understanding of
East Asian history]. Seoul: Nŏmŏ puksŭ, 2015. ISBN:
9788994606392. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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