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Category: Korea

Korea/Korea-China/Korean War

An Interpreter’s Tale

Posted on July 6, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

I have been collecting notes for a study of the treason of interpreters. This may not make it into my dissertation, but I find the topic fascinating. In the his...

General/Korea

A Chinese Warlord’s Predictions for the Korean War

Posted on July 4, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Yan Xishan, former warlord of Shanxi province and briefly premier of the Chinese republic wrote a book, Peace or World War, that was published in its English tr...

Colonial/Cultural/Gender/General/Korea/Korean

Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples

Posted on June 13, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

When I was preparing for my oral exams last semester, the professors who do not work on East Asia (I had a European historian and a Latin American historian in ...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/Politics

A Question of Credibility: The ASCK

Posted on May 25, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 20 Comments

Of late I have become depressed by what I see as a lack of credibility in some of the efforts to counter the flood of media reports and bombastic condemnations ...

1960s/Korea/Korea-China

The Will of a Traitor

Posted on May 13, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

In The Will of a Traitor, posted next door at 井底之蛙, I write about the controversial will of China’s most famous collaborator, and an interesting English t...

Academia/Colonial/Conferences/English/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

AAS 2010 Blogging: Annexation Centennial

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

Final exams crash onto my desk tomorrow, but I’m as organized as I can be in advance, so I thought I’d do a little belated AAS blogging, especially ...

General/Korea

Guides at Frog in a Well

Posted on April 12, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...

Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Korean

Non-Orientalizing Colonial Ethnography

Posted on April 3, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

I am re-visiting reprints of a journal called Korean Social Work (『朝鮮社会事業』), which colonial bureaucrats and social reformers in Korea published nearly every mon...

English/Historiography/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 2

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I’m having great fun with this class, but I’m still discovering vast areas of ignorance as we move along: Eunuchs: The Kabo reforms abolish the offi...

Christianity/Frog in A Well/Historical analogies/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Religion/Textbooks

Tonghak and Taiping

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheist...

General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Military

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 1 of many

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

Now that I’m teaching my Korean History course I am, of course, running into questions I cannot answer. I’m going to post them here periodically: Th...

Korea/Libraries/Web Sites

Now in Firefox: Korean Newspapers at the National Library

Posted on November 11, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I just heard from one of our fellow contributors here at Frog in a Well that the National Library of Korea now offers limited support for a variety of browsers!...

Academia/bibliography/General/Historiography/Korea/Textbooks/Web Sites

Once more, dear friends, into the breach….

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

In my first post here I said that I was going to be teaching a Korean history course for the first time: I lied. Or rather, I was scheduled to teach it, but the...

Books and Articles/Colonial/Korea

Japanese Publications on Colonial Bureaucracy

Posted on August 13, 2009 by sayaka / 1 Comment

I would like to introduce two recent publications on colonial bureaucrats here. One is Okamoto Makiko, Shokuminchi kanryô no seijishi (岡本真希子『植民地官僚の政治史:朝鮮・台湾総督府と...

General/Korea

Reflecting on “Giants”

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Todd Crowell reports that Kim Dae Jung is seriously ill and reflects on his life and career as a “Giant of [Asian] Democracy” For Kim achieving the ...

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