University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
David C. Kang Publications Courses Research

Publications

Books

 

East Asia Before the West:

Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

Columbia University Press, 2010

 

 

 

 

China Rising :

Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

Columbia University Press, October, 2007

 

 

 

 

Nuclear North Korea:

A Debate on Engagement Strategies (with Victor Cha)

Columbia University Press, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crony Capitalism:

Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines

Cambridge University Press, 2002

 

 

 

Other Family Writings

**NEW!!**
Hildi Kang, Family Lineage Records As a Resource for Korean History: A Case Study of Thirty-Nine Generations of the Sinch'on Kang Family (720 A.D. - 1955) (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).

 

 

 

 

 

Hildi Kang, Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2001). Now out in paperback, and translated into Japanese and Korean!

 

 

 

 

 

Sang-wook Kang, "The Golden Age of DDT, or, The US Army and Me," originally written for AARP The Magazine on the 50th anniversary of the Korean armistice, 2003

 

 

 

Hildi Kang, "A Journey of Forty Years," Hankuk Ilbo, January 1, 1999