STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Charles R. Kim (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea’s transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War … [Read more...]
Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Ch'ae Manshik. Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader Edited and translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton.(2017) "Sunset offers a wonderful introduction to the wide variety of writing being published in colonial and postcolonial Korea, all through the lens of the writer Ch’ae Manshik. Ch’ae is best known and loved today for his novels, but here we … [Read more...]
Beasts Head for Home: A Novel
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Abe Kōbō. Beasts Head for Home: A Novel Translated by Richard F. Calichman (2017) "The earliest work by one of Japan’s foremost writers to appear in English, Beasts Head for Home tells the story of a young Japanese man who undertakes a harrowing journey in an attempt to reach Japan after the collapse of the Japanese Empire. The story is … [Read more...]
Meeting with My Brother: A Novella
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Yi Mun-yol. Meeting with My Brother: A Novella Translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl with Yoosup Chang (2017) "Yi Mun-yol is one of South Korea's most gifted writers, and this translation gives his simple style all of the elegant force it can bring to bear. This story of two brothers who find each other only after their defector father has died … [Read more...]
The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: NEW HORIZONS IN ASIAN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Michael Lucken. Translated by Karen Grimwade. The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory (2017) "In this highly readable book, Michael Lucken combines an encyclopedic overview of Japan's diverse conflicts over the memory of WWII with a razor-sharp dissection of … [Read more...]
