[KS] ACTA KOREANA

[Tschung Sun Kim]

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ACTA KOREANA: A JOURNAL OF KOREAN STUDIES 1998
is now available!

This inaugural issue of the Korean studies academic journal published by
Academia Koreana of Keimyung University contains
7 articles and over 15 book reviews on various topics of Korean culture,
language, philosophy, and immigration history.

Article titles include:
- Bockja Kim, The Dialectics of Emptiness and Compassion: A Reflection
of Koren Zen Buddhism from Western
Philosophical Perspective
- Sang Yil Kim, Han and Han: Phenomenological Interpretation of Hanism
- J. Ross Paul King, Korean as a Heritage Lanugage (KHL) vs. Korean as a
Foreign Language (KFL) in North America and
the Former USSR: Ambiguous Priorities and Insufficient Resources
- David Chung, Confucianism and Christianity: Morphological Analogy
- Wayne Patterson, First Generation, Second Generation, Korean Values,
American Values: negotiating Boundaries in Hawaii
- Joe Jungno Ree, Korean as a Second Language: How Should It Be Taught?
- Richard D McBride, Hidden Agendas in Life Writings on Kim Yusin

And over 15 book reviews!&. In collaboration with the Korean Studies
Review, we have cited some book reviews from their
website at http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dmu0rcp/ksrmain.htm. Book reviews
submitted directly to Acta Koreana and accepted for
publication will also appear in the Korean Studies Review at the above
website address.

- Mark L. Clifford, Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and
Generals in South Korea
    Reviewed by Timothy Lim
- Hyung Chan Kim, Tosan An Chang-ho: A Profile of a Prophetic Patriot
    Reveiwed by Michael Reinschmidt
-Jung Ha Kim, Bridge Makers and Cross Bearers: Korean-American Women and
the Church
    Reviewed by Ai ra Kim
-David McCann (ed.), Korean Briefing: Toward Reunification
    Reviewed by Yong Je Kim
-Se Eung Oh, Dr Philip Jaisohn's Reform Movement 18986-1898: A Critical
Appraisal of the Independence Club
    Reviewed by Robert Hyung Chan Kim
-Peter Banaschak, Worhty Ancestors and Successsion to the Throne: On the
Office Ranks of the King's Ancestors in Early
Silla Society
    Reviewed by Adrian Buzo
-Daisy Chun Rhodes, Passages to Paradise: Early Korean Immmigrant
Narratives from Hawai'i
   Reviewed by Richard Kim
-Mark Setton, Chong Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox
Neo-Confucianism
  Reviewed by John I. Goulde
-Young-In Song and Ailee Moon (eds.), Korean Aemrican Women in Two
Cultures
   Reviewed by Soo Young Chin
-Ji Moon Suh and Julie Pickering (trans.), The Descendents of Cain by
Hwang Sun Won
   Reviewed Sunny Jung
-Brother Anthony of Taize and Young-Moo Kim (trans.), Back to Heaven,
Selected Poems of Ch'on Sang Pyong
   Reviewed by Sunny Jung
-Yu Young-Nan (trans.), The Naked Tree, by Park Wan-so
   Reviewed by Stephen J. Epstein
-Mark A. Peterson, Korean Adoption and Inheritance: Case Studies in the
Creation of a Classic Confucian Society
   Reviewed by James H. Grayson
-Agnita Tennant (trans.), Land by Park Kyong-ni
   Reviewed by Kyungja Chun
-Laurel Kendall, Getting Married in Korea: of Gender, Morality and
Modernity
   Reviewed by Timothy Tangherlini
-Nancy Abelmann, Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korea
Social Movement
  Reviewed by Changzoo Song

Annual subscription rate: $ 18.00 in U.S. and Canada, $ 20.00 in other
countries. Payment with order is requested. Please remit in U.S. dollars
drawn on a U.S. bank. Please make check or money order payable to
Academia Koreana, and send to 12020 Wendy St., Cerritos, CA 90703, USA.

Editor: Tschung-Sun Kim, Keimyung University, Korea-U.S.A.
Editorial Board:
John B. Duncan, UCLA / Matsuso Ohmura, Waseda University, Japan / John I
Goulde, Sweet Briar College / Robert Provine, Durhan University, U.K./
German Kim, Institute of Oriental Studies, Kazakstan / Michael
Reinschmidt, Academia Koreana / J. Ross Paul King, University of British
Columbia, Canada / Young-chan Ro, George Mason Unviersity / Ailee Moon,
UCLA /
George O. Totten III, USC / Kang Nam Oh, University of Regina, Canada /
Pan Long Zheng, Yenbien University, China




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