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  • Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

    Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

    by Hyaeweol Choi ...
    Hyaeweol Choi examines the formation of modern gender relations in Korea from a transnational perspective. Diverging from a conventional understanding of 'secularization' as a defining feature of modernity, Choi argues that Protestant Christianity, introduced to Korea in the late nineteenth century, was crucial in shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices and claiming new space ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • New Women in Colonial Korea

    A Sourcebook

    by Hyaeweol Choi ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book provides the first English translation of some of the central archival material concerning the development of New Woman (sin yŏsŏng) in Korea during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. It includes selected writings of both women and men who put forward their views on some of the key issues of new womanhood, including gender equality, chastity, divorce ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Gender in Modern East Asia

    by Barbara Molony, Janet Theiss, Hyaeweol Choi ...
    Gender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional contexts. Its transnational and integrated approach connects the cultural, economic, and social developments in East Asia to what is ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

    by Dr. Dafna Zur, Gregg Brazinsky, United through Separation Hyaeweol Choi, John Song Pae Cho, Jungwon Kim, Suzy Kim ...
    Series series Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
    This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources—including memoirs, diplomatic letters, newspapers, films, video diaries, photographs, and ethnographic interviews—the volume examines how emotions intervene in public discourse and how affect is shaped, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

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  • No Enemies, No Hatred

    Selected Essays and Poems

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  • China

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    Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945

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  • Maoism at the Grassroots

    Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism

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