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Dongyoun Hwang, PhD

Faculty - Full-Time

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Phone: 949-480-4031
Fax: 949-480-4264
Email: dhwang@soka.edu

Education
  • Ph.D., in History, Duke University
  • M.A., Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
  • B.A., Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Positions Held
  • At SUA since 2000
  • 1999 - 2000, Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian History, History Dept., Duke University
  • 1998 - 1999, Instructor History Dept., Duke University
  • 1991 - 1992, Instructor, Kyungwon College (South Korea)
Research Interests
  • Radicalism and Nationalism in Twentiehth Century Eastern Asia
  • The Guomindang Leftists in the 1920s
  • Wartime Collaboration in China during the Pacific War
Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures
  • “Korean Anarchism before 1945: A Regional and Transnational Approach” in Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution, edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
  • “Yi Jeonggyu: Toward a Realization of Transnational Korean Anarchism,” No. 93 (winter issue, December 2010), Critical Review of History or Yoksa Bipyong, pp. 198-230. (in Korean)
  • “Reflections on Radicalism in ‘Eastern Asia’: Regional Perspective, Transnational Approach, and ‘Eastern Asia’ as a Regional Concept,” Dongbang hakji (The Journal of Korean Studies), Vol. 145 (March 2009), pp. 273-319. (in Korean)
  • "Güney Kore'nin Minjung ve Minjung Hareketi (South Korea's Minjung and Minjung Movement)" in Y. Doğan Çetinkaya ed., Toplumsal Hareketler: Tarih, Teori ve Deneyim (Social Movements: History, Theory, Experiences) ( Istanbul: lletisim Yayinlari, 2008), pp. 337-363. (in Turkish).
  • "Zhou Fohai's Diary and the Problems of Collaboration in China during the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945," Cogito, vol. 62 (August 2007), pp. 181-215.* (in Korean)
  • "Beyond Independence: The Korean Anarchist Press in China and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s," Asian Studies Review, Vol. 31 (March, 2007), pp. 1-21.
  • Post modoniti ui yoksa dul, (a Korean Translation of Arif Dirlik's book, Postmodernity's Histories: The Past As Legacy and Project, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefiled, 2000) published by Changbi Publisher Co., Seoul, South Korea, October, 2005   
  • "Eastern Asia Radicalism in the Early Twentieth Century and the Idea of 'Asia,'"  Daedong Munhwan Yongu or Journal of Eastern Studies, Vol. 50 (special issue), Seoul, South Korea, June 2005
  • "Wartime Collaboration in Question: An Examination of the Postwar Trials of the Chinese Collaborators," Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, May, 2005
  •  "Some Reflections on Wartime Collaboration in China: Wang Jingwei and His Group in Hanoi,"  Working Papers in Asian/Pacific Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University, 1998
Courses Taught at SUA
  • Ideas of East and West
  • Modern China: Roots of Revolution
  • The Emergence of Modern Japan
  • Third World and the West
  • Introduction to the Pacific Basin
  • East Asia: A Historical Survey
  • History of East Asian-American Relations
  • Modern China in Literature and Film
  • Radicalism in Eastern Asia 
  • History of Sino-Japanese Relations
Selected Honors & Awards
  • Research Grant (with Professors Moon-Sang Chung, Byung-Soo Oh, Kyung-Ran Jo, and Jin-A Jung) on “A Critical Examination of Mutual Perceptions between Korea, China and Japan during the Cold War Era” from the Northeast Asian History Foundation (Korea), 2010
  • Field Research Fellowship, The Korea Foundation, 2008 
  • Research Travel Grant, NEAC, Association for Asian Studies, 2004
  • Janet B. Chiang Research Grant, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University,1998-99
  • Graduate Award for International Research, Center for International Studies, Duke University,1995-96
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