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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10621403

Jisoo M. Kim

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12747

Jisoo M. Kim

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Voluntary Outsiders in Their Anthropocentric Nation: Korean Vegan Youth Navigating between National Ruins and Transnational Mobilities 自愿外来者在他们的人类中心国家:韩国素食青年在国家废墟和跨国流动之间导航

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10213221

Su Young Choi

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Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea 国内外性别政治：殖民时代韩国的新教现代性

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10211205

Hayun Cho

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Coethnic, Multicultural, or Cosmopolitan? Cultural Citizenship, Enfranchisement, and the Contested Category of Korean-Chinese in Globalizing South Korea 共同的，多元文化的，还是世界主义的？文化公民权、强制执行权与韩国全球化中韩裔华人的竞争范畴

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10213234

Seung-mi Han

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Social (Im)mobility and Bureaucratic Failings: Family Background and the Sŏngbun System in North Korea 社会流动性和官僚主义的失败:朝鲜的家庭背景和Sŏngbun制度

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10213208

Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

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Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema by Christina Klein (review) 冷战世界主义：20世纪50年代韩国电影的时代风格

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10211214

Jeong Eun Annabel We

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Against the Chains of Utility: Antiutilitarian Sacrifice in Cho Sehŭi's A Little Ball Launched by the Dwarf 对抗效用链：赵的《小矮人发射的小球》中的反效用牺牲

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10213195

Serk-Bae Suh

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Defender of the Nation, Champion of Science: The Agency for Defense Development as a Nexus for the Technological Transformation of South Korea 国家的捍卫者，科学的捍卫者:国防发展局作为韩国技术转型的纽带

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10213182

Peter Banseok Kwon

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Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday by Ksenia Chizhova (review) 近代早期韩国亲属小说:在家谱时间与家庭日常之间克谢尼娅·奇若娃(书评)

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Journal of Korean Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/07311613-10213247

Hyunhee Park

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