Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

Along with Korea Between Empires and Two Dreams in One Bed, I think this provides a nice little trio to survey Japanese-Korean relations in the late 19th/early 20th century - all three from different angles. Duus is ( Read more... )

춘향뎐/春香伝 Chunhyangdyeon [Chunhyang], 2000. Dir. 林權澤/임권택 IM Kwon-taek. Acted JO Seung-woo, LEE Hyo-jeong. CJ Entertainment (Seoul).


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Andre Schmid, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)

Short synopsis: nationalizing discourse in Korea didn't just include 'what will make us a nation?', but a healthy dose of self-flaggelation, puffed up history, and probably looking towards Japan a little too much. In "de-centering" the Middle Kingdom (China ( Read more... )

Hahn Moo-Sook, And So Flows History [Yŏksanŭn hŭrŭnda], trans. Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Honolulu: Uninversity of Hawai'i Press, 2005 ( Read more... )

李淑媛 Yi Sugwŏn (Li Shuyuan) late 16th century [Korean ( Read more... )

許景樊 Hŏ Kyŏngbŏn (Xu Jingfan) 1563-89 [Korean ( Read more... )

blatantly ripping a page out of her expertly done book, mediadiary. :) (I just got a program that lets me take screen captures from my DVD program and OMG was I excited)

취화선 Chihwaseon [Painted Fire], dir. 林權澤 Im Kwon-taek, starring 崔岷植 Choi Min-sik, 2002 ( Read more... )