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Category: 1960s

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

1960s/Books/China/Food/Yuan

Fake News? Chinese Cannibalism Cookbooks?

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

Sy Montgomery’s review of CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History By Bill Schutt includes the following paragraph: Next time you eat Chinese, for example...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Economics/Teaching

Teaching export-led growth

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Do you teach about export-led growth in Asia? Like to talk about the process of oh, say China, gradually exporting increasing amounts of stuff to the U.S., and ...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/Contemporary/Korea-Japan/Korean War/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945

Posted on August 7, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...

1960s/Science / Technology/US-Korea

South Korea and Thailand–(Comparative) Developmental Contexts

Posted on May 18, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 2 Comments

I’ve been playing with this image for quite some time now, and am still trying to build a “thick” context around it for a piece that should  (...

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...

1945-1950/1960s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic

Posted on February 15, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 7 Comments

I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...

1960s/1970s/Art/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korean Propoganda Posters

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.

1960s

“Catching up”–conferences & SE Asia highways

Posted on May 16, 2009 by John P. DiMoia / 2 Comments

It’s been quite some time since I have posted (teaching two classes this semester has had that effect), but I wanted to catch up by mentioning several con...

1960s/1970s/General/Historiography/Korea/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Postwar

“Prosthetic Memories”

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Seungsook Moon at Japan Focus has an interesting historiographical essay about the contested life and legacy of Park Chung Hee, who led Korea through the 60s an...

1960s/1970s/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korea’s engagement with the world

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I remember the shocked look on my students’ faces fifteen years ago when I told them that we actually had no idea how decisions were made or leaders picke...

1960s/Economic/Politics

“Mass-based dictatorship”? A little info on S. Korea’s welfare policies in the 1960s

Posted on July 27, 2006 by noja / 0 Comment

In South Korean academia, one of the most long-standing and productive discussions (I have been following it for around 3 years now, but it may have begun even ...

1960s/1970s/Books and Articles

Kim Hwanp’yo and his “Ssalpap chŏnchaeng”

Posted on July 16, 2006 by noja / 1 Comment

Several days ago, I was happy to be presented a newly published book by the publishers who had also earlier printed two of my own books – that is, by Seou...

1960s/Film/Korea/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

4.19 and 5.18: spot the difference

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

In lieu of actually providing some original content myself (soon…), can I point our patient readers once again toward the excellent blog Gusts of Popular ...

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