East Asia

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Hajin Jun
Assistant Professor
James B. Palais Professor of Korean History
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies
Mark Metzler
Professor
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies

Latest News

Professor Hwasook Nam publishes new book Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea (October 25, 2021)
New History Dissertations Completed in 2013-2014 (May 20, 2014)

Related Research

Ting-chieh Ou Yang,"The Real Reason for How Taiwan Became Chinese," Research Section of UW Taiwan Studies, 2025 July
Lin, James. In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. University of California Press, 2025.
Bui, Alvin Khiem. "Twice Exiled the Ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of China (1955-Present)." PhD diss. University of Washington, 2024.
The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (with Thijs Weststeijn), Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024
“Nostalgia for Japanese Colonialism: Historical Memory and Postcolonialism in Contemporary Taiwan.” History Compass 20, no. 11 (2022): e12751. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12751
“Martyrs of Development: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and the Republic of Vietnam, 1959–1975.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (e-journal) 33: 53–83. https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-33/lin.
“Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Agricultural Development in the US, Taiwan, and the World, 1949-1975,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) 9 (June 2015): 127-149. https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-2872116.
Warner, Catherine. Shifting States: Mobile Subjects, Markets, and Sovereignty in the India-Nepal Borderland, 1780-1930. Diss. University of Washington, 2014. Chair: Anand Yang.
Ebrey, Patricia. Emperor Huizong. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Print.
Hyun, Jeong Won. Gift Exchange among States in East Asia during the Eleventh Century. Diss. University of Washington, 2013. Chair: Patricia Ebrey.