Kim and essays by a junior high, senior high school, and university instructor on how they have used Lost Names as a highly effective teaching tool. In the pages that follow, we feature an interview by EAA editorial board member Kathy Masalski with Richard E. all the characters and events described in the book are real, but everything else is fiction.” Never in my time in Asian Studies has one work been so applicable to such a wide range of students as is the case with Lost Names. Although Lost Names is technically a novel, according to author Richard Kim, “. Lost Names is the story, as recounted by a young boy, of one Korean family’s experience during the war years. The book’s title reflects the Japanese Pacific War policy of forcing Koreans to replace their own names with Japanese ones. Lost Names is a useful, rare, and wonderful book for several reasons. Kim (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1998). Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Artsĭownload PDF By Richard E.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award.Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies.Cultivating the Humanities & Social Sciences Initiative Grants.

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Yet the embarrassing question Lee once asked of Shin remains as a parable of war and religious conscience: ''Is your God aware of the suffering of his people?'' No answer extant in Pyongyang-but a simply written, very powerful account of beleaguered human conscience makes its point beyond the limits of the 8th parallel.

Shin stays behind with his ''betrayed'' flock, and what's left of the army moves south. The memorial service is held the city evacuated, Mr. Shin lies, sacrificing his honor for the make of the surviving Christians. Which truth should be told, if any at all? Lee and Chang, both atheists, face a strange God in different ways, and Mr. Shin and a Red prisoner have a truth of their own, revealing the highly un-saintly capitulation of most of the to-be-martyred men. Colonel Chang, the Chief Intelligence Officer dabbles seriously in martyr manufacture: for the sake of anti-Communist propaganda he would have the city's tortured Christians believe heroic truths about the twelve deaths, but Mr. Shin, an old man with a strange conscience. Of fourteen Christian ministers imprisoned by the Communists, twelve were killed and two survived-one a young man gone mad, the other, Mr. South Korean Army Intelligence Officer Lee tells of the last weeks in the soon-to-be-abandoned North Korean capital of Pyongyang and tells therefore not of military, but of human action.

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