The following list contains research and activities relevant to Northeast Asia, Sino-North Korean relations, and the DPRK undertaken by SinoNK.com’s staff members:
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ADAM CATHCART, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief (full bio here):
Selected Research Articles
(2011). “The Bonds of Brotherhood: New Evidence of Sino-North Korean Exchanges, 1950-1954,” with Charles Kraus, Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, 27-51.
(2010). “Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in the Sino-Korean Border Region of Yanbian, 1945-1950,” Korean Studies, Vol. 34, 25-53.
(2009). “North Korean Hip Hop? Reflections on Musical Diplomacy and the DPRK,” Acta Koreana, Vol. 12, No. 2 (December), 1-19.
(2008). “Peripheral Influence: The Sinuiju Student Incident and the Soviet Occupation of North Korea, 1945-1947,” with Charles Kraus, Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Fall), 1-28.
Selected Journalistic Articles/Op-Eds
(2012). “Cracking Down and Opening Up: China’s Defector Discourse,” The Daily NK [online], May 29.
(2012). “The Sea of Blood Opera Show: A History of North Korean Musical Diplomacy,” The Atlantic [online], March 19.
(2012). “How Weibo ‘Killed’ Kim Jong-Un,” The Diplomat [online], February 11.
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CHRISTOPHER GREEN, MA, Co-Editor (full CV here):
Books
(2011). NK People Speak, 2011 (chief ed.), Zeitgeist, 2011.
Selected Research Articles
(2011). “Looking at Food Aid with Open Eyes,” Korea Policy, Vol.6 (May-June), 74-76.
Selected Journalistic Articles/Op-Eds
Sample of Daily NK commentaries:
(2012). “Kim Regime Playing Disney Catch-up,” with Courtney Grogan, July 9.
(2012). “Kim Regime Facing Military Loyalty Battle,” November 2.
Others:
(2012). “A North Korean Rebel,” Asia Sentinel [online], October 19.
(2012). “Kim Jong-un Prepares Balancing Act,” with Sokeel J. Park, Asia Times [online], September 22.
(2012). “Beware the North Korean Rumor Mill,” SinoNK [online], July 25.
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STEVEN DENNEY, Managing Editor (full CV here):
Selected Journalistic Articles/Op-Eds
(2012). “Access to Propaganda: On The Associated Press Deal with North Korea,” SinoNK.com, August 4.
(2012). “The Cold War is Sustained Through Pyongyang: The East-West Divide in Northeast Asia,” e-IR.com, June 12..
(2012). “The Political Economy of Economic Reform: Using Trade to Keep the Debate in Bloom,” SinoNK.com, May 27.
(2012). “China’s Pragmatic Approach to the North Korea Problem: Andrei Lankov on What China Wants,” SinoNK.com, April 11.
Selected Book Reviews
(forthcoming). “To Never Forget, One Must First Know,” review of Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, Korea Review, Vol. 2, No. 2.
Selected Interviews
(2012). “Gusts of Popular Feeling: South Korean Presidential Race and North Korea, an Interview,” interview with Asan Institute for Policy Studies program officer, SinoNK.com, October 7.
(2012). “Asia in the Age of the Pivot: Understanding Asia in the 21st Century,” interview with Professor Moon Chung-in, published in Yonsei Journal of International Studies Vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 143-155.
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DARCIE DRAUDT, Assistant Editor
Selected Research Articles
(2012). “Media (Re)Constructions of Kim Jong-un’s Ideal Women: Ko Young-hee and Ri Sol-ju.” Papers, Essays and Reviews, the Yonsei University Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 2.
Selected Journalistic Articles/Op-Eds
Sample of SinoNK articles:
(2012). “Modern, Feminine and Bright: Kim Jong-un’s First Lady,” SinoNK.com, July 28.
(2012). “Beautiful Defectors: An Exploration of South Korea’s “Now on My Way to Meet You,” with Brian Gleason. August 3.
(2012). “Beautiful Defectors, Part II: Everyday Fashion as Political: Blending into the South Korean Middle Class,” with Brian Gleason. August 10.
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NATHAN BEAUCHAMP-MUSTAFAGA, MA, Analyst
MA Thesis
(2012). “Chinese Bureaucratic Politics and Sino-North Korean Relations: Dynamics and Implications,” Peking University, People’s Republic of China.
Selected Research Articles
(2012). “Prospects for North Korean Economic Reform,” China Analysis (European Council on Foreign Relations) [online], September 26.
(2012). “Chinese Perspectives: Third North Korean Nuclear Test Unlikely (For Now),” 38North.org [online], August 14.
(2012). “Se i cinesi “sfiduciano” chi li governa (Chinese Public Opinion Survey),” OrizzonteCina [online], March 30.
(2012). “Through Chinese Eyes,” The Interpreter (The Lowy Institute for International Policy) [online], January 25.
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ROBERT WINSTANLEY-CHESTERS, MA, Analyst
Ph.D Thesis
(forthcoming 31/01/2013). “Landscape as Political Project?– Environmental Management in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
MA Thesis
(2008). “On The Other Side of The Fence – Researching Reactionary Responses to Social Change,” University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Selected Journalistic Articles/Op-Eds
Sample of Sino-NK articles:
(2012). “Trees and a Trinity: Environmental Narratives Revised at the Accession of Kim Jong-il,” March 27.
(2012). “Salmon Farming in the DPRK- Multifunctional Reclamation Strategy in North Korea,” May 6.
(2012). “The Korean People are doing their best to turn the country into a socialist fairyland”: Glory Reflected, The Emergent Environmental Strategies of Kim Jong Un,” May 31.
(2012). “Forests as Spaces of Revolution and Resistance : Thoughts on Arboreal Comradeship on a Divided Peninsula,” June 28.
Selected Conference Appearances
(2012). “Landscape as Political Project- The ‘Greening’ of the DPRK, Sincerity or Deception? Investigating the Process of Ideological Incorporation in North Korea,” 12th East Asian Studies Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 10.
(2012). “Nature Loved Kim Jong-il, Nature Loves Kim Jong-un- the Natural as Legitimative Factor in DPRK Presentational Narratives”, East Asia in Performance, Graduate Student Conference in East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, April 27-28.
(2012). “Landscape as Political Project?- New Juche Orientated Strategies for Coastal Reclamation,” 16th Asian Studies Conference Japan ,Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan , June 30- July 1.
(2012). “Landscape as Political Project? – The Conservational Paradigm in the DPRK, Developing Connections and Diffusing Borders, the Korean Peninsula and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Peace Park,” 3rd Conference of Asian Borderlands Research Network, Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, Singapore, October 11-13.
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