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The International Convention of Asia Scholars has published its list for the 2017 annual book prize. Among the 15 titles in the humanities section are monographs by Professor Brian Bernards, Professor Sunyoung Park, and Professor Satoko Shimazaki.

The 30 books in the combined disciplines of humanities and social sciences were selected from 330 titles. Congratulations to Brian, Sunyoung, and Satoko on this remarkable achievement!

EALC is happy to report that the book publications by Professor Satoko Shimazaki and Professor Brian Bernards have been chosen as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 by Choice Review, a publishing branch of the Association of College & Research Libraries and the American Library Association. The recipients are part of a prestigious group drawn from some 7,000 works reviewed each year.

http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/outstanding

Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost http://choicereviews.org/review/10.5860/CHOICE.198684

Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature http://choicereviews.org/review/10.5860/CHOICE.197181

Please join us in congratulating Professor Shimazaki and Professor Bernards on these remarkable achievements!

Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene with differing agendas as well as shared demands for equality and social justice. In The Proletarian Wave, Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture by focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. The book combines a general overview of the literary left with the intellectual portraits of four writers whose works exemplify the stylistic range and colonial inflection of socialist culture in a rapidly modernizing Korea. Bridging Marxist theory and postcolonial studies, Park confronts Western preconceptions about third-world socialist cultures while interrogating modern cultural history from a post-Cold War global perspective.