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Category: Military

Choson/Foreign Views/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/安土桃山

Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender and Yi Soon Shin: Fallen Avenger: Bad

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

At Planet Comicon in Kansas City last month, I came across a gentleman selling a comic book series based on the Hideyoshi invasions of Korea, known in Korea as ...

Books/Books and Articles/China-Japan/China-Korea/Choson/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/Ming/War/安土桃山

A thought on military and transnational history in lieu of a review

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In that odd lull between end-of-semester grading and final exam grading, I finally got around to reading that interlibrary loan book that was due last Friday, K...

Culture/martial arts/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Pedagogy/大正/明治/昭和

Reading Note: Oleg Benesch, “Inventing the way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan”

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Before I praise Benesch’s book, a complaint: Oxford UP pricing is absurd. Now that’s not unusual for academic hardbacks, monographs that go to libra...

Military/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Bombing makes China modern

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One thing that made China truly modern in 1932 and then again in 1937 was that its cities were being bombed. Here is a cartoon by Sapajou, the White Russian car...

English/Foreign Views/Military/Science / Technology/US-Japan/War/昭和

Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...

China-Japan/Japan/martial arts/Military/Propaganda

Heroes and big swords in Shanghai

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The 1932 Shanghai War produced its share of heroes, since any war needs heroes, both for domestic and foreign consumption. I just found two stories of a Chinese...

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...

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...

Colonial/Film/Historiography/Korea/Korea-Japan/Military/World

Modernization or Japanization? –The Movie “Homeless Angels” 1941

Posted on July 20, 2008 by sayaka / 0 Comment

I had a chance to watch a Korean movie from the colonial period, called “Homeless Angels (집없는 천사, 家なき天使),” at the Korean Film Archive (KFA) in Susek...

Books and Articles/Korea/Military/임진왜란

African mercenaries in Chosŏn

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

I meant to post a note on this interesting piece at the Oh My News website a couple of weeks ago, but other things intervened. It recounts the story of the blac...

Books and Articles/Colonial/English/General/Military/Postwar

Patriotic School Athletics – under the Japanese and After

Posted on July 20, 2006 by noja / 2 Comments

To observe that modern “physical culture” (athletics) training in the compulsory schooling system is something closely linked to the conscription sy...

English/Korea/Military/US-Korea

Don’t Take it Literally

Posted on February 14, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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...

English/Korea/Military/US-Korea

A Most Unusual Invasion

Posted on February 14, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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 ...

Cultural/Economic/General/Korea/Military/Nationalism/North Korea/Politics

Thoughts on Yusin

Posted on January 21, 2006 by jiyulkim / 3 Comments

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...

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