School of Asian Studies

Publications

• Book

  Son Z.

  The Russian Koreans in the 1920s and 1930s. An Ethnic Community in the Face of Soviet Power

  This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the history of Soviet Koreans (1920s-1930s), focusing into their experiences in the USSR. It examines the impact of Stalin's foreign and domestic policies on
  Soviet Koreans, their role in the socio-economic development of the Far East, and their contributions to the Red Army, as well as the cultural and educational aspects of their lives. Key themes include the political repression of Soviet Koreans during Stalin’s era and their subsequent rehabilitation in the Russian Federation.

  
  

  Brill, 2025.

• Article

  Kim H. R.

  Жизнь и вклад в науку корейского лингвиста Ким Су Гёна (на англ.)

  Abstract. This article discusses the biography of Kim Sukyung (1918—2000), a prominent South Korean linguist who moved to the North after liberation, and the sig nificance of his research for Korean linguistics. In addition, the influence of Soviet lin guistics on his linguistic research will be examined, and the importance of North and South Korean contributions to Korean linguistics will be noted. Kim Sukyung, who completed his studies in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Letters, Keijo Imperial University in 1940 during the Japanese colonial period and later studied linguistics as a graduate student at Daoist Imperial University, has been called the lin guistic genius of Joseon. Kim Sukyung is not as well known among Korean scholars as, for example, such linguists and famous students of Ju Si kyung as Choi Hyonbae and Kim Dubong from North and South Korea. These linguists studied the Korean language after the division of North and South Korea and worked to mo dernize the Korean language, improving it to make it easier to use. In this article, we look at North Korean linguistics from the perspective of the linguistics of the Soviet Union, based on rare materials from Russia, and shed light on the life of a linguist who experienced the pain of separation from his family and homeland.

  Koreanology. 2026. No. 2 (15). P. 83-99.

• Book chapter

  Singh A.

  The Partition of 1947 and the Phenomenology of Violence

  Phenomenology as a method allows the person to understand the historical facts along with an emotive structure. History as a fact does not hold meaning of it can’t be related to the time period which it describes. Human emotion feelings are on of the best guides for a comprehensive structure to understand the events as important as the partition of India in 1947. It was not just political or geographical movement to be scaled it was a human tragedy which can’t be completely captured by the facts, it needs essence of the entire event to be understood in terms of violence and displacement and the feelings associated with all these factors. The political, cultural shift that was witnessed in the 20th century in India was a water shed event as it led to the creation of the two separate trends of cultural and sociological interpretations which viewed the event in terms of its effects and causes. The paper tries to view the historical event from the prism of phenomenology and locate all variables from the phenomenological perspective to have better grasp of the facts and the emotions. 

  In bk.: Война и мир: вооруженные конфликты в Южной Азии и пути их разрешения. M.: 2026. P. 180-196.

• Working paper

  Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A.

  Extended Family Structures Exert a Causal Influence on Fertility

  Research of the impact of kin alloparenting on reproduction mainly focuses on mother’s parents and parents-in-law. The impact on fertility of extended families and the alloparental help with childcare they can provide has received much less attention. Moreover, there is an important lacuna in the existing studies of this problem, as it is mostly approached through correlational studies, while the presence of a causal link remains unclear. Using an instrumental variables approach, we demonstrate that prevalence of extended family structures exert a causal influence on fertility. A one standard-deviation increase in prevalence of extended families is associated with approximately 1.07 additional children per woman. These results highlight that family structure is not only statistically significant but also demographically consequential in shaping fertility outcomes.

  SocArXiv. Soc. SocArXiv, 2025