Minsoo Kang (1967- ) is a historian and writer. Currently, he is an assistant professor of European intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Missouri—St. Louis. Kang is also an expert on the history of automata in science and in fiction.

Kang has published numerous books and articles on European history. In 'Of Tales and Enigmas', a collection of his essays and short stories, Kang adopts the styles of Western genre fiction to explore his personal vision of Korean history, which creates a marvelously surrealistic landscape where histories, ideas, and legends freely intermingle in a wonderful harmony.

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Fiction and short stories

Of Tales and Enigmas, Prime, 2006
Three Stories: Lady Faraway, The Well of Dreams, The Dilemma of the King and the Beggar; Magazine: Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 22, 2002
A Fearful Symmetry, in Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J Grant eds., The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007, St. Martins, New York, 2007

Nonfiction

Visions of the Industrial Age, Ashgate, 2008
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination, Harvard University Press, 2011

Essays and articles

De la Sagesse Inaboutie du Barbare: Un Erudit Confucéen Lit la vie de Saint Ignace, in Daniel S. Milo, Alain Boureau ed., Alter Histoire: Essais d’Histoire Expérimentale, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1991
Review of Das Schreckliche Mädchen, in The American Historical Review 96, 4, 1991
Review of Hard Times and Culture - Fin de Siécle Vienna, in The American Historical Review 97, 4, 1992
The Moderns: Art, Forgery, and a Postmodern Narrative of Modernism, in Robert Rosenstone ed., Revisioning History, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995
How to Keep Heaven’s Mandate, The Times Literary Supplement, June 19, 1998
Ten Short Essays on Korea, AZ 1, 1, 1999
Gyungbok Palace: History, Controversy, Geomancy, Manoa 11, 1, 1999
Reading Dutch, Rethinking History 4, 3, Winter 2000
The Use of Dreaming for the Study of History, Rethinking History 5, 2, Summer 2001
Review of John E. Wills Jr.’s 1688: A Global History, Rethinking History 5, 3, Winter 2001
Wonders of Mathematical Magic: Lists of Automata in the Transition from Magic to Science, 1533—1662, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 33, 2002
Building the Sex Machine: the Subversive Fantasy of the Female Robot, Intertexts, 9, 2, 2006
The Ambivalent Power of the Robot, Antenna: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 9, March 21, 2009.
Review of Walter L. Abramson’s Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism’s Resistance to Commodity Culture, Journal of World History, June 2009.

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