North Korea North Korea and Border Crossings in Northeast Asia 10 Feb 2017 On 17 February, I will be lecturing at the Irish Institute for Korean Studies at University College Cork, a dynamic university in the revolutionary heartland of the Republic of Ireland.…
China… Contested Era, Blossoming Memory: Reconsidering the Early 1950s in the Present PRC 1 Nov 201014 Feb 2014 In walking around Chinese book markets, perusing Chinese newspapers, talking to Chinese scholars and intellectuals, and just plain thinking here in the PRC, the remarkable fact emerges of the enormous…
Cultural Politics… Koreanist Schisms: Myers, Cumings, Hitchens(?) 3 Feb 201012 Sep 2018 Now that even Christopher Hitchens is writing about the new North Korea book by Brian Myers, people are paying attention. For once, at least, new arguments are being presented in…
Chinese nationalism… Advance! : Sino-Korean Research in the Publication Pipeline 16 Jan 201016 Jan 2010 Seattle is full of goodness on this misty, sunny, drizzling, French press in the morning weekend. Eastern mountains blaze with snow and light, Japanese-Americans send out slabs of sushi in…
