The spring 2022 issue comprises four articles and four book reviews. Drawing on multiple disciplinary trajectories, the four articles explore topics related to ritual performance, historical memory, narrative formation, and neoliberal transformation. The first article, by Seunghyun Han, introduces understudied topic related to the mangbaerye ritual in late Chosŏn Korea. Han situates this ritual performance in the broader power dynamics between Ming loyalists and royal authority in the Chosŏn court. The next two articles cover colonial Korea. By utilizing photographs and photo postcards, Jooyeon Rhee examines kisaeng’s visual representations, demonstrating how images of kisaeng have been a contentious site of historical memory of Japanese colonialism. Through the literary analysis of Kim Namch’ŏn’s Barley, John Park examines how the aesthetic significance of buildings shapes the narrative movement in colonial Korea. The final article, by Seung-kyung Kim and John Finch, explores one of the hot topics in contemporary South Korea:...
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