<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif">To the Korean Studies Community:</font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif">The <b><a href="https://manoa.hawaii.edu/koreanstudies/">Center for Korean Studies</a></b> at the <b>University of Hawaii at Manoa</b> is delighted and excited to announce the publication of two marvelous Korean studies books from the University of Hawaii Press: <b>Vladimir Tikhonov's </b></font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><i>The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945 </i>and</span><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> Shinyoung Kwon's </b><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><i>Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972. </i></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif">The two books are part of our flagship <b><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/hawaii-studies-on-korea/">Hawaii Studies on Korea</a> </b>book series. Descriptions of the books are below. </font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">All inquiries, including </span><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">book</b><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">review requests</b><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">, should be sent to the </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><b>book series editor Cheehyung Harrison Kim (Dept of History, <a href="mailto:chk7@hawaii.edu">chk7@hawaii.edu</a>)</b></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">. </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">The books are </span><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/new-releases/" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">available in paperback for $28</a><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">. Check out our </span><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UH-Press-2023-Fall-Catalog.pdf" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">catalog for more information</a><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="6">Vladimir Tikhonov</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="6"><b><i>The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945</i></b></font></div><div><img src="cid:ii_loz7pna82" alt="Tikhonov Red Decades.jpg" width="393" height="480" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="6">Shinyoung Kwon</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="6"><b><i>Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972</i></b></font></div><div><img src="cid:ii_loz7q7is3" alt="Kwon Moral Authoritarianism.jpg" width="394" height="501"><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">DESCRIPTIONS</span><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><b><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-red-decades-communism-as-movement-and-culture-in-korea-1919-1945/" target="_blank"><i>The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919-1945</i> (October 2023)</a></b></font></div><font size="4"><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Vladimir Tikhonov </b><font face="times new roman, serif">is a p</font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">rofessor of Korean and East Asian studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Oslo University</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and travelogues by socialist writers, <i>The Red Decades</i> reveals Marxian socialism as a cultural phenomenon of colonial-age Korea. Providing an account of the social composition of the Communist milieu in 1920s and 1930s Korea and outlining the aims of the colonial-period Communist movement as formulated in programmic documents, this text offers a rich, nuanced description of the microcosm of Korean Communism—a setting of factional alignments, pilgrimages to Moscow, extended stays of the Korean revolutionaries as exiles in China and the Soviet Union, and a polylingual environment with Chinese, Japanese, English, and Russian being equally important as the idioms of socialist propagation and international networking. Placing the endeavors of colonial-age Communists within a global historical context allows for dissections of how Korean socialists' ideals interacted with the realities of the conservative turn taking place in the Soviet Union since the late 1920s, as well as considering the implication of Stalinism for Korean revolutionary culture. Yet this analysis also focuses on the individuals involved, especially on their persistent issue of factionalism in the Korean Communist movement and on the role of underground radicalism in shaping the subaltern subjectivities of the participants. The Red Decades discusses the world-historical place of “alternative modernity” that colonial-age socialists of Korea were pursuing. Based on a wealth of Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese primary sources, including the Korea-related parts of the archives of Comintern, an under-utilized resource in Anglophone scholarship. The research also accommodates the achievements of the last decades, from South Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Anglophone and Russophone academic worlds. The breadth of this study situates the philosophical, historiographical, and political practices of Marxism of colonial Korea in the global historical perspective and simultaneously explores the long-lasting influences of the Communist movement in post-1945 North and South Korea.</font><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><b><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/moral-authoritarianism-neighborhood-associations-in-the-three-koreas-1931-1972/" target="_blank"><i>Moral Authoritarianism: Neighborhood Associations in the Three Koreas, 1931-1972 </i>(November 2023)</a></b></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Shinyoung Kwon </b></font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and did postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge.</span><font size="4"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></font></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><i style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Moral Authoritarianism</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states—the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea—by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s–1960s). The existing historiography perceives the three states in relation to imperialism and to the Cold War, thus emphasizing their differences by political changes. By shifting the focus from national policy to local society, this book instead reveals their deep similarities. Neighborhood associations dated back to the premodern Chosŏn period (1392–1910), where they had been used to assist local governance. They faded in significance until the colonial government established “patriotic neighborhood associations” in 1938 for its war against China. Through analysis of government documents from the three Koreas and additional sources including diaries, leaflets, newspapers, and even fiction, </span><i style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Moral Authoritarianism</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> explores neighborhood associations as a site of negotiation between families, local society, and the central government, exposing the moral authoritarian structure present in all three Koreas. Colonial neighborhood associations, tasked with the national mobilization of local Koreans, advanced programs of mass enlightenment that privileged state interests over individual rights, in the process blurring the line between morality and state authority and superimposing patriarchal familial dynamics on societal relations. Despite their different ideological orientations, the neighborhood associations of two postliberation Koreas shared the same enlightenment mission with their earlier forms, and this commonality is critical to understanding the authoritarian direction taken by South and North Korea. The neighborhood association entrusted each state with promoting community-based morality and spirit of voluntarism as an alternative to amoral laissez-faire capitalism and the individual right-based West. Consequently, the state retained its supremacy over the populace at the most basic level of community organization, and Koreans were encouraged to be voluntarily active to state calls, culminating into two authoritarianisms of the 1970s—Korean style democracy and “our own style” socialism.</span><br></font></div><div><div><br></div></div></div>
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