By Colin Marshall “Tayo the Little Bus is a steaming pile of garbage,” a friend of mine recently posted to …
One of Korea’s Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus
March 2016
Getting Up to Speed on the Cultural Revolution — A First Set of Suggestions
By Jeff Wasserstrom This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start and the 40th anniversary of the end of …
“Moss”: a Star Korean Comic Artist’s Suspenseful Tale Brought into English by Literary Translators and Serialized Free Online
By Colin Marshall A young man from the city drives out to the countryside, ostensibly to set in order the …
Finding Home in an Arabic Class in Israel
By Joanna Chen I’m sitting in my studio at The Virginia Center for The Creative Arts in Amherst, writing about …
The Unbearable Preposterousness of Westernization: Park Kwang-su’s “Chil-su and Man-su” (1988)
By Colin Marshall This is one in a series of essays on important pieces of Korean cinema freely available on …
“Wallpaper: The Shanghai Collection” — A Q&A with James Bollen
By Anne Witchard The title of James H. Bollen’s new book — Wallpaper: The Shanghai Collection — makes an ironic gesture …
Reading Calvin and Hobbes in Korea
By Colin Marshall The Sunday funny pages may now seem, even by current print standards, like the blandest, most marginal …
Walking Deep Into Seoul With an Expert on the Korean Built Environment
By Colin Marshall “Things in Seoul don’t have anything to do with each other.” We members of the Royal Asiatic …
‘The Empire of Light’: a French Director Brings a North Korean Spy Novel to the Stage
By Colin Marshall Ki-yong, the middle-aged protagonist of Kim Young-ha’s Your Republic Is Calling You, lives at the apparent height …
The New Life in English of an Old Eileen Chang Novel
By Susan Blumberg-Kason Eileen Chang’s fiction mirrored her life. Shanghai comes alive in her pages, from the political turmoil in …
