[KS] Winner Announced: UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies (Berkeley Center for Korean Studies)

[Jinsoo An]

*ANNOUNCEMENT:*


*The Winner of **The UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies*
<https://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/hylbookaward>



The Center for Korean Studies <https://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks> at UC
Berkeley is honored to announce the 2023 winner of the UC Berkeley Hong
Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies, *Language and Truth in North Korea*
<https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/language-and-truth-in-north-korea/>
(University
of Hawaii Press, 2021), by Professor Sonia Ryang
<https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/sonia-ryang> (Rice University).



*Language and Truth in North Korea* makes a significant contribution to the
expanding scholarship on North Korea.  Prof. Ryang’s bracing methodology
and innovative framework sets her treatise apart from the conventional
approach to the country’s political culture. By focusing on the practice of
language in various genres, performances, and registers, Prof. Ryang offers
a distinct and imaginative interpretation of the workings of political
cohesion: how state power is diffused and ingrained in the everyday
linguistic tenor of life in North Korea.  It also exemplifies admirable
commitment to anthropological distance—a form of sincerity that is
essential to cultural analysis.



The UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies and its $10,000
prize were created to support groundbreaking research and writing that
seeks to further the field of Korean Studies. A ceremony to celebrate the
award and Professor Ryang’s achievement will be held at UC Berkeley on
February 2, 2024.



The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is deeply grateful to all the
authors and publishers who participated in this round of competition. We
will soon be making a separate announcement launching next year’s
competition, which will be open to submissions of Korean Studies books
published in 2022 and 2023.



*Jinsoo An*
Associate Professor
The Korea Foundation Chancellor's Chair in Korean Language & Culture
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chair, Center for Korean Studies
UC Berkeley
https://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/jinsoo
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