The Center for Korean Research, Columbia University is pleased to announce the publication of the Journal of Korean Studies Spring 2017 issue, Volume 22, No.1. The articles are available online through Project MUSE and JSTOR, including for individuals not affiliated with a subscribing institution. The abstracts for the current issue are available at jks.weai.columbia.edu.
The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) publishes articles in all disciplines and across all time periods, both historical and contemporary. The JKS is committed to articles that engage with a Korea-related topic in a substantial way, take existing scholarship (in Korean and/or other languages) into account, and explore new methodologies and theoretical frameworks that speak to readerships beyond Korean studies. We encourage transnational, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship.
The JKS welcomes submissions year round for publication. For more information please visit jks.weai.columbia.edu and https://www.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/
The Journal of Korean Studies, Spring 2017, Volume 22, No.1
Editor’s Note
Articles
The Han’gǔl Crisis and Language Standardization: Clashing Orthographic Identities and the Politics of Cultural Construction
by Michael Kim
The Prison and the Postcolony: Contested Memory and the Museumification of Sŏdaemun Hyŏngmuso
by Russell Burge
Transnationality and Coloniality in the Concept of Modern Korean Literature
by Heekyoung Cho
Buddhism during the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910): A Collective Trauma?
by Hwansoo Kim
Assembling the Laity: Standardizing Lay Buddhist Affiliation in Contemporary Korea
by Uri Kaplan
Global Flows and the Changing Place Identity of Myŏng-dong
by Youjeong Oh
The Impact of Korean Ambassadors’ Encounters with Qing Entertainments: Focusing on Lantern Festivals, Fireworks, Plays, and Theater Facilities
by Youme Kim
Making Sense of Fiction: Social and Political Functions of Serialized Fiction in The Daily News (Maeil sinbo) in 1910s Korea
by Jooyeon Rhee
Book Reviews
A Family of No Prominence by Eugene Park
Reviewed by Don Clark
Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea: Defiant Institutionalization by Sun-Chul Kim
Reviewed by Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Empire of Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim
Reviewed by Mark Caprio