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Category: Late Chosŏn

English/Historiography/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 2

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I’m having great fun with this class, but I’m still discovering vast areas of ignorance as we move along: Eunuchs: The Kabo reforms abolish the offi...

Christianity/Frog in A Well/Historical analogies/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Religion/Textbooks

Tonghak and Taiping

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheist...

Academia/Christianity/Conferences/English/Gender/Historiography/Korea/Korea-China/Late Chosŏn/Religion

Korean (Gender) Studies at ASPAC

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

In spite of the lovely Korean Studies Center which headquartered the conference, ASPAC 2007 didn’t have a lot of Korean content. In fact, with the excepti...

Contemporary/Events/Korea/Korea-China/Late Chosŏn

Two talks this week

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Owen / 0 Comment

A couple of very interesting talks coming up at short notice for anyone who happens to be around in LA or Seoul in the next couple of days (or perhaps both if y...

Korea/Late Chosŏn/임진왜란

Sea Devils (revisited)

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Owen / 3 Comments

Professor Gari Ledyard of Columbia University has left a couple of extremely good posts on the Korean Studies Mailing List that deserve to be shared here. They ...

Economic/General/Korea/Labor/Late Chosŏn

Sell yourself

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

“Selling yourself” – one of those phrases we use in a somewhat metaphorical sense, but which nonetheless has a more literal meaning than we pr...

Colonial/Conferences/Historiography/Intellectual/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Museums/Nationalism

Empty history

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Owen / 7 Comments

I’m spending a few weeks in Korea, mainly for the Academy of Korean Studies organised World Congress of Korean Studies that will be taking place this week...

Contemporary/Cultural/Korea/Late Chosŏn

If you thought the Chosŏn dynasty was over, think again

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

Actually, strictly speaking, 88-year-old Yi Hae-won was crowned queen (or should that be empress?) of the Great Han Empire (大韓帝國) last week, rather than the Cho...

Archaeology/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Law/Libraries/Museums

History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...

English/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Libraries/Web Sites

Yun Chi-ho’s Diary Online

Posted on August 6, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Owen has posted some great links on the study of pre-modern Korean history. In one of his postings he mentioned the National History Compilation Committee (국사편찬...

Christianity/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Homer B. Hulbert Event

Posted on August 2, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

I made a visit to the foreigner’s cemetery located at on the Seoul Union Church grounds in Hapjeong. Today banners were hanging in several places around t...

Korea/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Memory

Feuding clans

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

There is a fascinating article in today’s International Herald Tribune on Korean family grave sites, feng shui and the long-running feud between the Yoon ...

Cultural/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

The Korean Folk Village

Posted on July 2, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

A few days ago I visited the Korean Folk Village near Suwŏn. You can learn all about the village from the English version of its propaganda video, complete with...

bibliography/Books and Articles/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Libraries

Into the archives

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Owen / 1 Comment

Major source material publication projects for premodern history A bit of a change of pace here, but I thought I’d share a bit of the information I’ve gathered ...

Books and Articles/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Libraries

New version of Yorha Ilgi discovered

Posted on February 23, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

It’s always exciting when something new and exciting is discovered getting dusty in a forgotten corner of a library somewhere. This time it’s an ear...

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