April 2016 issue of the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is online!

Boudewijn Walraven Announcement
Announcement Type
Online Digital Resources
Location
South Korea
Subject Fields
Japanese History / Studies, Chinese History / Studies, East Asian History / Studies, Korean History / Studies, Asian History / Studies

The April 2016 issue of the open-access Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is online (http://sjeas.skku.edu), with three articles and two book reviews relevant to Japanese Studies: an article by Michael Kim on Japanese policies with regard to the migration of Chinese labor to Manchuria and colonial Korea, one by Sungwoo Kang on the commodification of water for Japanese settlers in Pusan, and an article by Letizia Guarini om Kurahashi Yumiko. Book reviews are by Jae-Yon Lee and Mary Alice Haddad.

Full list of contents:

ARTICLES

   Re-Conceptualizing the Boundaries of Empire: The Imperial Politics of Chinese Labor

Migration to Manchuria and Colonial Korea

by Michael KIM

   The Commodification of Water and Power Relations between Japanese Settlers and Koreans

in Late Nineteenth-Century Pusan

by Sungwoo KANG

   Walking through Texts: The Father-Daughter Plot in Kurahashi Yumiko’s Fiction

by Letizia GUARINI

   The Foundation of the North Korean Worker’s Party: Analyzing Russian Archival Materials

by Jinsung GONG and Kwangseo KEE

   Utilitarian Cultural Affinity: Transnational Ties between China and Singapore’s Voluntary

Associations

by Xiaolei QU

 

BOOK REVIEWS

   Phillip C. SAUNDERS and Andrew SCOBELL (eds.)

PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking

by Kurt W. RADTKE

   Sigal Ben-Rafael GALANTI, Nissim OTMAZGIN, and Alon LEVKOWITZ (eds.)

Japan's Multilayered Democracy

by Mary Alice HADDAD

   Serk-Bae SUH

Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s

by Jae-Yon LEE

   Stephen C. ANGLE and Michael SLOTE (eds.)

Virtue Ethics and Confucianism

by Mathew A. FOUST 

 

Contact Information

Boudewijn Walraven (Editor-in-Chief of SJEAS)

Academy of East Asian Studies

Sungkyunkwan University

25-2 Sungkyunkwan-ro

Jongno-gu, Seoul

Republic of Korea

 

Contact Email
boudewijnwalraven@gmail.com