Monday Salon @ The Korea Society: A Trio of Writers
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The Korea Society and KoreanAmericanStory.org co-host a literary conversation and reception with three accomplished Korean-American writers: Catherine Chung, Eugenia Kim, and Yuliana Kim-Grant. These authors have written deeply personal and moving novels about loss, hope, and heritage and will share both their stories, as well as their characters’, with readings from their books. Each of these debut novels garnered critical acclaim:
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A Drop of Chinese Blood Release with James Church
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James Church’s Inspector O novels have been hailed as “crackling good” (The Washington Post) and “tremendously clever” (Tampa Tribune), with Church himself embraced by critics as “the equal of le Carre” (Publishers Weekly). Now Church—a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way no one else can—comes roaring back with a new series featuring Inspector O’s nephew, Bing, the director of state security in a region in northeast China bordering North Korea.
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The New Asian City
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The Korea Society and the Van Alen Institute present a panel discussion on The New Asian City: Three Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form, a history of urban development in Asia. Drawing on a wide range of literature, film, and policy, Professor Jini Kim Watson reveals how the hyper-urbanization of the Pacific Rim reflects the psychic and political dramas of its colonized past and globalized present. Author Jini Kim Watson (NYU), Andrei Harwell (Yale School of Architecture), Samuel Jamier (Japan Society’s film curator), and Jinhee Park and John Hong (both of the Harvard Graduate School of Design) will discuss how culture, politics, and history influence the rapidly changing urban environments of East Asian metropolises.The discussion will be organized by the five themes identified in Jinhee Park’s and John Hong’s upcoming book, Convergent Flux.
Black Flower Release with Young-ha Kim
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Join literary lion Young-ha Kim as he discusses the release of Black Flower. This powerful drama creates fiction from a little-known historical moment when a thousand Koreans flee war and the loss of their nation before colonial annexation. The travelers endure harsh seas for the promise of land in Mexico, but soon discover they’ve been sold into indentured servitude.
Hearts of Pine
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In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system—those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military—lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Joshua Pilzer’s Hearts of Pine provides a window into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of ten years, the author worked with these elderly women: smoking with them, eating with them, singing and playing with them, and trying to understand and document their worlds of song.
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