Korea

Contents:

Session 34: State and Society in Choson Korea: Problematics and Approaches (Sponsored by NEAC)

• Local Elite Society and State Power in Mid-Choson Korea , Ingeol Kim
• The Struggle for Control of Sowon Ritual in 17th-Century Korea, Milan G. Hejtmanek
• Patterns of Local Dominance in Choson Korea, Yunshik Chang
• On Kings Receiving Petitions from the People in the Streets: A New Politics of the Confucian Monarchy? Taejin Yi

Session 59: North Korea's Foreign Relations With Major Powers After Kim Il-Sung

• North Korean-United States Relations After Kim Il-Sung , B. C. Koh
• North Korean-Japanese Relations After Kim Il-Sung, Hong Nack Kim
• North Korean-Chinese Relations Under Kim Jong-Il, Il-Pyong J. Kim
• Russian-North Korean Relations from the Gorbachev Era to the Present, Jane Shapiro Zacek

Session 79: History and Literature in Post-War Korea

• The Relation Between History and Literature During the Park and Chun Eras, Kenneth M. Wells
• The Meaning of Meaninglessness in Kim Sûng-Ok's "Seoul: Winter 1964," Stephen J. Epstein
• Yi Ch'ông-jun's "Wall of Rumor" and Park Chung Hee's "Prison of Fear," Jennifer M. Lee
• The Sense of the Past and Victim Consciousness in Post-War Korean Literature, Jinhee Kim

Session 106: The Legacy of Kwangju After Sixteen Years: The Costs of Repression in a Democratizing State

• The 15th Anniversary of the 5.18 People's Uprising: Laying Claim to the Memory of Kwangju, Linda Lewis
• From Cheju to Kwangju: The Disappeared in Modern Korean History, David R. McCann

Session 139: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Individual and Nation in Korea's Recent Past

• Kim and Tanaka: Modernization, Social Change and the Division of Labor in Colonial Korea: A Prosopography of Technicians in the 1930s, Alain Delissen
• The Poetics of the 38th Parallel: The National Literature Movement in Divided Korea, Myung-Hee Kim
• An Ch'angho as a Revolutionary Democrat: A Revisionist View, Jacqueline Pak
• The Empress and the Powers: The Assassination of Queen Min of Korea and the Late 19th-Century Power Politics in East Asia, Bonnie Oh
• Romancing the Nation: Love and Resistance in the Early Modern Fiction of Colonial Korea, Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Session 153: The Aftermath of Democratization in South Korea

• Economic Policy-making in Newly Democratized South Korea and Taiwan, Tun-jen Cheng
• Democratic Transition and Changes in Social Movements in South Korea, Hee-Yeon Cho
• Public Finance in South Korea Under Democracy, Yeon-Seob Ha
• Continuity and Change in State-Business-Labor Relations , Eun Mee Kim

Session 176: Koryô Under Yuan: Institutional and Social Change

• The Period of Yuan Intervention in Koryô, Tangt'aek Kim
• The Todang and Political Power in the Late Koryô , John B. Duncan
• Social Mobility in Late Koryô, Seung-ki Hong

Session 208: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Korea: Religion, Social Issues, and Politics

• Korean Buddhist Rituals and Ritual Manuals During the Chosôn Period, Henrik H. Sorensen
• Discourses of Illness, Meanings of Modernity: A Cultural Construction of "Sông-in-Byông" (Adults' Diseases), June J. H. Lee
• Korean Sôn Buddhism and Ecological Awareness, Simon Moon
• Court Decisions on Women's Issues: Modern Institution and Traditional Value? Young-tae Shin
• The 1995 Local Elections in Korea, John Kie-chiang Oh

Session 221: The Role of the Independence Club (1896-1898) in Modern Korea: A Centennial Retrospective

• The Independence Club's Role in the Promotion of Democratic Thought and Behavior in Late Chosôn Dynasty Korea, Vipan Chandra
• The Independence Club and the Sunsonghoe, Korea's First Women's Society, Andrew C. Nahm
• The Independent and the Translation of Cultural Values During the Kaehwa Period in Korea, Theresa Hyun
• Sô Jaepil and Early Korean Reflections of the American Dream, Chong Min Hyun