Korean History: A Bibliography
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Korean Communities Abroad:
North America and the Pacific Islands

Arinaga, Esther K. "Contributions of Korean Immigrant Women." In Nancy Foon Young and Judy R. Parrish, eds. Montage: An Ethnic History of Women in Hawaii. Honolulu: General Assistance Center for the Pacific College of Educational Foundations, University of Hawaii, 1977.

Barringer, Herbert A. and Sung-Nam Cho. Koreans in the United States: A Fact Book. Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, 1989.

Berwick, Stephen W.F. "From Ch'ongnyangni to Northfield: The Story of a Korean Immigrant to America." Korean Culture 12:1 (Spring 1991): 34-38.

Chai, Alice Y. "The Life History of an Early Korean Immigrant Woman in Hawaii." University of Hawaii Women's Studies Program Working Papers Series 1 (1978): 50-59.

Chai, Alice Y. "A Picture Bride from Korea: The Life History of a Korean American Woman in Hawaii." Bridge: An Asian-American Perspective 6 (Winter 1978): 37-42.

Chai, Alice Y. "Korean Women in Hawaii, 1903-1945: The Role of Methodism in Their Liberation and in Their Participation in the Korean Independence Movement." In Hilah F. Thomas and Rosemary Skinner Keller, eds. Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan Tradition, volume 1. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1981.

Chai, Alice Y. "Korean Women in Hawaii, 1903-1945." In Nobuya Tsuchida, ed. Asian and Pacific American Experiences: Women's Perspectives. Minneapolis: Asian/Pacific American Learning Resource Center, 1982.

Chai, Alice Y. "Feminist Analysis of Life Histories of Hawaii's Early Asian Immigrant Women." Asian Journal of Women's Studies 2 (1996): 38-69.

Chang, Edward Taehan. “Korean Kaleidoscope: An Overview of Korean Immigration to the US.” Korean and Korean American Studies Bulletin 11:2 (2000): 5-20.

Chang, Roberta W.S., with Wayne Patterson. The Koreans in Hawai‘i: A Pictorial History, 1903-2003. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003.

Charr, Easurk Emsen. The Golden Mountain. Boston: Forum Pub. Co., 1961.

Charr, Easurk Emsen. The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant 1895-1960. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Che, Sunny. Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, 2000.

Che, Sunny. Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2000.

Chin, Soo-Young. Doing What Had To Be Done: The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

Ch'oe, Yong-ho. "The Early Korean Immigrants to Hawaii: A Background History." In Myongsup Shin and Daniel B. Lee, eds. Korean Immigrants in Hawaii: A Symposium on Their Background History, Acculturation and Public Policy Issues. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1978.

Chong, Key R. and Myong Gul Son. “Trials and Triumphs: History of Korean United Methodist Churches.” In Artemio R. Guillermo, ed. Churches Aflame: Asian Americans and United Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Choy, Bong-Youn. Koreans in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1979.

Choy, Bong-Youn. "The History of Koreans in America, Part I: Leaving the Land of the Morning Calm." Korean Culture 3:2 (July 1982): 34-45.

Choy, Bong-Youn. "The History of Koreans in America, Part II: The Korean Contribution to America." Korean Culture 3:3 (September 1983): 12-19.

Choy, Bong-Youn. "The History of Early Koreans in America, 1883-1941." In Seong Hyong Lee and Tae-Hwan Kwak, eds. Koreans in North America: New Perspectives. Seoul: Kyungnam University Press, 1988.

Choy, Peggy Myo Young. “Anatomy of a Dancer: Place, Lineage and Liberation.” Amerasia Journal 26:2 (2000): 234-252.

Denfield, D. Colt. "Korean Laborers in Micronesia During World War II." Korea Observer 15:1 (Spring 1984): 3-15.

Fahs, Robert. “A Diamond Head View of the OSS in Interagency Competition to Recruit the Overseas Koreans, 1942-1943.” (Hanguk oegugo taehakkyo Yoksa munhwa yonguso) Yoksa munhwa yongu 19 (2003:12): 93-130.

Givens, Helen Lewis. The Korean Community in Los Angeles. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1974.

Houchins, Lee and Chang-su Houchins. "The Korean Experience in America, 1903-1924." In Norris Hundley, Jr., ed. The Asian American: The Historical Experience. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1976. (Originally in Pacific Historical Review 43:4 (November 1974): 548-572.)

Hyun, Bong Hak. "Christmas Cargo; A Civilian Remembers the Hungnam Evacuation." Korean and Korean American Studies Bulletin 8:1/2 (Spring/Summer 1997): 33-44.

Hyun, Peter. Man Sei! The Making of a Korean American. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

Hyun, Peter. In the New World: The Making of a Korean American. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.

Jhung, Walter. "Korean Independence Activities of Overseas Koreans." Korean Survey 1 (December 1952): 7-10.

"The Kang Family." Korean American Historical Society Occasional Papers 2 (1996): 17-81.

Kang, Ellen Soo Sun Song. Stepping Stones. Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym Publishers, 2003.

Kang, K. Connie. Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of A Korean-American Family. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.

Kang, Shin-pyo. "The East-Asian Americans in Hawaiian Setting during 1900-1960." Miguk yongu nonch'ong 5 (1976): 75-87.

Kim, Byung-il. Korean American Pioneer Dosan: A Biography of Chang-ho Ahn. Cerritos, CA: Pacific Institute for Peacemaking, 1996.

Kim, Elaine H., Eui-Young Yu, and Anna Deavere Smith, eds. East to America: Korean American Life Stories. New York: New Press, 1997.

Kim, Elaine H. “’These Bearers of a Homeland’: An Overview of Korean American Literature, 1934-2001.” Korea Journal 41:3 (Autumn 2001): 149-197.

Kim, Hae-Soon. "Koreans in Germany: The Story of Kwang-Chung Kim." Korean American Historical Society Occasional Papers 3 (1997): 33-48.

Kim, Haeyun Juliana. "Voices from the Shadows: The Lives of Korean War Brides." Amerasia Journal 17:1 (1991): 15-30.

Kim, Hyung-chan. "Korean Emigrants to the U.S.A.: 1959-1969." Korea Journal 11:9 (September 1971): 16-24, 31.

Kim, Hyung-chan. "Reflections on the Life and Thought of Dosan: Implications for Korean Americans." In Tosan sasang yonguhoe, ed. Tosan An Ch'angho ui sasang kwa minjok undong. Seoul: Hangmunsa, 1995.

Kim, Hyung-chan, ed. The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1977.

Kim, Hyung-chan, ed. Dictionary of Asian American History. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Kim, Jung-gun. "How Koreans Came to Call Toronto Their Home." Polyphony 6 (Spring-Summer 1984): 176-180.

Kwon, Brenda L. Beyond Ke'eaumoku: Koreans, Nationalism, and Local Culture in Hawai'i. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999.

Lee, Chang-soo. "The United States Immigration Policy and the Settlement of Koreans in America." Korea Observer 6:4 (Autumn 1975): 412-451.

Lee, Helie. Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother. New York: Scribner, 1996.

Lee, Kyhan. "Younghill Kang and the Genesis of Korean-American Literature." Korea Journal 31:4 (Winter 1991): 63-78.

Lee, Mary Paik and Sucheng Chan. "A Korean-Californian Girlhood." California History 67:1 (March 1990): 42-55.

Lee, Mary Paik. Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Lee, Samuel S.O., et al, eds. 75th Anniversary of Korean Immigration to Hawaii, 1903-1978. Honolulu: 75th Anniversary of Korean Immigration to Hawaii Committee, 1978.

Lyu, Kingsley K. "Korean Nationalist Activities in Hawaii and the Continental United States, 1900-1945 (I), (II)." Amerasia Journal 4:1 (1977): 23-90; 4:2 (1977): 53-100.

Macmillan, Michael E. "Unwanted Allies: Koreans as Enemy Aliens in World War II." The Journal of Hawaiian History 19 (1985): 179-203.

Melendy, H. Brett. Asians in America: Filipinos, Koreans, and East Indians. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977.

Murray, Alice Yang. "Ilse Women and the Early Korean American Community." In Young In Song and Ailee Moon, eds. Korean American Women Living in Two Cultures. Los Angeles: Academia Koreana, 1997.

Pai, Margaret K. The Dreams of Two Yi Min. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

Park, Yoosun. "The Politics of Immigration." Korean American Historical Society Occasional Papers 2 (1996): 15-16.

Patterson, Wayne. "The First Attempt to Obtain Korean Laborers for Hawaii, 1896-1897." In Hyung-chan Kim, ed. The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1977.

Patterson, Wayne. "Horace Allen and Korean Immigration to Hawaii." In Andrew C. Nahm, ed. The United States and Korea: American-Korean Relations, 1866-1976. Kalamazoo, MI: The Center for Korean Studies, Western Michigan University, 1979.

Patterson, Wayne. "Sugar-Coated Diplomacy: Horace Allen and Korean Immigration to Hawaii, 1902-1905." Diplomatic History 3:1 (Winter 1979): 19-38.

Patterson, Wayne. "Upward Social Mobility of the Koreans in Hawaii." Korean Studies 3 (1979): 81-92.

Patterson, Wayne. The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1886-1910. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

Patterson, Wayne. "The Early Years of Korean Immigration to Mexico: A View from Japanese and Korean Sources." Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 6 (1993): 87-103.

Patterson, Wayne. "Ninety Years of Koreans in America: New Perspectives on Korean-American Relations, 1902-1992." In Donald Clark, et al. U.S.-Korean Relations. Claremont, CA: The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College, 1995.

Patterson, Wayne. The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawai'i, 1903-1973. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.

Patterson, Wayne and Hyung-chan Kim. The Koreans in America. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1977.

Pomerantz, Linda. "The Background of Korean Emigration." In Lucie Cheng and Edna Bonacich, eds. Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Ra, Young Ran. "Dosan as a Role Model of Korean Americans." In Tosan sasang yonguhoe, ed. Tosan An Ch'angho ui sasang kwa minjok undong. Seoul: Hangmunsa, 1995.

Rhodes, Daisy Chun. Passages to Paradise: Early Korean Immigrant Narratives from Hawai‘i. Los Angeles: Keimyung University Press, 1998.

Romero-Castilla, Alfredo. “The Latin American Route of Korean Migration.” Journal of Korean Studies 2 (April 2002): 47-62.

Ryu, Jai Poong. "Koreans in America: Past and Present." In Tae-Hwan Kwak, et al, eds. U.S.-Korean Relations 1882-1982. Seoul: The Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 1982.

Shin, Linda. "Koreans in America, 1903-1945." In Amy Tachiki, et al, eds. Roots: An Asian American Reader. Los Angeles: Continental Graphics, 1971.

Shinn, Sonia. "Korean Women Pioneers of the Pacific Northwest." Oregon Historical Quarterly 79:1 (Spring 1978): 51-64.

Smith, William Carlson. "The Oregon Papers." Korean American Historical Society Occasional Papers 2 (1996): 1-14.

Son, Young Ho. "Early Korean Immigrants in America: A Socioeconomic and Demographic Analysis." Korea Journal 28:12 (December 1988): 33-45.

Son, Young Ho. "The Search for Ethnic Identity in America: Politics of Korean Nationalism." Korea Journal 29:8 (August 1989): 4-18.

Son, Young Ho. "Early Korean Emigration to America: A Study of 'Push' and 'Pull' Factors." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 69 (1991): 1-17.

Son, Young Ho. "Korean Response to the 'Yellow Peril' and Search for Racial Accomodation in the United States." Korea Journal 32:2 (Summer 1992): 58-74.

Song, Marc. "Towards a History of Koreans in Canada." In Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay, eds. East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society, Culture and Literatures. Edmonton, Canada: Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, 1997.

Suh, Dae-Sook, ed. The Writings of Henry Cu Kim: Autobiography with Commentaries on Syngman Rhee, Pak Yong-man, and Chong Sun-man. Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 1987.

Suh, Dae-Sook. “Pak Yong-man and His Revolution.” In Hanguk tongnip undong e kwanhan kukche haksul taehoe nonmunjip. Seoul: Hanguk tongnip yugongja hyophoe, 1989.

Sunoo, Harold Hakwon and Sonia Shinn. "The Heritage of the First Korean Women Immigrants in the United States: 1903-1924." The Korean Christian Scholars Journal 2 (Spring 1977): 142-171.

Sunoo, Sonia Shinn. Korea Kaleidoscope, Oral Histories, Volume One: Early Korean Pioneers in USA: 1903-1905. Davis, CA: Korean Oral History Project, 1982.

Sunoo. Sonia Shinn. Korean Picture Brides, 1903-1920: A Collection of Oral Histories. [S.I.]: Xlibris, 2002.

Sutton, R. Anderson. "Korean Music in Hawaii." Asian Music 19:1 (Fall-Winter 1987): 99-120.

Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Treadgold, Kent. "Korean American Experiences Before and During World War II." Korean American Historical Society Occasional Papers 3 (1997): 1-32.

White, Dale. "Koreans in Montana." Asia and the Americas 45:3 (March 1945): 156.

Yang, Eun Sik. "Koreans in America, 1903-1945." In Eui-Young Yu, Earl H. Phillips, and Eun Sik Yang, eds. Koreans in Los Angeles: Prospects and Promises. Los Angeles: Koryo Research Institute and Center for Korean-American and Korean Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 1982.

Yang, Eun Sik. "Korean Women of America: From Subordination to Partnership, 1903-1930." Amerasia Journal 11:2 (1984): 1-28.

Yang, Eun Sik. "Korean Women in America: 1903-1930." In Eui-Young Yu and Earl H. Phillips, eds. Korean Women in Transition: At Home and Abroad. Los Angeles: Center for Korean-American and Korean Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 1987.

Yang, Eun Sik. "Korean Revolutionary Nationalism in America: Kim Kang and the Student Circle, 1937-1956." In Eui-Young Yu and Terry R. Kandal, eds. The Korean Peninsula in the Changing World Order. Los Angeles: Center for Korean-American and Korean Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 1993.

Yim, Sun Bin. "The Social Structure of Korean Communities in California, 1903-1920." In Lucie Cheng and Edna Bonacich, eds. Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Yim, Sun Bin. “Korean Immigrant Women in Early Twentieth-Century America.” In Asian Women United of California, ed. Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Yoon, Won-kil. The Passage of a Picture Bride. Loma Linda/Riverside, CA: Loma Linda University Press, 1989.

Yu, Eui-Young. "Koreans in America: An Emerging Ethnic Minority." Amerasia Journal 4:1 (1977): 117-131.

Yu, Eui-Young. "Korean Communities in America: Past, Present, and Future." Amerasia Journal 10:2 (Fall-Winter 1983): 23-52.

Yun, Yo-jun. "Early History of Korean Immigration to America." In Hyung-chan Kim, ed. The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 1977.

 

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