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Occupation
  
professor

Name
  
Samuel Perry


Role
  
Author

Parents
  
Rhoda Perry

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Born
  
October 30, 1969 (age 54) (
1969-10-30
)
New York, USA

Books
  
Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde

Samuel Perry (born October 30, 1969) is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. A specialist on Japanese and Korean literature, he is the author of Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-garde. He is also the translator of Kang Kyŏng-ae's From Wŏnso Pond as well as a forthcoming collection of stories by Ineko Sata (佐多稲子), having received a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. His most recent work is a cultural history of the Korean War as experienced in Japan, a book he is writing now while on an ACLS Fellowship at CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.

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Life

Perry is the son of a former Rhode Island College Professor of Sociology, Donald Perry, and Rhode Island State Senator, Rhoda Perry. He graduated with an AB from Brown University in 1991 and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 2007. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He also attended universities in Japan, South Korea and Germany, and was for several years a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH.

Translations

  • Sata Ineko, Five Faces of Japanese Feminism: Crimson and Other Works. Translated and introduced by Samuel Perry. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai`i Press, 2016).
  • Kang Kyŏng-ae, From Wŏnso Pond 인간문제. Translated and introduced by Samuel Perry. (New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1-55861-601-1
  • Song Yŏng, "The Blast Furnace". In Theodore Hughes, Sang-Kyung Lee, Jae-Yong Kim & Jin-kyung Lee, eds., Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series, 2014). ISBN 978-1933947877
  • Sata Ineko, "White and Purple" 白と紫 (1950) [1] Translator's Introduction to "White and Purple" [2]
  • References

    Samuel E. Perry Wikipedia