Sung Shin Kim, Ph.D.

• World History since 1500
• History of East Asia
• History of Early China
• History of Modern China
• Korea at the Center: The History of Modern Korea
• Imperialism in East Asia

Public Writing:

• “The Fantasy Story as a Merciless Laboratory of History: On R.F. Kuang’s Babel,” Los Angeles Review of Books (December 3, 2022). Co-authored with Kurt Guldentops. 
• “Violent Acts of Alien Intelligences: On Cixin Liu’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ and Mark Bould’s Climate Criticism,” Los Angeles Review of Books (May 21, 2022). Co-authored with Kurt Guldentops. 

Scholarly Publications:

• “Defeat in Victory: The Memory of South Korea’s Democratization Movement in Hwang Sok-yong’s The Old Garden and in the Cinema of Im Sang-soo,” World History Bulletin 37:2 (Fall 2021–Spring 2022).
• Contributor to Richard Byers and Victoria Hightower (eds.), Transitions and Transformations in World History, 1500–Present, online textbook platformed by TopHat.com (2014-19).
• Editor, The Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art (Dahlonega: University Press of North Georgia, 2016). Proceedings of the Second North Georgia Arts & Letters Conference.
• “Leveraging the China Market: Wu Tingfang’s Case Against Chinese Exclusion,” World History Bulletin 31:2 (November 2015).
• “The Great War, the Collapse of Civilization, and Chinese Visions of World Order,” Special Forum on World War I, Peace and Change 40:2 (April 2015).
• “Korean Explorations between Civilization and Barbarism in the Eighteenth Century,” Forum on Travel and Travel Accounts in World History, World History Connected 10:2 (June 2013).