Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era

Contributors

221 Contributors Ellie Choi, an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, is an intellectual historian of modern Korea during the Japanese empire. Her dissertation (PhD, Harvard University, 2009), “Space and National Identity: Yi Kwangsu’s Vision of Korea during the Japanese Empire,” explored the relationships among space, history, and nationalist discourse as they relate to issues of multiple temporalities and ethnic national identity. Her book manuscript, organized around five key sites in the Japanese empire to which Yi traveled, complicates cultural nationalism within a multiethnic empire. Christopher P. Hanscom (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006) is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the UCLA. Author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea, a study of theories of language and modernist fiction in 1930s colonial Korea, his research interests include the relationship between social and aesthetic forms, comparative colonialism, and concepts of race and culture under Japanese empire. Mickey Hong is a professor and the director of the Korean Studies Program at Los Angeles City College, where she established California’s first associate degree in Korean language. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California , Los Angeles. Her dissertation is on 1930s Korean modernist poetry. Charles R. Kim is an assistant professor of Korean history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include narratives, nationalism, cultural practices, and public discourse in South Korea. His publications include “The April 19th Generation and the Start of Postcolonial History in South Korea” (Review of Korean Studies, September 2009) and “Moral Imperatives: South Korean Studenthood and April 19th” (Journal of Asian Studies, May 2012). Chiyoung Kim (PhD, Korea University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Korean Education at the Catholic University of Daegu. Her pub- 222 Contributors lications include Yŏnae ranŭn p’yosang: Hanguk kŭndae sosŏl ŭi hyŏngsŏng kwa sarang (The Representation of Love: Love and the Formation of the Modern Korean Novel, Somyŏng ch’ulp’an, 2007) and “Munhak kaenyŏm ch’egye ŭi kyebohak—sanmun punnyubŏp ŭi pyŏnhwa kwajŏng ŭl chungsim ŭro” (The Genealogy of the Literary Genre System—with a Focus on Prose Genre Classification, Minjok munhwa yŏngu [Korean Cultural Studies], 2009). Her research focuses on Korean conceptual history, particularly such concepts as literature, art and literature, humanities, love, and detective work. Jiyeon Kim is a research professor at the Bangudae Petroglyphs Institute and lecturer in the Department of History and Culture of Ulsan University , Korea. Her dissertation (University of California, 2009) is on commemorative paintings produced by chungin and other members of the marginal elite of late Chosŏn. Her research interests include art and social networks in the Chosŏn period, the politics of commemorative paintings, and the formation of artistic networks and identity in early twentieth-century Korea . Her article exploring how a late-Chosŏn court painter Kim Hongdo presented himself through the depiction of his residence was published in the 2012 issue of Archives of Asian Art. Sonja M. Kim received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently assistant professor of Asian and Asian American studies at Binghamton University (SUNY), where she teaches courses on Korean history and East Asia. She has published articles on health and medicine in Korea and is working on a book manuscript exploring medical knowledge and practices surrounding women’s health and childbearing in early twentieth-century Korea. Sophia J. Kim (1971–2008) graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and earned her master’s degree at Cornell University. She was a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in Korean history and cultural studies. For her dissertation prospectus titled “Nationalized Bodies: The Colonial Politics of Physical Education (1895– 1945),” she conducted extensive fieldwork in Japan and Korea in order to examine the convergence of discursive and material practices in both the colonial and nationalist education of the body. Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Arts of the Moving Image, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. Her research considers colonialism and post- Contributors 223 colonial legacies in the Asia-Pacific, focusing on Korea and Japan. Her book in progress, “Translating Empires...