[KS] News from RAS Korea

[Brother Anthony]

Members of this list who are in Seoul are welcome at our upcoming lectures in Somerset Palace, starting at 7:30 pm

June 26 Doohee Chung: Techniques Used in Royal Portraiture During the Late Joseon Dynasty
July 3 Andray Abrahamian: Myanmar and North Korea: Divergent Paths
July 10 David Shuster: Virtuous and Sexy: Making National Subjects in 1960s North Korea. 
July 24 Miliann Kang: What Are the Challenges Confronting Working Mothers in South Korea? Negotiating Gender, Work and Family Issues

We have just published the new volume of Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch  Volume 92 – 2017

Contents

Cultivating Collective Memories: Seoul’s Changgyeonggung  David Kendall
Imperial Crown Style in Colonial Korea        Nate Kornegay
The Hungnam Evacuation: A Korean War Christmas Miracle  Ned Forney
Reinventing the Lost Village of Zandari           Jon Dunbar
Korea in Early Western Cartography           Henny Savenije
Imagining Community and Nation in Late Chosŏn Kasa  Boudewijn Walraven
“To devise an escape from destiny”: The role of fortune-telling in Korea’s developmental past and neoliberal present  Matthew VanVolkenburg
Korea as Seen from the Saddle (Part Two: Pyongyang)     Robert D. Neff
Korean Women’s Traditional Outfit and Chador: Cousins?  Maija Rhee Devine
The Korean War, American POWs and the Legacy of Brainwashing                             Michael Devine
Imaginative Awakenings: Dream Writing in South Korea  Loren Goodman
Photo-Memories: DPRK-Russia By Train  Victoria Kim
100 Great Books of Korea       Notes by Richard Rutt
Annual RASKB Report

Anyone interested in purchasing a copy should write to our office at  royalasiatickorea at gmail.com 

Brother Anthony
President, RAS Korea