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Index of Reviews by Book Author

• Abelmann, Nancy, Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent:  A South Korean Social Movement (1996), reviewed by Changzoo Song (1998)
• Alford, C. Fred, Think No Evil:  Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (1999), reviewed by Michael Goodwin (2000)
• Byong-Man Ahn, Elites and Political Power in South Korea, (2003) reviewed by Carl J. Saxer (2004)
• Cha, Victor D., Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (1999), reviewed by George Oakley Totten III (2000)
• Cherry, Judith, Korean Multinationals in Europe, (2001), reviewed by Ruediger Frank (2001)
• Cho Young-Mee and Hyo Sang Lee, Carol Schulz, Ho-min Sohn and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean: Beginning One and Two (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim (2001)
• Choi, Sheena, Gender, Ethnicity, Market Forces, and College Choices: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea (2001), reviewed by Hyaeweol Choi
• Ch'ôn Sang Pyông, Back to Heaven:  Selected Poems of Ch'ôn Sang Pyông (1995-96), reviewed by Sunny Jung (1998)
• Chong Hyon-jong, Day-Shine (1998), reviewed by Gregory Evon (2000)
• Choo, Miho and William O'Grady, Handbook of Korean Vocabulary:  A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension (1996), reviewed by Nevitt Reagan (1999)
• Chung, David, Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea (2002), reviewed by Young-chan Ro
• Chung Myung Chang, The Bank of Korea: A History of Fifty Years (2000), reviewed by Bernhard Saliger
• Clark, Donald N., Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900-1950, (2003) reviewed by Don Baker (2004)
• Clifford, Mark L., Troubled Tiger:  Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea (1998), reviewed by Timothy C. Lim (1998)
• Coe, David T. and Kim Se-Jik (eds), Korean Crisis and Recovery, (2002) reviewed by Bernard Seliger (2004)
• Dent, Christopher M, The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, (2002) reviewed by Ruediger Frank (2004)
• Diamond, Larry and Byoung-Kook Kim, edd., Consolidating Democracy in South Korea, (2000), reviewed by Mike Goodwin (2001)
• Duncan, John B., The Origins of the Chosôn Dynasty (2000), reviewed by J. Michael Allen (2002)
• Edwards, Paul M. , The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary, (2003) reviewed by James E. Hoare (2004)
• Finch, Michael, Min Yông-hwan: A Political Biography, (2002) reviewed by Anders Karlsson (2004)
• Gelézeau , Valérie, Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses, (2003), reviewed by James E. Hoare (2004)
• Han, Gil Soo, Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia (1999), reviewed by Donald Baker (2001)
• Hart-Landsberg, Martin, Korea:  Division, Reunification, U.S. Foreign Policy (1998), reviewed by Alon Levkowitz (1999)
• Hart, Dennis, From Tradition to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea, (2001), reviewed by Robert Hassink (2002)
• Hoass, Solrun, Rushing to Sunshine (Seoul Diaries) [video] (2001), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini (2001)
• Hyegyônggung Hong Ssi, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong:  The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi (1998)
• Hyun, Theresa, Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period, (2003), reviewed by Janet Poole (2004)
• Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, (2003) reviewed by Seungsook Moon (2004)
• Kang, Hildi, Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (2001) reviewed by Mark Caprio
• Kendall, Laurel, Getting Married in Korea:  Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity (1996), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini (1998)
• Kendall, Laurel, ed. Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea (2002), reviewed by Heike Hermanns (2002)
• Kim, Choong Soon, A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur:  A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891-1955 (1998), reviewed by Wayne Patterson (1999)
• Kim Ch'un-Su, The Snow Falling on Chagall's Village:  Selected Poems by Kim Ch'un-Su (1998), reviewed by Theodore Hughes (1999)
• Kim Eun Mee, Big Business, Strong State:  Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997), reviewed by Ruediger Frank (1999)
• Kim Hunggyu, Understanding Korean Literature (1997), reviewed by Carolyn So (1998)
• Kim Kichung, An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature (1996), reviewed by Peter Schroepfer (2001)
• Kim Nam-Kil, Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader (2000), reviewed by Jaehoon Yeon (2001)
• Kim, Richard E., Lost Names: Scenes froma Korean Boyhood (1998) reviewed by J. Michael Allen (2001)
• Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim and Lee Si-Young, Variations: Three Korean Poets (2001), reviewed by Sehjae Chun
• Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil, A Forgotten People:  The Sakhalin Koreans [video] (1995), reviewed by Stephen Epstein (1999)
• Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil, Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (1999), reviewed by Keith Howard (2000)
• Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, ed., The Korean Alphabet:  Its History and Structure (1997), reviewed by Joe J. Ree (1999)
• Kister, Daniel A., Korean Shamanist Ritual:  Symbols and Dramas of Transformation (1997), reviewed by Kang-Nam Oh (1999)
• King, Ross and Jae-Hoon Yeon. Elementary Korean, (2000) reviewed by S. M. Hong-Schunka (2004)
• Kleiner, Juergen, Korea: A Century of Change (2001), reviewed by Carl Saxer
• Ko Un, Beyond Self:  108 Korean Zen Poems (1997), reviewed by Kevin O'Rourke (1999)
• Koo, Hagen. Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation, (2001) (reviewed 2004) by Changzoo Song
• Kong Tat Yan, The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle (2000), reviewed by Rüdiger Frank
• Lee Dong-Jae, and Sookeun Cho, Miseon Lee, Min Sun Song, and William Grady, edd., Hanin hakkyo-ûi han'gugô kyoyuk yongû (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim (2001)
• Lee Junghee, Azaleas and Golden Bells:  Korean Art in the Collection of the Portland Art Museum and in Portland Private Collections (1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt (1999)
• Lee Sung-Il, The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser (2000)
• Lee Yoonmi, Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910, (2000), reviewed by Hyung-chan Kim
• Lewis, James and Sesay, Amadu Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture, (2002), reviewed by Doowon Suh (2004)
• Mason, David, Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain Worship (2000), reviewed by John Synott (2001)
• McCann, David R., Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions (2000), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser (2001)
• McCann, David, ed., Korea Briefing:  Toward Reunification (1997), reviewed by Yong Je Kim (1998)
• McCann, David R. and Strauss, Barry S. , edd. War And Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (2001), reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein (2002)
• Nam Yôngshin, comp., Han+ kugô sajôn (1997), reviewed by Robert Fouser (1999)
• Nelson, Laura, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea, (2000) reviewed by Mikyeong Bae (2004)
• Laura C. Nelson, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea (2000), reviewed by Dennis Hart
• Oh, John Kie-chiang, Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development (1999), reviewed by Norman Thorpe
• Oh Kongdan, ed., Korea Briefing 1997-1999: Challenges and Change at the Turn of the Century (2000), reviewed by Keith Howard (2000)
• Pak Wan-sô, The Naked Tree (1995), reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein (1998)
• Pak Wanso, My Very Last Possession and Other Stories, (1999), reviewed by Diana Hinds (2000)
• Pai Hyung Il, Constructing 'Korean' Origins (2000), reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay (2001)
• Pai Hyung Il and Timothy R. Tangherlini, edd., Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity (1998), reviewed by Sallie Yea (2001)
• Park Je-chun, trans. Ko Chang Soo, Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun, (1997) reviewed by Scott Swaner (2004)
• Park Kyeyoung, The Korean American Dream:  Immigrants and Small Business in New York City (1997), reviewed by Roger Janelli (1999)
• Park Kyong-ni, Land (1996), reviewed by Chun Kyung-Ja (1998)
• Patterson, Wayne, The Ilse: First Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (2000), reviewed by Kwang Chung Kim
• Peterson, Mark A., Korean Adoption and Inheritance (1996), reviewed by James H. Grayson (1998)
• Pong Ja Paik, Ji Young Kwak, and Ji Hyoun Choi, Korean Composition,  (2002), reviewed by Gerard Krzic (2004)
• Pratt, Keith and Richard Rutt, Korea:  A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (1999), reviewed by Dennis Hart (2000)
• Rhodes, Daisy Chun, Passages to Paradise:  Early Korean Immigrant Narratives from Hawai'i (1998), reviewed by Richard S. Kim (1998)
• Rutt, Richard:  see Pratt, Keith
• Ryang, Sonia, ed., Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (2000), reviewed by Haesook Kim
• Schulz, Carol and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean Workbook: Beginning One and Two (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim (2001)
• Shin Doh C., Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (1999), reviewed by Mike Goodwin (2001)
• Shin Jeong-Hyun, The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories (1998), reviewed by Stephen Epstein (2001)
• Scott-Stokes, Henry and Lee Jai Eui, edd. The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen, (2000), reviewed by Luc Walhain
• Seth, Michael J. Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea, (2002), reviewed by Matthew Shapiro
• Setton, Mark, Chông Yagyong:  Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism (1997), reviewed by John I. Goulde (1998)
• Schmid, Andre. Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, (2002), reviewed by Michael Finch (2004)
• Shin Gi-Wook, Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996), reviewed by Sallie Yea (1999)
• Shin Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson, edd. Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999), reviewed by Michael Finch
• Shin Kyông-Nim, Farmers' Dance (1999), reviewed by Gregory Evon (2000)
• Shultz, Edward J, Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea (2000), reviewed by James Lewis (2001)
• Sô Chôngju, The Early Lyrics 1941-1960: Poems by So Chong-Ju (1998), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi (2000)
• Song Young In and Ailee Moon, eds., Korean American Woman Living in Two Cultures (1997), reviewed by Soo-Young Chin (1998)
• Springer, Chris, Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital, with photos by Eckart Dege, (2003), reviewed by Valérie Gelézeau (2005)
• Steinberg, David I. Stone Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea, (2002) reviewed by Bernhard Selinger (2004)
• Sung-hee, Jwa. The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea: A New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Chaebol, (2002) reviewed by Matthew Shapiro (2004)
• Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh, edd. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II (2001), reviewed by Thomas Clark Tufts
• Van Zile, Judy, ed., The Halla Huhm Dance Collection:  An Inventory and Finding Aid (1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt (1999)
• West, Philip and Ji-moon Suh, edd., Remembering 'The Forgotten War': The Korean War Through Literature and Art (2000), reviewed by David R. McCann (2001)
• Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hô Nansôrhôn, (2003), reviewed by Younghee Lee (2005)
• Yang Sung Chul, The North and South Korean Political Systems - A Comparative Analysis (1999), reviewed by Bernhard Saliger (2000)
• Yi Ch'ông-jun, The Prophet and Other Stories (1999), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser (2000)

Index of Reviews by Reviewer

Allen, J. Michael

• Kim, Richard E., Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (1998) (reviewed 2001)
• John B. Duncan, The Origins of the Chosôn Dynasty (2000) (reviewed 2002)

Bae, Mikyeong

• Nelson, Laura, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea, (2000) (reviewed 2004)

Baker, Donald

• Han Gil Soo, Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia (1999) (reviewed 2001)
• Clark, Donald N., Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900-1950, (2003) (reviewed by 2004)

Buzo, Adrian

• Peter Banaschak, Worthy Ancestors and Succession to the Throne:  On the Office Ranks of the King's Ancestors in Early Silla Society (1997) (reviewed 1998)

Caprio, Mark

• Hildi Kang, Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (2001) (reviewed 2002)

Chin, Soo-Young

• Song, Young In and Ailee Moon, eds., Korean American Woman Living in Two Cultures (1997) (reviewed 1998)

Choi Hyaeweol

• Sheena Choi, Gender, Ethnicity, Market Forces, and College Choices: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea (2001) (reviewed 2002)

Chun, Kyung-Ja

• Park Kyong-ni, Land (1996) (reviewed 1998)

Chun, Sehjae

• Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim and Lee Si-Young, Variations: Three Korean Poets (2001) (reviewed 2002)

Epstein, Stephen J.

• Kim-Gibson, Dai-Sil A Forgotten People:  The Sakhalin Koreans [video] (1995) (reviewed 1999)
• Pak Wan-sô, The Naked Tree (1995) (reviewed 1998)
• Shin Jeong-Hyun, The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories (1998) (reviewed 2001)
• McCann, David R. and Strauss, Barry S. , edd. War And Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (2001) (reviewed 2002)

Evon, Gregory Nicholas

• Chong Hyon-jong, Day-Shine (1998) (reviewed 2000)
• Kim, Ah-jeong and R.B. Graves, The Metacultural Theater of Oh T'ae-sôk: Five Plays from the Korean Avant-Garde (1999), (reviewed 2000)
• Shin Kyông-Nim, Farmers' Dance (1999) (reviewed 2000)

Finch, Michael

• Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, edd. Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999) (reviewed 2002)
• Michael Schmid , Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, (2002) (reviewed 2004)

Fouser, Robert

• Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton, A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction (1998) (reviewed 2000)
• Lee Sung-Il , The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998) (reviewed 2000)
• Nam Yôngshin. , comp., Han+ kugô sajôn (1997) (reviewed 1999)
• Yi Ch'ông-jun, The Prophet and Other Stories (1999) (reviewed 2000)
• McCann, David R., Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions (2000) (reviewed 2001)

Frank, Ruediger

• Eun Mee Kim, Big Business, Strong State:  Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997) (reviewed 1999)
• Cherry, Judith, Korean Multinationals in Europe, (2001) (reviewed 2001)
• Tat Yan Kong, The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle (2000) (reviewed 2002)
• Dent, Christopher M, The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, (2002) (reviewed 2004)

Gelézeau, Valérie

• Springer, Chris, Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital, with photos by Eckart Dege, (2003) ( reviewed 2005)

Goodwin, Michael

• C. Fred Alford, Think No Evil:  Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (1999) (reviewed 2000)
• Larry Diamond and Byoung-Kook Kim, edd., Consolidating Democracy in South Korea, (2000) (reviewed 2001)
• Shin, Doh. C, Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (1999) (reviewed 2001)

Goulde, John I.

• Mark Setton, Chông Yagyong:  Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism (1997) (reviewed 1998)

Grayson, James H.

• Mark A. Peterson, Korean Adoption and Inheritance (1996) (reviewed 1998)

Hart, Dennis

• Keith Pratt and Richard Rutt, Korea:  A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (1999) (reviewed 2000)
• Laura C. Nelson, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea (2000) (reviewed 2002)

Hassink, Robert

• Hart, Dennis, From Tradition to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea, (2001) (reviewed 2002)

Hermanns, Heike

• Kendall, Laurel, ed. Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea (2002) (reviewed 2002)

Hinds, Diana

• Pak Wanso, My Very Last Possession and Other Stories (1999) (reviewed 2000)

Hoare, James E.

• Gelézeau , Valérie, Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses (2003) (reviewed 2004)
• Edwards, Paul M.. The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary, (2003) (reviewed 2004)

Hong-Schunka, S. M.

• King, Ross and Jae-Hoon Yeon. Elementary Korean, (2000) (reviewed 2004)

Howard, Keith

• Oh, Kongdan, ed., Korea Briefing 1997-1999: Challenges and Change at the Turn of the Century (2000) (reviewed 2000)
• Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (1999) (reviewed 2000)

Hughes, Theodore

• Kim Ch'un-Su, The Snow Falling on Chagall's Village:  Selected Poems by Kim Ch'un-Su (1998) (reviewed 1999)

Janelli, Roger

• Kyeyoung Park, The Korean American Dream:  Immigrants and Small Business in New York City (1997) (reviewed 1999)

Jung, Sunny

• Ch'ôn Sang Pyông, Back to Heaven:  Selected Poems of Ch'ôn Sang Pyông (1995-96) (reviewed 1998)

Karlsson, Anders

• Finch, Michael, Min Yông-hwan: A Political Biography, (2002) (reviewed 2004)

Kim, Haesook

• Ryang, Sonia, ed., Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (2000) (reviewed 2001)

Kim, Hyung-Chan

• Yoonmi Lee, Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910 (2000)

Kim, Kwang Chung

• Patterson, Wayne, The Ilse: First Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (reviewed 2000)

Kim, Myoyoung

• Lee Dong-Jae, and Sookeun Cho, Miseon Lee, Min Sun Song, and William Grady, edd., Hanin hakkyo-ûi han'gugô kyoyuk yongû (2000) (reviewed 2001)
• Cho Young-Mee and Hyo Sang Lee, Carol Schulz, Ho-min Sohn and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean: Beginning One and Two (2000) (reviewed 2001)
• Carol Schulz and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean Workbook: Beginning One and Two (2000) (reviewed 2001)

Kim, Richard S.

• Daisy Chun Rhodes, Passages to Paradise:  Early Korean Immigrant Narratives from Hawai'i (1998) (reviewed 1998)

Kim, Yong Je

• David McCann, ed., Korea Briefing:  Toward Reunification (1997) (reviewed 1998)

Krzic, Gerard

• Korean Composition,  by Pong Ja Paik, Ji Young Kwak, and Ji Hyoun Choi (2002) (reviewed 2004)

Lee, Younghee

• Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hô Nansôrhôn, by Yang Hi Choe-Wall (2003) (reviewed 2005)

Levkowitz, Alon

• Martin Hart-Landsberg, Korea:  Division, Reunification, U.S. Foreign Policy (1998) (reviewed 1999)

Lim, Timothy L.

• Mark L. Clifford, Troubled Tiger:  Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea (1998) (reviewed 1998)

Maliangkay, Roald H.

• Pai, Hyung Il, Constructing 'Korean' Origins (2000) (reviewed 2001)

McCann, David R.

• West, Philip and Ji-moon Suh, edd., Remembering 'The Forgotten War': The Korean War Through Literature and Art (2000) (reviewed 2001)

Moon, Seungsook

• Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, (2003) (reviewed 2004)

Oh, Kang-Nam

• Daniel A. Kister, Korean Shamanist Ritual:  Symbols and Dramas of Transformation (1997) (reviewed 1999)

O'Rourke, Kevin

• Ko Un, Beyond Self:  108 Korean Zen Poems (1997) (reviewed 1999)

Patterson, Wayne

• Eun Mee Kim, A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur:  A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891-1955 (1998) (reviewed 1999)

Poole, Janet

• Hyun, Theresa, Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period, (2003) (reviewed 2004)

Reagan, Nevitt

• Miho Choo and William O'Grady, Handbook of Korean Vocabulary:  A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension (1996) (reviewed 1999

Ree, Joe J.

• Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet:  Its History and Structure (1997) (reviewed 1999)

Reinschmidt, Michael

• Judy Van Zile, ed. The Halla Huhm Dance Collection:  An Inventory and Finding Aid (1998) (reviewed 1999)
• Junghee Lee, Azaleas and Golden Bells:  Korean Art in the Collection of the Portland Art Museum and in Portland Private Collections (1998) (reviewed 1999)

Ro, Young-chan

• David Chung, Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea (2002) (reviewed 2002)

Saxer, Carl

• Juergen Kleiner, Korea: A Century of Change (2001) (reviewed 2002)
• Byong-Man Ahn, Elites and Political Power in South Korea, (2003) (reviewed 2004)

Schroepfer, Peter

• Kim, Kichung, An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature (1996) (reviewed 2001)

Shapiro, Matthew

• Seth, Michael J. Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea, (2002) (reviewed 2004)
• Sung-hee, Jwa. The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea: A New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Chaebol, (2002) (reviewed 2004)

So, Carolyn

• Hunggyu, Kim Understanding Korean Literature (1997) (reviewed 1998)

Song, Changzoo

• Abelmann, Nancy Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent:  A South Korean Social Movement (1996) (reviewed 1998)
• Koo, Hagen. Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation, (2001) (reviewed 2004)

Suh, Doowon

• Lewis, James and Sesay, Amadu Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture, (2002) (reviewed 2004)

Swaner, Scott

• Park Je-chun, trans. Ko Chang Soo, Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun, (1997) (reviewed 2004)

Synott, John

• Mason, David, Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain Worship (2000) (reviewed 2001)

Tangherlini, Timothy R.

• Laurel Kendall, Getting Married in Korea:  Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity (1996) (reviewed 1998)
• Hoass, Solrun, Rushing to Sunshine (Seoul Diaries) [video] (2001), (reviewed 2001)

Thorpe, Norman

• Oh, John Kie-chiang, Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development (1999) (reviewed 2000)

Totten, George Oakley III

• Cha, Victor D., Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (1999) (reviewed 2000)

Tufts, Thomas Clark

• Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh, edd. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II (2001), reviewed (2002)

Walhain, Luc

• Scott-Stokes, Henry and Lee Jai Eui, edd. The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen, (2000) (reviewed 2000)

Yea, Sallie

• Gi-Wook Shin, Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996) (reviewed 1999)

Yeon, Jaehoon

• Kim Nam-Kil, Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader (2000) (reviewed 2001)

Yi, Hyangsoon

• Hyegyônggung Hong Ssi, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong:  The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996) (reviewed 1998)
• Sô Chôngju, The Early Lyrics 1941-1960: Poems by So Chong-Ju (1998) (reviewed 2000)

Index of Reviews by Date and Number

1998

1. Pak Wan-sô, The Naked Tree (1995), reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
2. Mark A. Peterson, Korean Adoption and Inheritance (1996), reviewed by James H. Grayson
3. Park Kyong-ni, Land (1996), reviewed by Chun Kyung-Ja
4. Ch'ôn Sang Pyông, Back to Heaven:  Selected Poems of Ch'ôn Sang Pyông (1995-96), reviewed by Sunny Jung
5. Peter Banaschak, Worthy Ancestors and Succession to the Throne:  On the Office Ranks of the King's Ancestors in Early Silla Society (1997), reviewed by Adrian Buzo
6. Laurel Kendall, Getting Married in Korea:  Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity (1996), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
7. Nancy Abelmann, Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent:  A South Korean Social Movement (1996), reviewed by Changzoo Song
8. Mark L. Clifford, Troubled Tiger:  Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea (1998), reviewed by Timothy C. Lim
9. David McCann, ed., Korea Briefing:  Toward Reunification (1997), reviewed by Yong Je Kim
10. Song, Young In and Ailee Moon, eds., Korean American Woman Living in Two Cultures (1997), reviewed by Soo-Young Chin
11. Setton, Mark, Chông Yagyong:  Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism (1997), reviewed by John I. Goulde
12. Rhodes, Daisy Chun, Passages to Paradise:  Early Korean Immigrant Narratives from Hawai'i (1998), reviewed by Richard S. Kim
13. Kim Hunggyu, Understanding Korean Literature (1997), reviewed by Carolyn So
14. Hyegyônggung Hong Ssi, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong:  The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi

1999

1. Kim Ch'un-Su, The Snow Falling on Chagall's Village:  Selected Poems by Kim Ch'un-Su (1998), reviewed by Theodore Hughes
2. Shin Gi-Wook, Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996), reviewed by Sallie Yea
3. Ko Un, Beyond Self:  108 Korean Zen Poems (1997), reviewed by Kevin O'Rourke
4. Hart-Landsberg, Martin, Korea:  Division, Reunification, U.S. Foreign Policy (1998), reviewed by Alon Levkowitz
5. Gibson, Dai-Sil Kim, A Forgotten People:  The Sakhalin Koreans [video] (1995), reviewed by Stephen Epstein
6. Kister, Daniel A., Korean Shamanist Ritual:  Symbols and Dramas of Transformation (1997), reviewed by Kang-Nam Oh
7. Choo, Miho and William O'Grady, Handbook of Korean Vocabulary:  A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension (1996), reviewed by Nevitt Reagan
8. Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, ed., The Korean Alphabet:  Its History and Structure (1997), reviewed by Joe J. Ree
9. Park, Kyeyoung, The Korean American Dream:  Immigrants and Small Business in New York City (1997), reviewed by Roger Janelli
10. Van Zile, Judy, ed., The Halla Huhm Dance Collection:  An Inventory and Finding Aid (1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt
11. Kim, Eun Mee, Big Business, Strong State:  Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997), reviewed by Ruediger Frank
12. Kim, Choong Soon, A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur:  A Life History of Kim Songsu, 1891-1955 (1998), reviewed by Wayne Patterson
13. Lee, Junghee, Azaleas and Golden Bells:  Korean Art in the Collection of the Portland Art Museum and in Portland Private Collections (1998), reviewed by Michael Reinschmidt
14. Nam Yôngshin, comp., Han+ kugô sajôn (1997), reviewed by Robert Fouser

2000

1. Pratt, Keith and Richard Rutt, Korea:  A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (1999), reviewed by Dennis Hart
2. Chong Hyon-jong, Day-Shine (1998) and Chong Hyon-jong, Day-Shine (1998), reviewed by Gregory Nicholas Evon
3. Alford, C. Fred, Think No Evil:  Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (1999), reviewed by Michael Goodwin
4. Sô Chôngju, The Early Lyrics 1941-1960: Poems by So Chong-Ju (1998), reviewed by Hyangsoon Yi
5. Pak Wanso, My Very Last Possession and Other Stories, (1999), reviewed by Diana Hinds
6. Oh, Kongdan, ed., Korea Briefing 1997-1999: Challenges and Change at the Turn of the Century (2000), reviewed by Keith Howard
7. Kim-Gibson Dai Sil , Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (1999), reviewed by Keith Howard
8. Yang Sung Chul, The North and South Korean Political Systems - A Comparative Analysis (1999), reviewed by Bernhard Saliger
9. Patterson, Wayne, The Ilse: First Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (2000), reviewed by Kwang Chung Kim
10. Mason, David, Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain Worship (2000), reviewed by John Synott (= KSR 2001-08)
11. Cha, Victor D., Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (1999), reviewed by George Oakley Totten III
12. Scott-Stokes, Henry and Lee Jai Eui, edd. The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen (2000), reviewed by Luc Walhain
13. Lee Sung-Il , The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998);
    Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton, A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction (1998); and Yi Ch'ông-jun, The Prophet and Other Stories (1999), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser
14. Oh, John Kie-chiang, Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development (1999), reviewed by Norman Thorpe
15. Kim, Ah-jeong and R.B. Graves, The Metacultural Theater of Oh T'ae-sôk: Five Plays from the Korean Avant-Garde (1999), reviewed by Gregory Nicholas Evon
    

2001

1. Han, Gil Soo, Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia (1999), reviewed by Donald Baker
2. Kim, Richard E., Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (1998) reviewed by J. Michael Allen
3. Shin Jeong-Hyun, The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories (1998), reviewed by Stephen Epstein
4. West, Philip and Ji-moon Suh, edd., Remembering 'The Forgotten War': The Korean War Through Literature and Art (2000), reviewed by David R. McCann
5. Cherry, Judith, Korean Multinationals in Europe, (2001), reviewed by Ruediger Frank
6. Kim Nam-Kil, Modern Korean: An Intermediate Reader (2000), reviewed by Jaehoon Yeon
7. Lee Dong-Jae, and Sookeun Cho, Miseon Lee, Min Sun Song, and William Grady, edd., Hanin hakkyo-ûi han'gugô kyoyuk yongû (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim
8. Mason, David, Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's SAN-SHIN and Traditions of Mountain Worship (2000), reviewed by John Synott
9. McCann, David R., Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions (2000), reviewed by Robert J. Fouser
10. Pai, Hyung Il, Constructing 'Korean' Origins (2000), reviewed by Roald H. Maliangkay
11. Hoass, Solrun, Rushing to Sunshine (Seoul Diaries) [video] (2001), reviewed by Timothy R. Tangherlini
12. Cho Young-Mee and Hyo Sang Lee, Carol Schulz, Ho-min Sohn and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean: Beginning One and Two (2000), and Carol Schulz and Sung-Ock Sohn, Integrated Korean Workbook: Beginning One and Two (2000), reviewed by Myoyoung Kim
13. Ryang, Sonia, ed., Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (2000), reviewed by Haesook Kim
14. Pai, Hyung Il and Timothy R. Tangherlini, edd., Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity (1998), reviewed by Sallie Yea
15. Shultz, Edward J, Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea (2000), reviewed by James Lewis
16. Kim, Kichung, An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature (1996), reviewed by Peter Schroepfer
17. Shin, Doh. C, Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (1999), and Larry Diamond and Byoung-Kook Kim, edd., Consolidating Democracy in South Korea, (2000), reviewed by Mike Goodwin

2002

1. Chung, Myung Chang, The Bank of Korea: A History of Fifty Years (2000), reviewed by Bernhard Saliger
2. Hildi Kang, Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (2001) reviewed by Mark Caprio
3. Sheena Choi, Gender, Ethnicity, Market Forces, and College Choices: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea (2001), reviewed by Hyaeweol Choi
4. Laura C. Nelson, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea (2000), reviewed by Dennis Hart
5. Yoonmi Lee, Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910, (2000), reviewed by Hyung-chan Kim
6. Tat Yan Kong, The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle (2000), reviewed by Rüdiger Frank
7. John B. Duncan, The Origins of the Chosôn Dynasty (2000), reviewed by J. Michael Allen
8. Margaret Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh, edd. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II (2001), reviewed by Thomas Clark Tufts
9. J. Scott Burgeson, ed. BUG 5: Foreigners and Foreign Culture in Korea (2001), reviewed by Bernhard Saliger
10. Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, edd. Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999), reviewed by Michael Finch
11. David Chung, Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea (2002), reviewed by Young-chan Ro
12. Juergen Kleiner, Korea: A Century of Change (2001), reviewed by Carl Saxer
13. Kim Su-Young, Shin Kyong-Nim and Lee Si-Young, Variations: Three Korean Poets (2001), reviewed by Sehjae Chun
14. Kendall, Laurel, ed. Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea (2002), reviewed by Heike Hermanns
15. McCann, David R. and Strauss, Barry S. , edd. War And Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (2001), reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
16. Hart, Dennis, From Tradition to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea, (2001), reviewed by Robert Hassink

2004

1. Lewis, James and Sesay, Amadu, Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture, (2002), reviewed by Doowon Suh
2. Seth, Michael J., Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea, (2002), reviewed by Matthew Shapiro
3. Schmid, Andre, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, (2002) , reviewed by Michael Finch
4. Gelézeau , Valérie, Séoul, ville géante, cités radieuses, (2003), reviewed by James E. Hoare
5. Paik, Pong Ja , Ji Young Kwak, and Ji Hyoun Choi, Korean Composition, (2002), reviewed by Gerard Krzic
6. Coe, David T. and Kim Se-Jik (eds), Korean Crisis and Recovery, (2002) reviewed by Bernard Seliger.
7. Edwards, Paul M., The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary, (2003) reviewed by James E. Hoare.
8. Koo, Hagen. Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation, (2001) reviewed by Changzoo Song.
9. Sung-hee, Jwa. The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea: A New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Chaebol, (2002) reviewed by Matthew Shapiro.
10. King, Ross and Jae-Hoon Yeon. Elementary Korean, (2000) reviewed by S. M. Hong-Schunka
11. Hyun, Theresa, Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period, (2003) reviewed by Janet Poole
12. Park Je-chun, trans. Ko Chang Soo, Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun, (1997) reviewed by Scott Swaner
13. Dent, Christopher M, The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, (2002) reviewed by Ruediger Frank
14. Clark, Donald N., Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900-1950, (2003) reviewed by Don Baker

15. Finch, Michael, Min Yông-hwan: A Political Biography, (2002) reviewed by Anders Karlsson
16. Byong-Man Ahn, Elites and Political Power in South Korea, (2003) reviewed by Carl J. Saxer
17. Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism, (2003) reviewed by Seungsook Moon
18. Nelson, Laura, Measured Excess: Status, Gender and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea, (2000) reviewed by Mikyeong Bae
19. Steinberg, David I. Stone Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary Korea, (2002) reviewed by Bernhard Selinger

2005

1. Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hô Nansôrhôn, (2003), reviewed by Younghee Lee
2. Springer, Chris, Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital, with photos by Eckart Dege, (2003), reviewed by Valérie Gelézeau

2006

1. Duck-Koo Chung and Barry Eichengreen, The Korean Economy Beyond the Crisis(2003); Wontack Hong, Catch-up and Crisis in Korea, (2002); and O. Yul Kwon, Sung-Hee Jwa, Kyung-Tae Lee Korea's New Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era, (2003), reviewed by Bernhard Seliger