Global Easts

Stefan Berger, author of History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice:
Jie-Hyun Lim is one of the most original and innovative historians of his generation. Ranging wonderfully knowledgeable across Western and East Asian history alike, his articles on ‘entangled Easts’ that link the history of Poland and East-Central Europe with Korea and East Asia are always thought-provoking and promising fresh and new insights about being ‘on the margins’. Lim has come up over the years with a range of influential key concepts including ‘mass dictatorship’ and ‘victimhood nationalism’ and anyone interested in questions of memory, modernity, democracy and dictatorship in the global twentieth century will come way inspired from reading this important book.

Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919:
Few books have the range and ambition of Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia in conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it.