JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940–2011) was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her Columbia University Press publications include A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang (2013), Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910 (2009), and The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001).William J. Haboush is professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jisoo M. Kim is director of the Institute for Korean Studies and Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

As the first work to thoroughly examine the formation of the Korean nation before the modern era, The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation is an enormous contribution to scholarship on Korean and East Asian history and to the study of nations and nationalism throughout the world. It is certain to cement JaHyun Kim Haboush's legacy as one of the most brilliant scholars of her era.

• Foreword, by William J. HaboushIntroduction1. The Volunteer Army and the Discourse of Nation2. The Volunteer Army and the Emergence of Imagined Community3. War of Words: The Changing Nature of Literary Chinese in the Japanese Occupation4. Language Strategy: The Emergence of a Vernacular National Space5. The Aftermath: Dream Journeys and the Culture of CommemorationPublications by JaHyun Kim HaboushNotesBibliographyIndex

JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940–2011) was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her Columbia University Press publications include A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang (2013), Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910 (2009), and The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001).William J. Haboush is professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jisoo M. Kim is director of the Institute for Korean Studies and Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

As the first work to thoroughly examine the formation of the Korean nation before the modern era, The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation is an enormous contribution to scholarship on Korean and East Asian history and to the study of nations and nationalism throughout the world. It is certain to cement JaHyun Kim Haboush's legacy as one of the most brilliant scholars of her era.

• Foreword, by William J. HaboushIntroduction1. The Volunteer Army and the Discourse of Nation2. The Volunteer Army and the Emergence of Imagined Community3. War of Words: The Changing Nature of Literary Chinese in the Japanese Occupation4. Language Strategy: The Emergence of a Vernacular National Space5. The Aftermath: Dream Journeys and the Culture of CommemorationPublications by JaHyun Kim HaboushNotesBibliographyIndex

JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940–2011) was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her Columbia University Press publications include A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang (2013), Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910 (2009), and The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001).William J. Haboush is professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jisoo M. Kim is director of the Institute for Korean Studies and Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

As the first work to thoroughly examine the formation of the Korean nation before the modern era, The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation is an enormous contribution to scholarship on Korean and East Asian history and to the study of nations and nationalism throughout the world. It is certain to cement JaHyun Kim Haboush's legacy as one of the most brilliant scholars of her era.

• Foreword, by William J. HaboushIntroduction1. The Volunteer Army and the Discourse of Nation2. The Volunteer Army and the Emergence of Imagined Community3. War of Words: The Changing Nature of Literary Chinese in the Japanese Occupation4. Language Strategy: The Emergence of a Vernacular National Space5. The Aftermath: Dream Journeys and the Culture of CommemorationPublications by JaHyun Kim HaboushNotesBibliographyIndex