"Jina E. Kim's Urban Modernities in Colonial Korea and Taiwan is a remarkable addition to the growing field of intra-Asian comparative literature, as well as to the fields of Korean literature and Taiwanese literature, to studies of imperial and postcolonial East Asia, and to scholarship on global modernisms. Urban Modernities brims with insights. It is a timely monograph that will be of great interest to scholars and students in a range of fields. This book is well-researched and clearly written. It skillfully intertwines Western theory while at the same time eschewing jargon. Drawing from a range of scholarship on East Asia in English, Chinese, and Korean, Kim's book advances multiple fields, including the still relatively young field of modern intra-Asian comparative literature. It will almost certainly inspire significant transnational and transregional scholarship.

" - Karen L. Thornber, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , Volume 81, Numbers 1&2, 2021, pp. 364-370. "Jina Kim's colony-centered approach and the skillful manner in which she combines a wealth of evidence and theory to collapse long-accepted dichotomies between metropole and colony, between advanced and back-ward, are two of the main reasons to recommend this book. A third is the rich texture of everyday life in Korea and Taiwan during the 1920s and 1930s that emerges from her discussions of her literary examples." - Evan N. Dawley, The Journal of Japanese Studies , Volume 47, Number 2 (Summer 2021), pp.482-487.