Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

グローバル時代における韓国文化
Cho, Joanne Miyang / Roberts, Lee M. (eds.), Korean Culture in the Global Age: K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Film, and K-Literature. (Routledge Studies in Cultural History 167) 286 pp. 2025 (Routledge, UK) <744-886>
ISBN 978-1-032-19017-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Since the late 1990s, South Korean cultural products such as pop music, TV drama, and film have shaped the country's image around the world. This book explores these three internationally best-known media of the Korean Wave global phenomenon, along with a less commonly featured aspect, K-literature.Iconic images of South Korea today include stylish music groups like BTS and Blackpink, appealing dramas, and a range of films and digital comics (manhwa). Alongside associations with glitz and glamor are darker impressions: continuing political division, malaise over a war that never really ended. Korean Culture in the Global Age focuses on these and other facets of South Korea's constantly changing international image to show how it has come to command worldwide attention. In recent years, readers in a growing number of languages have discovered the talent of South Korean authors through the efforts of countless translators. Showing developments in and occasional connections between themes in K-pop, K-drama, K-film, and K-literature, the book provides a more comprehensive view of contemporary South Korean culture.This volume will interest researchers and students of Korean Studies, Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, popular music, film studies, migration and diaspora studies, and world literature.

Goldring, Edward / Ward, Peter, Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond. (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia) 88 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-887>
ISBN 978-1-009-57215-6 hard ¥15,548.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-57213-2 paper ¥5,088.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the successor govern once he comes to power. Then, once in office, successors consolidate power by initially relying on this power base to govern while marginalizing elites from their predecessor's inner circle before later targeting members of their own power base to further consolidate power. The Element presents evidence for these arguments from North Korea's two leadership transitions, leveraging original qualitative and quantitative evidence from inside North Korea. Comparative vignettes of succession in party-based China, Egypt's military regime, and monarchical Saudi Arabia demonstrate the theory's broader applicability. The Element contributes to research on comparative authoritarianism by highlighting how dictators use the non-institutional tool of elite management to facilitate succession.

韓流の時代における文化政策
Kim, Taeyoung, Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave: The South Korean Government's Instrumentalisation of Popular Culture. (Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia) 224 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-888>
ISBN 978-1-032-90994-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave explores how the state instrumentalises cultural industries, despite the bulk of their production and delivery mechanisms becoming subject to the market logic and foreign stakeholders, through an in-depth study of the South Korean government's cultural industry policies.Drawing on interviews with policymakers and producers in the Korean film, music, and television industries, it investigates how the government's policy schemes-ranging from funding programmes and public agencies established to promote cultural industries to the blacklisting of those opposing the administration's political agendas-demonstrate the government's strong desire to influence cultural production. The findings highlight how the state retains political power to instrumentalise cultural products, even as market forces shape production mechanisms and genre characteristics that have become increasingly transnational.This book sheds new light on how the state approves and reappropriates the doctrines of neoliberal globalisation to serve its interests in instrumentalising culture, making it relevant for scholars and students in the areas of media and cultural policy, media and cultural industries, global media, and Asian studies.