Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the largest population of adult transnational adoptees in the United States. Over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted into primarily white US families since the 1950s, and despite being raised as US citiz…

Learn more about the books (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773365/the-color-of-desire/https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765155/pink-triangle-legacies/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/_EFsZxQPv5zbCURy-99A4uFVSQY?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we brought together tw…

Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local practices and traditions. It traces especially how the musical has been indigenized in South Korea and Germany, the commercial centers for Broadway musicals in East Asia and contine…

Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773808/a-slow-reckoning/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/_ZDbUEgeMZgs_eaXLmNJzs8oWVI?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Vasilly Klimentov, author of the new book, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communist…

“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for North Korea is to say that North Koreans are not part of the human community.” In her new book, Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (Columbia University Press, 20…

Download the FREE ebook:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772634/the-nature-study-idea/You can also save 30% off the print edition with promo code 09PODRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/xWNbdn02Wq4saEqPlItdUJd-LnM?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with John Linstrom, editor of the definitive new edition of Liberty Hyd…

Dr. Andy Jackson’s The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) examines an unexplored area of South Korean cinema history – the 1985-1997 growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia. This moment of heightened interest in art film altered how many Koreans conceptualis…

The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within famil…

Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773068/unraveling-the-gray-area-problemRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/Ckmr71FCYKFkd5oDyV0oR2AV0v8?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Luke Griffith, author of the new book Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The …

Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants are seen to present problems, as today’s crises show the world over. But as Alyssa Park’s book Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2019) show…

Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male empire-building. Although many feminist critics have articulated women's active roles as dutiful collaborators for the Japanese empire, male-dominated …

In August, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to complain about how U.S. regulations are holding local sunscreens back compared to the rest of the world. And while she didn’t name any specific country, the video featured headlines that did name one nation: South Korea. On social media, Korean cosmetics are now viewed as the wor…

Learn more about the book (and use promo code 09POD to save 30% off):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772924/the-commander-in-chief-test/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/docHKI5gdBYX9FRBeKMaarObkes?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Jeffrey Friedman, author of the new book The Commander-in-Chief Test: Public Opi…

Migration is a theme intertwined with hopes and dreams. In Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke UP, 2023), June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea s…

Read the book (use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772320/faith-made-flesh/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/EQUorUn0cr-GH9JMXYTaJ-G_2Po?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with editors Vajra Watson and Kindra Montgomery-Block, as well as contributor Patrice Hill, all of whom worked toget…

Learn about the new book here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771750/the-muriel-rukeyser-era/#bookTabs=1Read the transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/XqLGFhSLcHCvbI8HZPT3omPq7w8?utm_source=copy_urlEric Keenaghan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University at A…

Learn more about The Black Woods here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771682/the-black-woods/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/bMcnVOvsG9riaiRRXpVI4fgaWf8?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Amy Godine, author of the new book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the …

Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popular image of the international student in the American imagination, an image of affluence, access, and privilege. In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim argues that universitie…

Learn more about the book:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766657/the-made-up-state/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/O18-V2EdVKo5Rz5eblyrDU9DTM0?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. Benjamin Hegarty is McKenz…

From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. From Asia to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with new i…

Sae, former journalist turned a young mother of two in 1992 Seoul, is waiting for her husband, an engineer for a small construction company. He’s late. A neighbor rushes down with the news: a high-rise downtown has collapsed, trapping hundreds inside–the same high-rise that Sae’s husband is working. That disaster, which parallels the real-life Samp…

Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501772177/russian-liberalismRead the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/110CsGZ7M5iRsUm0ZhIMJ3FgzS8?utm_source=copy_urlPaul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Ottawa. He is the …

“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In her book, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War (Temple UP, 2022), Joo Ok Kim “conceptualizes racialized formations of kinship emerging from the Korean War as a problem of knowledge” (…

Before South Korea became the democracy and media powerhouse that it is today, it underwent several decades of authoritarian rule during the Cold War from the late 1940s to late 1980s. Amidst this authoritarian period, South Korea’s filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors nevertheless found ways to push the boundaries of both cinema and politics. …

Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771262Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/4zNwG4JyGYaMp0rhGC0XMtwN-xM?utm_source=copy_urlScott Meiners is Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. His research interests generally revolve around factors that infl…

Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …

In Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2023), Suzy Kim follows Korean women’s engagement in a broader international women’s movement from the beginnings of the Korean War in the 1940s until International Women’s Year in 1975. Obscured by layers of “cascading erasures,” the communist women of Nort…

K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (Routledge, 2022) is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, choreography, and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York, California, and Seoul, the book …

Learn more about the hotel workers' strike:https://www.unitehere11.org/2023-contract-fight/Learn more about Joan Tronto:https://cla.umn.edu/polisci/news-events/news/professor-emerita-joan-tronto-receives-benjamin-e-lippincott-award-apsaLearn more about Who Cares?:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501702747/who-cares/#bookTabs=1Read the …

Today I talked to Don J. Wyatt about his book Slavery in East Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022). In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to …

An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist soc…

Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe—these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China’s Northeast—but a contested frontier in the first half of the twentieth century—Manchuria has inspired writers from all over East Asia to claim it as their own, e…

The Korean War “ended” exactly fifty years ago at Panmunjom. On July 27, 1953, United States and United Nations commanders on one side, and the North Koreans and Chinese commanders on the other, agreed to an immediate cessation of hostilities. Most histories of the Korean War stop there. Yet the war merely ended in a truce, not a proper peace agree…

Dr. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars in her new book The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Harvard University Press, 2023). In the nineteenth century, Russ…

Learn more about the book (and save 30% with promo code 09POD)https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768484/everyday-war/Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/8-ilVukZxmGKUwp2zhqWkg77sCA?utm_source=copy_urlDr. Greta Uehling is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, and is the author of a previous book Beyond Memory. Her new book seeks…

As a member of the U.S. National Security Council, Victor Cha flew over the DMZ separating North and South Korea in 2007, following negotiations with Pyongyang. He writes in Korea: A New History of South and North (Yale University Press, 2023)—his latest book with co-author, and previous podcast guest, Ramon Pacheco Pardo—about how he was struck by…

Learn about the book:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501770753Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/bxA9mDpa8yE0XM1g_j9ZSgFqOA0?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Asaf Darr, author of the new book Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace. Asaf Darr is Professor of Sociology…

In Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars (Applause Books, 2023), scholar Suk-Young Kim reflects on Netflix's most-viewed series and one of the most influential Korean dramas, Squid Game. The series premiered in September 2021, when the pandemic cloud still hung heavy over viewers and seemed to mirror the socie…

Download the free OA ebook:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769023/ecological-states/#bookTabs=1Read the transcript:https://otter.ai/u/60p3mmvvIkX1AwQjq7F6O2_eoR4?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Jesse Rodenbiker, author of the new book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China. It’s avai…

Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Judgment and Mercy:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768521/judgment-and-mercy/#bookTabs=1Read the transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/uUDuXKCSNuQrwHnYzofXBg5k9RE?utm_source=copy_urlIn this episode, we speak with Martin Siegel, author of Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge …

The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage before World War II. Following the Russo-Japanese War, the United States cultivated an amicable relationship with Japan based on the…

Monica Macias, the youngest daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s first president at just seven years old, lands in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1979. Her father had sent her to the country to study, but what was meant to be a shorter visit grew to a decade-long stay when her father was ousted in a coup. Monica stays in Pyongyang until 1994, when she gradua…

Welcome to the fourth NIAS-Korea episode. We invite Dr. Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein to discuss Sweden-North Korea relations. It may seem odd that among the Western countries, Sweden is the one that has maintained friendlier relations with North Korea. For example, Sweden was the first Western country that opened an embassy in Pyongyang, and the em…

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Learn about Boas of the West Indies:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765452/boas-of-the-west-indies/#bookTabs=1Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/3JA4ImNEDi8KJNpbLofa90KHtY0?utm_source=copy_urlThis episode, we speak with Graham Reynolds, co-author of the new book Boas of the West Indies: Evolution, Natural History, and Conservation.…

Learn more about the book (Use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768118/nature-on-the-doorstep/#bookTabs=0Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/1GGhMmvlb95p6aEODStvAwq8s90?utm_source=copy_urlThis episode, we speak with Angela Douglas, author of the new book Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters.Angela …

Learn more about the book (Use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501768590/in-this-togetherTranscript here: https://otter.ai/u/NE0mW8pfBmG2iuwGJcNgOwQCf_4?utm_source=copy_urlThis episode, we speak with MARIANNE KRASNY, author of In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis n…

The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire (Bloomsbury, 2022) traces reiterations and reinterpretations of the deity Susanoo regarding his relationship with Korea vis-a-vis Japan. Through careful examination of mythological texts and other primary sources, David Weiss examines Susanoo’s role in the constru…

Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/Jgjrr40fuvOzIkEf9LKIvjHbqy4?utm_source=copy_urlWelcome to the third episode of Authors in Conversation, the new podcast from the series editors of CUP's United States in the World series. This episode features University of California, Irvine professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (author of Radicals on the Road) speaking wi…

Especially within the last decade, the word "nationalism" often evokes images of bombastic demagogues and democratic backsliding. But does nationalism always hurt liberal democracy? In Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell UP, 2022), Aram Hur argues that the answer might be "no". Instead, under specific cir…