April 2016 issue of the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies is online!
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
Boudewijn Walraven (Editor-in-Chief of SJEAS)
Academy of East Asian Studies
Sungkyunkwan University
25-2 Sungkyunkwan-ro
Jongno-gu, Seoul
Republic of Korea