John Lie
Biographic Data
| ID | 92202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Lie |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Lie |
| SIGNATURE | LIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 108 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 385 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 106 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
BTS, the highest stage of K-pop
BTS has emerged as a premier band of the early twenty-first century, even evoking comparisons to the Beatles. This chapter provides the broad background of South Korean popular music, and in particular K-pop, whence BTS debuted in 2013. As identifiable as the group is as a K-pop specimen, it is also important to observe its distinguishing qualities. First, unlike other K-pop acts, BTS takes an active role in artistic decisions and airs its opinio…
The End of the Road: The Post-Zainichi Generation
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a de…
Popular Music and Political Economy: South Korea and Japan in the 2010s, or Girls’ Generation and AKB48
Revolutions, Sociology of
The study of revolutions has been dominated by the reality of the French Revolution and the ideology of Marxism. It has declined in significance because of the delegitimation of actually existing (or existed) communist regimes and the recent surge of interest, both political and scholarly, in nonrevolutionary forms of violence, such as terrorism
Soc
Pedro Iacobelli. Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
In Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands, Pedro Iacobelli seeks to understand and explain the movement of Okinawans (or Ryukyuans) to Bolivia in the 1950s by focusing on the ideologies and policies of three states: Japan, the United States (which administered Okinawa as the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands), and Okinawa. By burrowing in the sending countries’ archives, he also hopes to illum…
Korean Diaspora and Diasporic Nationalism
The ferocity of Korean nationalist discourse is in part the flip side of the weakness of traditional Korean autonomy and identity. The South Korean state remained largely indifferent to the diasporic population until the early 1990s – with the onset of internationalization policy of the newfound democratic regime – but it had done much to promote South Korean emigration. In the extant literature on Korean or any other diaspora, the priority of th…
The Coming Crisis of Scientific and Technological Expertise in South Korea
South Korea has shifted from a relatively well-educated but poorly remunerated workforce to a highly skilled and compensated one in high-value-added industries. This paper analyzes the South Korean government’s science and technology policy and the supply of scientists and engineers in emerging industries. We note a potential shortfall of skilled talent in the near future
The Nation (and the Family) That Failed: The Past and Future of North Koreans in Japan
Communism - along with socialism and kindred progressive, egalitarian ideals - dominated the intellectual life of much of the world from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century: the long Eurocentric period of modernity. Never mind that much of the non-European world was colonized by European empires and Europe-influenced powers of the United States and Japan: the early counter-colonial and national independence movements and ideo…
Burakumin
Burakumin is a modern category of Japanese people who descend from premodern outcastes and social inferiors. The 1871 Emancipation Declaration ironically reified the category by providing a documentary basis for Burakumin identification. Long subject to occupational and residential segregation, Burakumin have assimilated since the 1960s largely due to economic growth and the consequent dissolution of distinct Burakumin neighborhoods. Although soc…
J apan, Multiethnicity in
The ideology of monoethnic Japan dominated the post‐World War II discourses on Japan. While prewar Japan was clearly multiethnic—the Japanese empire reached well beyond the traditional ambit of the Japanese nation and there was a considerable influx of colonial migrants into the main Japanese islands—the postwar period provided a misleading portrait of Japan as an ethnically homogeneous society, owing in no small part to the silence of actually e…
J apan
Japan has been and remains a multiethnic society. The construction of the modern Japanese nation was coeval with the creation of ethnic diversity. The incorporation of northern and southern territories in the late nineteenth century generated Ainu and Okinawans as minority groups. Simultaneously, the emergence of modern citizenship created a new category of Burakumin, descendants of premodern outcastes. The expansion of the Japanese empire incorp…
Ainu
Ainu is a collective term for indigenous people who inhabited the northern portion of the Japanese archipelago. Since the fifteenth century, their territory has contracted precisely as their differentiation from the ethnic Japanese population to the south has accentuated. From the late‐nineteenth‐century incorporation in the nascent Japanese empire, Ainu have suffered from forceful assimilation and entrenched discrimination. In spite of ethnic re…
K orea
Both North and South Korea were nationalist and embraced the ideology of monoethnicity for much of the second half of the twentieth century. However, not only have Korean polities been multiethnic but a significant portion of ethnic Koreans have been diasporic Koreans. Between two states and a global diaspora, the idea of Korea and Koreans remains very much in flux and contested.
Multiethnic Korea?: Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea
Multiethnic Japan
Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society
Why Didn’t “Gangnam Style” Go Viral in Japan: Gender Divide and Subcultural Heterogeneity in Contemporary Japan
Psy’s “Gangnam Style” was the global pop music and video sensation of 2012, but it failed to go viral in Japan. The involuted nature of the Japanese popular music industry—especially the imperative of indigenization—stunted the song’s dissemination. Simultaneously, the song failed to resonate with its potential base of Japanese K-pop fans, who valorized beauty and romance. In making sense of the Japanese reception of “Gangnam Style,” the author a…
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music...the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization...but also …
The Withering Away of the State in China
Victor Nee has led a storied career. From his early study on the cultural revolution at Peking University (Nee and Layman 1969) and his ethnographic foray in Chinatown (Nee and Nee 1973), he has generated scores of impressive and influential articles and books on Chinese America and China in particular, but also more general and theoretical studies of ethnicity and immigration as well as economic sociology (e.g., Alba and Nee 2003; Nee and Swedbe…
Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
Oversight: Representing the Interests of Blacks and Latinos in Congress
Oversight: Representing the Interests of Blacks and Latinos in Congress." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(7), pp. 1348–1349
The structure of afterthought
The structure of afterthought – which I take from the French phrase ‘l'esprit de l'escalier’ – has an unhealthy domination over our thought, our scholarship and politics. Rather than facing up to the present and writing to the future, there is a powerful tendency to retain our gaze backwards, to be shackled in the past way of thinking. I suggest the counter-structure of imagination as one way to think about the nature of scholarship
Political sociology
Political sociology analyzes the operation of power in social life, examining the distribution and machinations of power at all levels: individual, organizational, communal, national, and international. Defined thus, political science becomes a subfield of sociology. Talcott Parsons (1951), for example, treats the political as one of the four principal domains of sociological analysis. In practice, however, political sociology has developed as a …
Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City
Book Review| January 01 2011 Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City. By Pyong Gap Min. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008. xi + 193 pp. Photos, tables, notes, index, and bibliography. $32.50 (cloth). John Lie John Lie University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Ameri…
Sociology of Markets
This paper surveys sociological approaches to the study of markets. Afte considering the economic approach, I delineate the wide range of theoretical schools, including alternative schools in economics, economic anthropology, cultural sociology, the embeddedness approach, and the new political economy. I also briefly discuss recent debates on the transition from planned economy to market and on globalization. I conclude by noting the difficulties…
Embedding Polanyi's Market Society
Karl Polanyi remains one of the most trenchant critics of neoclassical economics. His 'embeddedness' thesis, which holds that all economic activities and institutions are enmeshed in social relations and institutions, offers a sound theoretical basis for economic sociology. Nonetheless, he fails to embed the market concept. This theoretical lacuna manifests itself in his classic account of the rise of market society in England, The Great Transfor…
From International Migration to Transnational Diaspora
In his influential history of American immigrants, Oscar Handlin (1973:3) wrote: Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. Indeed, the sociology of international migration has been a central concern of American sociology, of which William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki's Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918/1958) remains a foundational text (see Wiley 1986).…
Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea
This book reveals how South Korea was transformed from one of the poorest and most agrarian countries in the world in the 1950's to one of the richest and most industrialized states by the late 1980's. The author argues that South Korea's economic, cultural, and political development was the product of a unique set of historical circumstances that cannot be replicated elsewhere, and that only by ignoring the costs and negative consequences of dev…
Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task
American Sociology in a Transnational World: Against Parochialism
John Lie, American Sociology in a Transnational World: Against Parochialism, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 2, Teaching about Inequality and Diversity: Age, Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity (Apr., 1995), pp. 136-144
The Concept of Mode of Exchange
The neoclassical economic concept of the marketfails to consider social relations and structures. I present a sociological concept of of as an alternative and distinguish four modes of exchange based on whether trade is open to popular participation and whether trade is primarily within a region or across regions. The social structural conditions that underlie each mode of exchange include the level of stratification and political centralization.…
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music...the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization...but also …
Visualizing the Invisible Hand: The Social Origins of 'Market Society' in England, 1550-1750
Analyse des origines sociales de la « societe de marche » en Angleterre, durant la periode 1550-1750 (Adam Smith). L'A. montre comment l'analyse sociologique, avec ses concepts d'organisation sociale, de normes, de valeurs et de pouvoir, permet de comprendre la structuration historique des marches en Angleterre
Diasporic Nationalism
In the article, the author stresses the significance of the external and diasporic origins of nationalism. To illustrate the argument, the author draws on the examples of modern Japan and Korea
The Transformation of Sexual Work in 20th-Century Korea
In this article, the author traces the transformation of sexual work, or prostitution, in 20th-century Korea. The author stresses the power relations that create and sustain the changing social organization of sexual work. The traditional, state-organized female entertainers, kisaeng, waned with the collapse of the Yi dynasty. During their colonia rule (1910-45), the Japanese enhanced the commercialization of sexuality and conscripted Korean wome…
Oversight: Representing the Interests of Blacks and Latinos in Congress
Oversight: Representing the Interests of Blacks and Latinos in Congress." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(7), pp. 1348–1349
Why Didn’t “Gangnam Style” Go Viral in Japan: Gender Divide and Subcultural Heterogeneity in Contemporary Japan
Psy’s “Gangnam Style” was the global pop music and video sensation of 2012, but it failed to go viral in Japan. The involuted nature of the Japanese popular music industry—especially the imperative of indigenization—stunted the song’s dissemination. Simultaneously, the song failed to resonate with its potential base of Japanese K-pop fans, who valorized beauty and romance. In making sense of the Japanese reception of “Gangnam Style,” the author a…
North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity
Ruth Benedict's Legacy of Shame: Orientalism and Occidentalism in the Study of Japan
Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea
The State as Pimp: Prostitution and the Patriarchal State in Japan in the 1940s
This article explores the state organization of prostitution in Japan in the 1940s. The Japanese military and the colonial government in Korea created “comfort divisions” (iantai) for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Furthermore, one of the first postwar acts of the Japanese state was to resuscitate “comfort divisions” as the Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA) for the U.S. occupation forces. In narrating state actions and organizati…
Globalization and Its Discontents
The “problem” of foreign workers in contemporary Japan
The rapid mobility of labor and capital across national boundaries is a critical feature of the contemporary capitalist world-economy. Japan is no exception, and the influx of foreign workers (gaikokujin rodosha) became perhaps the most discussed social problem in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While the Japanese mass media was rife with sensationalist coverage, a heated public debate raged on whether Japan should be “open” or “closed” to foreig…
The Political Economy of South Korean Development
The paper analyses South Korean development, which has been hailed as a 'miracle' by many scholars. It identifies four factors as necessary to South Korea's economic growth: cheap labour, land reform, the developmentalist state, and the international political economy. The paper questions the facile celebration of the 'miracle', and stresses some of the costs of South Korean development
Democratization and Its Discontents: Origins of the Present Crisis in South Korea
Double-digit growth in GNP and the recent democratization have drawn attention to South Korea as the model of third world development. Yet even as Goldstar TVs in the living rooms and Hyundai cars in the driveways of suburban homes amply confirm Korean economic might, these same Goldstar TVs bring dramatic images of students clashing with riot police and of striking Hyundai workers.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, whe…
Aid Dependence and The Structure Of Corruption: The Case of Post‐Korean War South Korea
From 1953 to 1961, the South Korean economy grew slowly; the average per capita GNP growth was a mere percent, amounting to less than $100 in 1961. Few people, therefore, look for the sources of later dynamism in this period. As Kyung Cho Chung (1956:225) wrote in the mid‐1950s: “[South Korea] faces grave economic difficulties. The limitations imposed by the Japanese have been succeeded by the division of the country, the general destruction incu…
South Korean Development: The Elusive Reality of Conflicts and Contradictions
Global climate change and the politics of disaster
South Korea in 2006: Nuclear Standoff, Trade Talks, and Population Trends
The nuclear test conducted by North Korea in October 2006 placed the Koreas at the center of world news. Prior to the nuclear test, free trade agreement talks with the United States dominated the year's domestic political discussions. Less newsworthy but potentially more profound are demographic trends, especially the rapid aging of the population, the record low fertility rate, and the rising number of intermarriages
Mis re de l' conomique
Reactionary Marxism: The End of Ideology in Japan
The recent electoral triumph of the reigning Liberal Democratic Party in Japan poses a stark contrast to the disorganized left, while possibly paving the way for the rise of revanchist nationalism. In such an inauspicious time, the temptation on the left is toward either an adventurism ignorant of political reality or a conformism devoid of political possibility. A frightening aspect of contemporary Japan is the collapse of the ideological left t…
The Discriminated Fingers: The Korean Minority in Japan
The Japanese prosperity continues unabated, prominently symbolized by an unprecedented trade surplus and the supremacy of the yen. Prime Minister Nakasone enjoys a high approval rating from the populace as the reign of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party appears as secure as ever. Economic success and domestic stability seem to verify the Panglossian image of Japan as the veritable capitalist utopia. The surface calm nonetheless belies some inter…
Toward a Jewish Component of the Rainbow Coalition; Do Not Dump on the Unoites; A Reply to Spencer Pack
What follows was inspired by the interchange between Vicente Navarro and Sheila Collins on the Rainbow Coalition (MR, June 1987) and the prominent role Jesse Jackson plays in the Democratic presidential race. The contributions of Navarro and Collins made this long-time reader of Monthly Review aware that the Rainbow Coalition, which is largely focused around the Jackson presidential campaign has the potential to "expand its electoral base" and be…
Japanese education as number one
Merry White's The Japanese Educational Challenge is just one more contribution in a series of publications proclaiming “Japan as number one.” The scenario is by now depressingly familiar: delineate a rose-colored portrait of a Japanese institution or practice; contrast it to the sorry state of the United States; then draw some policy prescriptions based on the Japanese model. In short, prescribe Japanese solutions for American problems
South Korean Development: The Elusive Reality of Conflicts and Contradictions
War, Absolution, and Amnesia: The Decline of War Responsibility in Postwar Japan
Democratization and Its Discontents: Origins of the Present Crisis in South Korea
Double-digit growth in GNP and the recent democratization have drawn attention to South Korea as the model of third world development. Yet even as Goldstar TVs in the living rooms and Hyundai cars in the driveways of suburban homes amply confirm Korean economic might, these same Goldstar TVs bring dramatic images of students clashing with riot police and of striking Hyundai workers.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, whe…
Rethinking the “miracle”—economic growth and political struggles in South Korea
Modernization theory, long vilified as reactionary and wrong, regained respectability in the 1980s. The social and political causes of its resurgence are plain: the ascendance of the radical Right and the coeval retrenchment of the Left. Its intellectual merit, however, remains as suspect as when dependency and neo-Marxist theorists seemingly buried it in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Indeed, the Third World remains racked by poverty and pestil…
The Chaebol: Korea's New Industrial Might
Embedding Polanyi's Market Society
Karl Polanyi remains one of the most trenchant critics of neoclassical economics. His 'embeddedness' thesis, which holds that all economic activities and institutions are enmeshed in social relations and institutions, offers a sound theoretical basis for economic sociology. Nonetheless, he fails to embed the market concept. This theoretical lacuna manifests itself in his classic account of the rise of market society in England, The Great Transfor…
Kankō to Ongaku
Foreign Workers in Japan
In the mid-1980s, Prime Minister Nakasone insistently articulated a vision of an "internationalized" Japan that was to claim political and social influence in global affairs commensurate with its economic power. Simultaneously, pundits and politicians focused on the increasing number of illegal workers from underdeveloped Asian countries and speculated about their impact on Japanese economy and society. The fate of migrant labor became perhaps th…
The Concept of Mode of Exchange
The neoclassical economic concept of the marketfails to consider social relations and structures. I present a sociological concept of of as an alternative and distinguish four modes of exchange based on whether trade is open to popular participation and whether trade is primarily within a region or across regions. The social structural conditions that underlie each mode of exchange include the level of stratification and political centralization.…
Korea Briefing, 1990
The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise, 1910-1945
The Political Economy of South Korean Development
The paper analyses South Korean development, which has been hailed as a 'miracle' by many scholars. It identifies four factors as necessary to South Korea's economic growth: cheap labour, land reform, the developmentalist state, and the international political economy. The paper questions the facile celebration of the 'miracle', and stresses some of the costs of South Korean development
Economy and Society
Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
Yobiko Life: A Study of the Legitimation Process of Social Stratification in Japan
Structural Adjustment in a Newly Industrialized Country: The Korean Experience
The purpose of this study was to investigate how Korea adjusted successfully to the combination of low growth, high inflation, and unsustainable current account deficits. The study shows that the factors that contributed most to the successful adjustment were the restoration of the macroeconomic fundamentals and a favorable external environment. Financial reforms and measures to increase domestic competition facilitated the restructuring of the e…
Visualizing the Invisible Hand: The Social Origins of 'Market Society' in England, 1550-1750
Analyse des origines sociales de la « societe de marche » en Angleterre, durant la periode 1550-1750 (Adam Smith). L'A. montre comment l'analyse sociologique, avec ses concepts d'organisation sociale, de normes, de valeurs et de pouvoir, permet de comprendre la structuration historique des marches en Angleterre
Enough Said, Ahmad: Politics and Literary Theory
Governing Capitalist Economies: Performance and Control of Economic Sectors
This comparative analysis of of the coordination and control of industries in North America, Japan, and Western Europe challenges neo-classical economists' assumptions about the efficaciousness of market mechanisms as a means of enhancing economic performance. The authors also explore variation in state policies in the governance of internationally competitive industries (automobiles, chemicals, consumer electronics, and steel, for example) and d…
The “problem” of foreign workers in contemporary Japan
The rapid mobility of labor and capital across national boundaries is a critical feature of the contemporary capitalist world-economy. Japan is no exception, and the influx of foreign workers (gaikokujin rodosha) became perhaps the most discussed social problem in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While the Japanese mass media was rife with sensationalist coverage, a heated public debate raged on whether Japan should be “open” or “closed” to foreig…
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