[KS] Korean Studies articles

[Walraven, B.C.A.]

The Donga ilbo today has front page news that new documents have been discovered that show how Kaesong merchants in the late 18th and 19th centuries used double-entry bookkeeping, often seen as the hallmark of capitalism. The latest issue of the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (13.2), published two days ago, has a long and thorough article about these very documents, as well as similar documents from the DPRK, by Seong-ho Jun,  James B. Lewis, and Sung-kwan Huh.  The article ("Korean Double-Entry Merchant Accounts from Kaesong City (1786-1892)") is of obvious importance for the economic history of Korea, but also devotes some attention to religious aspects of the documents.
If you are interested, the Sungkyun Journal is available online: http://sjeas.skku.edu.

The same issue has several other articles that are about Korea or in some way are related to Korean Studies. Choong-yeol Kim writes about a paradigm shift in the thinking of Confucian intellectuals in "New Public Values and Norms in Late Nineteenth Century Korea". The dilemmas of Koreans who wanted to pursue an academic career in colonial Korea  are discussed by Sang-ho Ro in "Cultural Hybridity and "Mimic Men" in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yi Chin-o (1906-1987)". Peter Moody analyzes North Korean propaganda in "Chollima, the Ten-Thousand Li Flying Horse: Neo-Traditionalism at Work in North Korea", and an article by Hyun-ho Joo about the widely distributed court gazettes in the late Qing period, "The Jingbao as Late Qing China's News Medium and its Reports of Korean Affairs" shows how this medium sheds light on certain aspects of Korean-Chinese relations in this era.

The full list of contents of the issue is as follows:

ARTICLES

Korean Double-Entry Merchant Accounts from Kaesŏng City (1786-1892)
by James LEWIS; Seong-Ho JUN; Sung-Kwan HUH

The Constitutional Debate in Early Qing China
by John DELURY

New Public Values and Norms in Late Nineteenth Century Korea: Reformist Intellectuals’ Visions of a Post-Confucian Society
by Choong-Yeol KIM

Cultural Hybridity and “Mimic Men” in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yu Chin-o (1906-1987)
by Sang-Ho RO

Chollima, The Thousand Li Flying Horse: Neo-traditionalism at Work in North Korea
by Peter MOODY

The Jingbao as Late Qing China’s News Medium and Its Reports on Korean Affairs
by Hyun-Ho JOO

The Changing Characteristics of the Shi in Ancient China and Their Significance
by Kyung-Ho KIM


BOOK REVIEWS
Thomas U. BERGER
War Guilt and World Politics: The Legacy of World War II
by Kurt W. RADTKE

Peter NOLAN
Is China Buying the World?
by Frank N. PIEKE

Susanna Soojung LIM
China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922
by Dmitry SHLAPENTOKH


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