- Soka University of America

Dongyoun Hwang, PhD

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