Don’t Take it Literally
I think I’ll continue making posts here and there based on a collection of US military documents from early postwar occupied Korea that I discuss in my la...
Category: Korea
A Most Unusual Invasion
Preparations for my oral exams this spring has prevented me from contributing much recently but I have started to take an hour away from my orals reading every ...
Who Owns Koguryo Now?
Yonson Ahn’s article in the latest Japan Focus tracks the historiography of the Korean/Manchurian Koguryo state up to the present “textbook wars....
Overreading Erotica
There’s a lot of presentist fallacies and overdrawn conclusions — just because a society has a reputation for sexual restraint doesn’t mean th...
AHC #3 Coming Soon!
The third edition of the Asian History Carnival will be on March 3rd (3/3), but we still don’t have a volunteer for host! So, if you’re an Asian His...
Bloody progress
It’s time to get my industrial strength can opener out and open the can of worms labeled ‘Japan’s colonial domination of Korea and modern inte...
CFP: Graduate Students’ Convention in Prague
I expect a lot of people will have seen this call for papers from Charles University in Prague already, but I’m reproducing it here in case you haven̵...
Self Introduction: Jiyul Kim
I want to thank Kirk for his invitation to join this award winning site. To begin with, I am a soldier in the US Army, a Colonel, and currently a professor in t...
Thoughts on Yusin
Readers here might be interested in giving thoughts about a query and my comment regarding Yusin on the Korean Studies Discussion List by Dr. Alon Levkowitz. Hi...
‘An Elementary Reader for Citizens’ (國民小學讀本)
At my own blog I’ve been writing a series of posts about some interesting old Korean books I’ve come across in the library of the School of Oriental and African...
Bugs, beetles and worldviews
Having been temporarily expelled from my office because of the presence of beetles that merrily eat through the wooden ceiling beams, I had to think of an entry...
Frog In A Well Project wins Best Group History Blog
The Cliopatria Awards for best history blogging have been announced and the three Frog in a Well blogs have been selected the Best Group Blog “After much ...
Wages
Just a nugget of information I thought I might throw out to our readers, all comments or reflections are welcome: It seems that unskilled wage labourers in late...
Seasonal treat for Koreanists
It has been brought to my attention that historians of premodern Korea have a very special Christmas treat in the form of the annals of the Chosŏn Dynasty (Chos...
History Carnival #22
Welcome to History Carnival #22, the final edition of 2005. I’m deeply grateful to Sharon Howard for starting this whole thing off eleven months ago, and ...