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          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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          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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          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
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          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
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          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
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          Quillon Arkenstone, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa</span><span
          style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New
          Roman""> <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/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
          style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
          Cho Young-hun, Korea 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
          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;
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          Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">동아시아는</span><span
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        </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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          mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">몇</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"">시인가</span><span
          style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">?:
        </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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          mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">동아시아사의</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"">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:
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          mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">이해를</span><span
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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"">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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        <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
<i>Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review</i>
Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
1995 University Avenue #510H
Berkeley, CA 94704-2318
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