Abstracts of the 1999 AAS Annual Meeting
March 11-14, 1999, Boston, MA

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KOREA

Session 34. Intellectuals, the State, and Korean Nationhood

• New Conceptualizations of the State in Korea, 1894–1910, Kyung Moon Hwang
• Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial Korea: The Formation of Civil Rule (bunka seiji), 1910–1925, Christine Gross-Loh
• Culture Wars and Contested Meanings during the First Republic of Korea, Michael Kim

Session 53. Postcolonialism and Identity in Contemporary Korean Visual Culture

• Postcolonial Indigestion: Food and Drink in Contemporary Korean Art, Robert J. Fouser
• "It’s All Image": Contemporary Korean Photography and Video Art, Joan Kee
• Could Home be Where the Heart Is?, Kyung Hyun Kim
• The Task of Translational Architecture, Miwon Kwon

Session 93. Military in Choson Korea: Issues of State, Society, and Culture

• A Transformation of the Military Elite: Military Examination Passers of Early Choson Korea, Eugene Y. Park
• Portrait of the Muin in Late Choson Novels, Kyung Hwan Choi
• Korean Intellectuals’ Thoughts on National Self-Defense in the Late 19th Century, Chin-Oh Chu

Session 112. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Korea

• Constructions of Cultural Identity in Choson Korea, Marion Eggert
• The Shamanic Vision-Quest Motif and the Acquisition of Knowledge in the Buddhist Traditions of Silla, Richard D. McBride II
• Visual Culture as National Culture: The Shifting Imagery of Korean Advertisements, James P. Thomas
• Risk Society as a System Failure: Sociological Analysis of Accidents in Korea, Jaeyeol Yee
• Political Economy of Korean Crisis: A Turning Point or End of Miracle?, You-ll Lee

Session 130. Korea Under the American Military Government, 1945–1948

• The Coming of the Cold War to Korea and Interactions of Domestic and International Forces, William W. Stueck
• Bunce and Jacobs: U.S. Occupation Advisors in Korea, 1946–1947, James I. Matray
• Campaign for Coalition Government: Efforts of Moderate Right and Moderate Left, Bonnie B. C. Oh and Sang Sook Jeon

Session 148. Aspects of Religious Social Thought in Colonial Korea

• Doctrinal Origins and Social Ends in Early 20th-Century Korean Protestantism, Kenneth M. Wells
• The YMCA’s Rural Revitalization Movement in Colonial Korea, 1925–1935: Doctrine and Objectives, Koen De Ceuster
• Religion, Class, and Social Movement under Colonialism: On the Disputes on Religion Between Ch’ondogyo and Socialists, Myoung-Kyu Park
• Reformed Buddhism: Redefining the Way in Colonial Korea, Boudewijn Walraven

Session 203. The Nature of Korean Art: Foreign Influences and Indigenous Development

• Sokkuram and Hyech’o’s Trip to India, Junghee Lee
• Modern Institutional Change and Its Impact on Art Production During the Reigns of King Kojong and King Sunjong (1864–1910), Hyung-min Chung
• Yi In-song’s "Local Colors": Promotion of Nationalism or Colonialism?, Youngna Kim

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