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Volume 1, 1979
Editorial Article
- Some Old Paekche Fragments--Roy Andrew Miller
Symposium: Political Participation in Korea
- Political Participation in Traditional Korea, 18761910--James B. Palais
- Participatory Anti-Imperialism: The 1919 Independence Movement--Frank Baldwin
- Political Participation in Liberated Korea: Mobilization and Revolt in the Kyôngsang Provinces, 19451950--Bruce Comings
- Sociocultural Aspects of Political Participation in Rural Korea- Vincent S. R. Brandt
Book Reviews
- Yong-ha Shin, Tongnip hyôphoe yôn'gu: Tongnip sinmun, tongnip hyôphoe, manmin kongdong-hoe in sasang kwa undong--reviewed by Vipin Chandra
- Sungjoo Han, The Failure of Democracy in South Korea; Selig S. Harrison, The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy; Michael Keon, Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes; Joungwon Alexander Kim, Divided Korea: The Politics of Development, 19451972--reviewed by Bruce Cumings
Articles
- South Korean Political Culture: An Interpretation of Survey Data--L. L. Wade
- The Place of the Almanac in Korean Folk Religion--Griffin Dix
- NeoConfucianism: The Impulse for Social Action in Early Yi Korea--Martina Deuchler
- The Local Gentry Association in MidYi Dynasty Korea: A Preliminary Study of the Ch'angnyông Hyangan, 16001839--Fujiya Kawashima
- The Chejudo Rebellion--John Merrill
Review Article
- Han Yôngu's Studies of Early Chosôn Intellectual History--James B. Palais
Book Reviews
- Mabuchi Kazuo, Hong Saman, Yi Inyông, and Ôhashi Yasuko, "Sangaku shiki kisai no Kudara chimei yori mita kodai Kudarago no kôsatsu"--reviewed by Roy Andrew Miller
- Sandra Mattielli, ed., Virtues in Conflict: Tradition and the Korean Woman Today--reviewed by Vipan Chandra
Articles
- Chông Tasan's Philosophy of Man: A Radical Critique of the NeoConfucian World View--Michael C. Kalton
- KoreanJapanese Politics behind the KaboÛlmi Reform Movement, 1894 to 1896--Young I. Lew
- Marketing and Social Structure among the Peasantry of the Yôngsô Region of South Korea--Clark Sorensen
- Wood Imps, Ghosts, and Other Noxious Influences: The Ideology of Affliction in a Korean Village--Laurel Kendall
- Local Elites, Power Structure, and Legislative Process in Korea--Young Whan Kihl
Book Reviews
- Nikita Khrushchev, Khruschchev Remembers, vol. 1; The Last Testament, vol. 2, Strobe Talbott, ed. and trans.--reviewed by John Merrill
- Yi Sôngmu, Chosôn cho'gi yangban yôn'gu; Kwâgo, Yôksa hakhoe, ed.--reviewed by James B. Palais
- Lee Kwangrin, Han'guk kaehwa sasang yôn'gu--reviewed by Vipan Chandra
- Edwin S. Mills and ByungNak Song, Urbanization and Urban Problems--reviewed by James W. White
- Song Bangsong, Han'guk ûmakhak nonjô haeje--reviewed by Robert C. Provine
Articles
- P'yonnyôn T'ongnok: The Foundation Legend of the Koryo State--Michael C. Rogers
- Land Tenure in Korea: Tenth to Twelfth Centuries--James B. Palais
- Jesuit Science through Korean Eyes--Donald L. Baker
- Ideological Schism in the Korean Nationalist Movement, 19201930; Cultural Nationalism and the Radical Critique--Michael Robinson
- Corporatism in North Korea--Bruce Cumings
Review Article
- Korean Economy in Transition--Tony Michell
Book Review
- The VirtueLaw Dichotomy in Yi Korea: Consonance or Dissonance?-- reviewed by Vipan Chandra
Articles
- A Study of the Hyangan: Kin Groups and Aristocratic Localism in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Korean Countryside--Fujiya Kawashima
- Confucian Rhetoric and Ritual as Techniques of Political Dominance: Yôngjo's Use of the Royal Lecture--Jahyun Kim Haboush
- Yüan Shih-k'ai's Residency and the Korean Enlightenment Movement, 1885-94--Young Ick Lew
Review Articles
- Korean and Altaic--Roy Andrew Miller
- Slavery and Slave Society in the Koryô Period--James B. Palais
Book Reviews
- Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim Janelli, Ancestor Worship and Korean Society--Laurel Kendall
- Bruce Cumings, ed., Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship, 1943-1953--reviewed by Peter Lowe
- Quee-Young Kim, The Fall of Syngman Rhee--reviewed by Vipan Chandra
Articles
- Twelfth-Century Koryô Politics: The Rise of Han Anin and His Partisans--Edward J. Schultz
- The Social Background to the Founding of the Chosôn Dynasty: Change or Continuity?--John Duncan
- Confucianism and War: The Korean Security Crisis of 1598--Gari Ledyard
- "Heaven Does Not Discriminate": A Study of Secondary Sons in Chosôn Korea--Martina Deuchler
- Interest Rates and Rationality: Rotating Credit Associations among Seoul Women--Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim
- Conflict and Harmony in Korean Rural Communities--Kwang Kyu Lee
- The Meanings and Significance of So Wôl's "Azaleas"--David R. McCann
Book Reviews
- Norman Jacobs, The Korean Road to Modernization and Development--reviewed by Larry Burmeister
- KeyHiuck Kim, The Last Phase of the East Asia World Order: Korea, Japan, and the Chinese Empire, 1860-1882; Martina Deuchler, Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885--reviewed by Vipan Chandra
- Karl Moskowitz, ed., From Patron to Partner: The Development of Korean Business and Trade Relations--reviewed by P. W. Kuznets
Articles
- Defensive Struggles or ForwardLooking Efforts? Tenancy Disputes in Colonial Korea--Gi-Wook Shin
- Land Tenure and Class Relations in Colonial Korea--Clark W. Sorensen
- The First Generation of Korean Skilled Workers: The Onoda Cement Sûnghori Factory--Soon Won Park
- T'oegye's Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning: A Korean View of the Essence of Chu Hsi's Teaching--Michael C. Kalton
- The South Korean Bourgeoisie: A Class in Search of Hegemony--Carter J. Eckert
- The Conservative Character of the 1894 Tonghak Peasant Uprising: A Reappraisal with Emphasis on Chôn Pongjun's Background and Motivation--Young-Ick Lew
Book Reviews
- Alice H. Amsden, Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization--reviewed by Stephan Haggard
- Michael E. Robinson, Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 19201925--reviewed by Kenneth Wells
- Larry L. Burmeister, Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea: The State and the Green Revolution--reviewed by Eun Mee Kim
- YurBok Lee, West Goes East: Paul Georg Von Möllendorff and Great Power Imperialism in Late Yi Korea--reviewed by Vipan Chandra
- Clark W. Sorensen, Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptationi to Rapid Industrialization--reviewed by Laurel Kendall
- Seok Choong Song, Explorations in Korean Syntax and Semantics--reviewed by Roy Andrew Miller
Articles
Book Reviews
- Carter J. Eckert, Kibaik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson, and Edward W. Wagner, Korea Old and New: A History--reviewed by Chung-Shin Park
- Robert E. Buswell, Jr., The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The VajrasamadhiSutra, A Buddhist Apocryphon; James Huntley Grayson, Korea: A Religious History--reviewed by Don Baker
- Kenneth M. Wells, New God, New Nation: Protestants and SelfReconstruction Nationalism in Korea, 18961937--reviewed bny Donald N. Clark
- William J. Taylor, Jr., Young Kao Cha, and John G. Blodgett, eds., The Korean Peninsula: Prospects for Arms Reduction under Global Détente--reviewed by Young Whan Kihl
- John Chay, Diplomacy of Asymmetry: KoreanAmerican Relations to 1910--reviewed by Vipan Chandra
- Ahn Junghyo, Silver Stallion--reviewed by Bruce Fulton
- Marshall R. Pihl, trans., The Good People: Korean Stories by Oh Yongsu--reviewed by Bruce Fulton
- JungEn Woo, Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization--reviewed by P.W. Kuznets
- Yun Heunggil, The House of Twilight--reviewed by Marshall R. Pihl
- William Shaw, ed., Human Rights in Korea: Historical Perspectives--reviewed by John O. Haley
- Carler J. Eckert, Offspring of Empire: The Kochang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 18761945--reviewed by Michael Robinson