[KS] Jazz in Korea--Josephine Baker

[Adam Bohnet]

Dear all:

I dropped by the library today (I had other business) and made some  
quick PDFs of three of the stories (the story of C harbour, the story  
of the Dong café, and one other, from December, September, and August,  
I believe) from Chogwang. Notably I scanned them in context; they are  
not on their own but with other works of literature (prose and poetry)  
as they were published.

They are not, I am ashamed to say, in a form which would please a  
scholar. I had trouble with the TOC, and eventually gave up, gathering  
together an unusable mass of photographs which I did not post to my  
homepage. I may try again on Monday. I also didn’t scan the covers!  
However,  having read the TOCs, I would like to say that the claim,  
made by Steve, that these stories are clearly factual, is not tenable.  
They are not included with the non-fiction, but in the explicitly  
literary parts of the magazine.

My area of interest is late Chosŏn, so I am not at all invested  
in Josephine Baker never coming to Korea.  But some better evidence,  
some corroboration, is needed. Above all, it is vital that historians  
read sources in context -  reading a source out of context is like  
climbing trees to catch fish.

The file is on  my homepage:  
https://sites.google.com/site/adambohnet/files-and-notes.

If you have trouble finding that link, then search me on Academia dot  
edu, find the link to my homepage, and then go to “ files and notes”  
on my homepage.

Sincerely,

Adam Bohnet