[KS] Award Ceremony | Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies

[Berkeley Center for Korean Studies]

Hong Yung Lee Book Award Ceremony
<https://events.berkeley.edu/cks/event/229847-hong-yung-lee-book-award-ceremony>


Sonia Ryang (Rice University)


Friday, February 9, 5:00 PM U.S. Pacific Time


David Brower Center, Goldman Theater
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The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to introduce the
2023 winner of the UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean
Studies, Language
and Truth in North Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2021), by Professor
Sonia Ryang (Rice University).


The award ceremony will feature a presentation by the author followed by a
book signing and cocktail hour. Hearty refreshments will be served.


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.


Sonia Ryang is T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies in Rice
University. A social anthropologist by training, Ryang works on Korean
diaspora, Korea, and Japan, and interested in ideology, romantic love,
language, food, among other topics. She is the author of *North Koreans in
Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity* (1997, Westview), *Japan and
National Anthropology: A Critique* (2004, Routledge), *Love in Modern
Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex, and Society* (2006,
Routledge), *Writing
Selves in Diaspora: Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan
and the United States* (2009, Lexington), *Reading North Korea: An
Ethnological Inquiry* (2012, Harvard), and *Eating Korean in America:
Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity* (2015, Hawaii), in addition to
edited volumes, book chapters, and journal articles. Before she moved to
Rice University, she taught in the University of Iowa and Johns Hopkins
University; she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Australian
National University after completing her PhD in Social Anthropology in
Cambridge University, England.

*Kelsey R. Wong* (she/her)
Program Director
Center for Korean Studies
University of California, Berkeley
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