CONTENTS

Research Article

Andrea DE BENEDITTIS

Norm and Deviance: Some Considerations on Eroticism in Ancient Korea

Jihyeong LEE

Seeing Silla through Besila in The Kushnameh: On Literary Interventions in the Historiography of Transcultural Silla

In-Sung Kim HAN

Pointed Cusped Arch: Islamic Architectural Element of the Goryeo Dynasty

Trần Thị Phương Hoa and Cao Việt Anh

Vietnam-China Trade Relations under French Colonial Administration in Late Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

Kyohei SAGAWA

Toward a Full History of Coal Mining: Korean Miners in the Japanese Coal Industry, 1910s-1930s

Yujin LIM

A Regional Contextualization of the Transition to the Post-Cold War Era in East Asia

Book Review

Baihui DUAN

Book Review of The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea

E.J.R. CHO

Beyond Japanese Frames:

Reading Yuko Takahashi’s Korean Nuclear Diaspora

Jaik AHN

Book Review of The Crafting of the Postwar Peace Treaty with Japan,1945-1951

Conference Proceeding

 [International Conference in Honor of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Korea] 
Searching for New Perspectives on Contemporary History of Korea: Rethinking Decolonization, Military Occupations, and the Ideas for A Democratic Korea (August 4-5, 2025, Seoul)

Deokhyo CHOI

Decolonization as a “Nonevent”?: The Liberation of Korea and Its Impact on Japans

Toyomi ASANO

Between the Collapse of the Japanese Empire and Normalization with South Korea

Motokazu MATSUTANI

Formal Decolonization and Informal Reconnection: Korean and Japanese Christian Intellectuals in the Post-colonial Era

Hannah SHEPHERD

Intruder to the Patriarchal Alliance

Chaisung LIM

The Crisis of the Divided Economy and the Creation of a National Economy: Korea in the late 1940s

Fyodor TERTITSKI

1945: the Soviet Army's rule over North Korea and the coming of Kim Il-sung

Balázs SZALONTAI

Soviet Occupation Policies in North Korea, East Germany, and Austria: Similarities and Differences

Claudius (Kyung Yeob) KIM

Braiding Two Revolutions: Yan’an Group and Manchurian Koreans in the Chinese Revolution and the North Korean Revolutions, 1945-50

Barak KUSHNER

Victims of Victory: Power and Strategy in Postwar East Asia

Masaru TONOMURA

Why do Differences in Historical Perception Arise? The influence of strong mobilization in a weak empire

Jung-Ae PARK

The Dilemma of Acknowledging Victimhood and the Alienation from One’s Own Memory