Useful On-line Material
The UBC library subscribes to a digital book collection put together by the American Council of Learned Societies. Several books on modern Korean history are available on-line through the UBC library web site. (You have to access them either through a computer in the library or through a proxy server.) Look for the ACLS Humanities E-book Project. These books are not required reading. However, you may some material in one or two of them useful for your term papers.
The books currently available are:
Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn Dynasty. By Jahyun Kim Haboush A wonderful collection of translated documents, mostly letters. If you use this book, be sure to use only letters written after 1590.
Colonial Modernity by Gi-wook Shin
Confucian statecraft and Korean Institutions : Yu Hyongwon and the late Choson Dynasty by James B Palais,
Korea between empires, 1895-1919, by Andre Schmid
Cultural nationalism in colonial Korea, 1920-1925 by Michael E. Robinson
Offspring of empire: the Koch'ang Kims and the colonial origins of Korean capitalism, 1876-1945, by Carter J. Eckert.
The Japanese wartime empire, 1931-1945, by Peter Duus, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie
Korea’s Development Under Park Chung-hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979. By Kim Hyung-A
Reassessing the Park Chung Hee era, 1961-1979 by Kim Hyung-A and Clark Sorensen. (a useful collection of articles by different scholars).
Some journals you may want to check out for useful articles are:
International Journal of Korean History This English-language journal is available via the Korean Database (DPIA) you can access via the UBC library “indexes and databases” collection. Off campus, you need to establish a proxy connection or a VPN (vitual private network). Go to http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/proxyinfo/ for information on how to do that.
Review of Korean Studies
http://book.aks.ac.kr/sub02_6_1.asp?menu=2&smenu=6&s
also available through the UBC library.
Acta Koreana
It is available in print form in the UBC library. Issues since 0701/2005 are available electronically from the UBC library.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
http://sjeas.skku.edu/backissue/issue.jsp
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies
This Seoul National University English-language journal is available electronically through the DPbia data base accessible via the UBC library
Korean Studies
This University of Hawaii publication is available in print electronically via the UBC library. (Project Muse)
Journal of Korean Studies
This University of Washington publication is available in print and electronically via the UBC library. (Project Muse)
Korea Journal:
http://www.ekoreajournal.net/ (also available in the library in the print version)
You can also find some useful sites via:
the Virtual library for Korean Studies:
http://www.skas.org/ and click on online libraries.
And another web-guide to Korean Studies sites:
http://yuldo.net/
a guide to web pages on South Korea, see
http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-sk.html
One more interesting site is on Henrik Hamel’s Diary which provides an eyewitness account of life in 17th century Korea:
http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/index-1.htm
I will not accept citations from any encyclopedias, either print or on-line. You must dig deeper than an encyclopedia when you do research for your term paper. One good guide to academically respectable resources is found at
http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/biblio/BiblioOpen.html
Whichever sources you decide to use, be sure to let me know what they are before you start writing your paper so I can tell you whether they are trustworthy or not.
The books currently available are:
Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn Dynasty. By Jahyun Kim Haboush A wonderful collection of translated documents, mostly letters. If you use this book, be sure to use only letters written after 1590.
Colonial Modernity by Gi-wook Shin
Confucian statecraft and Korean Institutions : Yu Hyongwon and the late Choson Dynasty by James B Palais,
Korea between empires, 1895-1919, by Andre Schmid
Cultural nationalism in colonial Korea, 1920-1925 by Michael E. Robinson
Offspring of empire: the Koch'ang Kims and the colonial origins of Korean capitalism, 1876-1945, by Carter J. Eckert.
The Japanese wartime empire, 1931-1945, by Peter Duus, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie
Korea’s Development Under Park Chung-hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979. By Kim Hyung-A
Reassessing the Park Chung Hee era, 1961-1979 by Kim Hyung-A and Clark Sorensen. (a useful collection of articles by different scholars).
Some journals you may want to check out for useful articles are:
International Journal of Korean History This English-language journal is available via the Korean Database (DPIA) you can access via the UBC library “indexes and databases” collection. Off campus, you need to establish a proxy connection or a VPN (vitual private network). Go to http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/proxyinfo/ for information on how to do that.
Review of Korean Studies
http://book.aks.ac.kr/sub02_6_1.asp?menu=2&smenu=6&s
also available through the UBC library.
Acta Koreana
It is available in print form in the UBC library. Issues since 0701/2005 are available electronically from the UBC library.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
http://sjeas.skku.edu/backissue/issue.jsp
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies
This Seoul National University English-language journal is available electronically through the DPbia data base accessible via the UBC library
Korean Studies
This University of Hawaii publication is available in print electronically via the UBC library. (Project Muse)
Journal of Korean Studies
This University of Washington publication is available in print and electronically via the UBC library. (Project Muse)
Korea Journal:
http://www.ekoreajournal.net/ (also available in the library in the print version)
You can also find some useful sites via:
the Virtual library for Korean Studies:
http://www.skas.org/ and click on online libraries.
And another web-guide to Korean Studies sites:
http://yuldo.net/
a guide to web pages on South Korea, see
http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-sk.html
One more interesting site is on Henrik Hamel’s Diary which provides an eyewitness account of life in 17th century Korea:
http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/index-1.htm
I will not accept citations from any encyclopedias, either print or on-line. You must dig deeper than an encyclopedia when you do research for your term paper. One good guide to academically respectable resources is found at
http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/biblio/BiblioOpen.html
Whichever sources you decide to use, be sure to let me know what they are before you start writing your paper so I can tell you whether they are trustworthy or not.