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Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea with Ksenia Chizhova

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On April 22, 2021, the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) hosted another Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea, Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday. The event was moderated by Professor Jisoo Kim, Director of GWIKS, and the speaker was Dr. Ksenia Chizhova, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Cultural Studies at Princeton University. In this presentation Dr. Chizhova introduced her first book Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea. The book is situated at the intersection of the history of emotions, family, and scriptural practices in Korea, from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. This book talk contextualizes lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read within the patrilineal transformation of the Chosŏn society and the emergence of elite vernacular Korean culture, patronage by elite women.

Dr. Chizhova started her presentation by narrating the first few sentences of her book. She further added that the rise of the lineage novel was due to the flashing out of Korean patrilineal kinship in the 17th century. She also shares more insights into the history of lineage novels, feelings and conflicts of kinship, and snippets from other kinship novels. Dr. Chizhova’s presentation was followed by the Q&A session. The moderator, Dr. Kim and the audience submitted a wide range of questions including, the usage of emotions and affect in the context of the kinship novels, placing of the Korean lineage novels on the early modern Chosŏn context, Dr. Chizhova’s reason for choosing kinship as the main theme of her research, novels on the lives of husbands and sons, etc.

Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea with Adam Bohnet

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On May 4th, 2021, The George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) hosted its final installment of the Choson Korea book talk series of the semester. The event was moderated by Jisoo Kim, Director of GWIKS. The book featured is entitled: “Beyond Civilized and Barbarians: Understanding the Settlement of Chinese Migrants in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Choson Korea” by Adam Bohnet, Associate Professor of History at King’s University at Western. 

Professor Kim began by introducing Professor Bohnet and his book, the first book in English that explores Choson Korea through the lens of foreigners. Professor Bohnet first described the main groups of foreigners in early Choson Korea. These groups were Jurchens and other northern peoples, Japanese and other maritime peoples, and Chinese and others who were employed as interpreters, legal specialists, medical experts. These foreigners were all given “Hyanghwain” status, which Professor Bohnet translates to “submitting foreigners.” This status means they were given tax breaks, land, Korean wives, and Korean last names. In return, they paid tribute. The reasoning for this status was the feeling by the Korean leadership that they were helping people who had come to live and learn in a morally right Confucian state. In late Choson Korea, the main foreigner groups were Jurchens, who could join the army or the government or settle further inland, Japanese who had defected to Choson during the Imjin War, Chinese who were deserters from the Ming military during the Imjin War, and refugees. The final group was Dutch and others. Bohnet then disproved the accepted idea that Chinese foreigners were given higher status, up to the 18th century there was no clear distinction between foreigners of Chinese origin and foreigners of Jurchen and Japanese origin. In fact, while Chinese deserters were often made to feel unwelcome, Jurchens and Japanese were warmly welcomed especially when they had specific skills or roles to play. Professor Kim then asked Professor Bohnet about his translation of “Hyanghwain,” the status of children, and the Chinese foreigners’ jobs as legal specialists. She then asked him some audience questions, which were questions about foreigner women, the maritime Muslims, the geographical distribution, and how this period is thought about now by the South Korean state.

Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday

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On April 22nd, 2021, the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) hosted another Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea, Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday. The event was moderated by Professor Jisoo Kim, Director of GWIKS, and the speaker was Dr. Ksenia Chizhova, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Cultural Studies at Princeton University. In this presentation Ksenia Chizhova introduces her first book Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea. The book is situated at the intersection of the history of emotions, family, and scriptural practices in Korea, from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. This book talk contextualizes lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read within the patrilineal transformation of the Chosŏn society and the emergence of elite vernacular Korean culture, patronage by elite women.

Dr. Chizhova started her presentation by narrating the first few sentences of her book. She further added that the rise of the lineage novel was due to the flashing out of Korean Patrilineal Kinship in the 17th century. She also shares more insights into the history of lineage novels, feelings and conflicts of Kinship, and snippets from other Kinship novels. Dr. Chizhova’s presentation was followed by the Q&A session. The moderator, Dr. Kim and the audience submitted a wide range of questions including, the usage of emotions and affect in the context of the Kinship novels, placing of the Korean lineage novels on the early modern Chosŏn context, Dr. Chizhova’s reason for choosing Kinship as the main theme of her research, novels on the lives of husbands and sons, etc.

Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea, The Diary of 1636 and the Manchu Invasions of Korea

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On March 29th, 2021, the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) hosted another Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea, featuring The Diary of 1636 and the Manchu Invasions of Korea. In this presentation, George Kallander, Associate Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University introduces his new book The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea (Columbia University Press, 2020). The presentation and discussion was moderated by Professor Jisoo Kim, Director of GWIKS. Professor Kallander started the presentation by giving a brief introduction to the contents of his book. The first half of his presentation discusses the Manchu Korean struggles during the first half of the 17th century. Next, he focuses on the writer Na Man’gap and offers insights into his experiences and reasons for composing the diary, and finally he concludes by offering his comments about what we can learn from these struggles during the Manchu Wars.

Following Professor Kallander’s presentation, the moderator moved onto a Q&A session. The audience submitted a wide range of questions such as Na Man’gap’s view on the concept of loyalty and fidelity with reference to women, how did geography enter Chosŏn’s preference of the Ming over the Qing dynasties, geopolitical circumstances of the Ming transition, the speaker’s views on the role of Manchu invasion, factional strife and relationship with the Ming, how the narratives of the Korean invasion challenge current understandings of Korean identity, Chosŏn’s military preparedness after the 1627 crisis, and more.

Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea, “Vernacular Eloquence of Chosŏn Korea Beyond the Korean Scripture”

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On March 11, 2021, the GW Institute of Korea Studies (GWIKS) hosted the first Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea Vernacular Eloquence of Chosŏn Korea Beyond the Korean Script. In this presentation, Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of east Asian Language and Civilizations Harvard University, introduces her book The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing, the first book in the English language on the late Chosŏn literary genre of yadam. Moderated by Professor Jisoo Kim, Director of GWIKS, Prof. Park started her presentation by introducing her book’s argument and the context around it. She stated that in the Korean Literature the word “vernacular” is intimately and convolutedly tied up with the Korean script. Prof. Park’s primary goal is to help rethink the persistent misconception about Korean literature. She does this by discussing the yadam genre, which is a prime example of a type of vernacular eloquence.

Next, Prof. Park discusses the book’s implication as a research project that extricates the genre of yadam from the nation-centered literary historiography (kungmunhak) of the 20th century and puts forward a need to consider vernacular eloquence beyond the Korean script and script-focused linguistic nationalism. Following her presentation, the moderator moved onto a Q&A session. The audience submitted a wide range of questions, inquiring about the relevant themes in yadam and how it reflects Korean nationalist spirit, the role of low-level clerks in producing yadam text, comparing yadam text to other Korean texts, resources for translating yadam text into Russian literature, the prevalence of metatextuality in vernacular stories, and more. Answering these questions, Prof. Park highlighted some of the common themes such as status of awareness, soul as an urban space, anecdotes on famous historical people, war stories, etc. She also stated that by the 19th-century the volume and scope of literature increased comprehensively.      

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3/11 Vernacular Eloquence of Chosŏn Korea Beyond the Korean Script

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Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea

Speaker

Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Moderator

Jisoo Kim, Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies; Co-Director, East Asia NRC

Date & Time

Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Virtual Event

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Event Description

In this presentation, Si Nae Park introduces her book The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia University, 2020), the first book in the English language on the late Chosŏn literary genre of yadam. The presentation has two components. First, Park highlights key points of her book: how the culture of eighteenth-century Seoul as the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time, and how yadam narratives spread in the late Chosŏn culture of texts. Next, Park discusses the book’s implication as a research project that extricates the genre of yadam from the nation-centered literary historiography (kungmunhak) of the 20th century, and puts forward a need to consider vernacular eloquence beyond the Korean script and script-focused linguistic nationalism.

Speaker

Si Nae Park is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. She studies the literature, culture of texts, history of writing and reading, and linguistic thought of Korea within the larger context of the Sinographic Cosmopolis. Park’s research specializes in the role of linguistic sensibilities in perception, conceptualization, production and diffusion of literature, literary historiography, and canon formation. Currently, Park is working on her second monograph to examine the impact of aurality on literature with a focus on Chosŏn vernacular novels (ŏnmun sosŏl) as vocalized books. Her first book, The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia University, 2020), explores the rise of the vernacular story genre (yadam) in sinographic writing, challenging the script (han’gŭl)-focused approach to 20th-century Korean language and literature. Park the co-editor of Score One for the Dancing Girl and Other Stories from the ‘Kimun ch’onghwa’: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea (University of Toronto Press, 2016).

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

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3/29 The Diary of 1636 and the Manchu Invasions of Korea

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Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea

Speaker
George L Kallander, Syracuse University

Moderator
Jisoo M. Kim, GW Institute for Korean Studies

Monday, March 29, 2021
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Virtual Event via Zoom

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Event Description

Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. Chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack, the scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu assault in his Diary of 1636 (Pyŏngjarok). Partly composed as a narrative of the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender. Based on his new book The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea  (Columbia University Press, 2020), George Kallander will discuss the Korean response to the Manchu attacks and the relevance of the diary to readers in Chosŏn and contemporary times.

Speaker

George Kallander (left) is associate professor of history at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where he is director of the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. His research focuses on early modern Korea. He is author of two books The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea (Columbia University Press, 2020) and Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2013). He is co-editors of the Cambridge History of Korea project, the Chosŏn Dynasty volume, for which he is also contributing a chapter. He is also completing a new monograph tentatively titled Beastly Rites: Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Premodern Korea. Professor Kallander has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Academy of Korean Studies, and Columbia University.

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim (right) is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

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4/8 Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea

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Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea

Speaker
Hwisang Cho, Emory University

Moderator
Jisoo M. Kim, GW Institute for Korean Studies

Thursday, April 8, 2021
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time

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Event Description

While discussing his book The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea (University Washington Press, 2020), Hwisang Cho will give a survey of the “epistolary revolution” that shaped Korean society from the sixteenth century to the end of the Chosŏn dynasty and beyond. By examining the physical peculiarities of new letter forms, the cooptation of letters for other purposes after their communicative functions, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres, this talk will illuminate how innovation in epistolary practices allowed diverse writers to move beyond the limits imposed by the existing scholarly culture, gender norms, and political systems. While emphasizing how the epistolary revolution posed new challenges to traditional values and already-established institutions, it will demonstrate that new modes of reading and writing developed in the seemingly mundane and trivial practice of letter writing triggered a flourishing of Neo-Confucian moral thought, the formation of new kinds of cultural power, and the rise of elite public politics.

Speaker

Hwisang Cho (left) is an assistant professor in Korean studies at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. in premodern Korean history from Columbia. Cho’s areas of specialization include the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of Korea, comparative textual media, and global written culture.

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim (right) is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

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4/22 Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday

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Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea

Speaker
Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University

Moderator
Jisoo M. Kim, GW Institute for Korean Studies

Thursday, April 22, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time

Virtual Event via Zoom

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Event Description

Violence and bloody family feuds constitute the core of the so-called lineage novels (kamun sosŏl) that circulated in Chosŏn Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Such subject matter becomes ever more puzzling when we consider that the main audience for these texts were elite women of Korea, who were subjected to exacting comportment standards and domestic discipline. Coeval with the rise and fall of Korean patrilineal kinship, these texts depict the genealogical subject—emotional self socialized through the structures of prescriptive kinship, but kinship itself is treated as a series of conflicts between genders and generations.

This talk will contextualize lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read within the patrilineal transformation of the Chosŏn society and the emergence of elite vernacular Korean culture, patronaged by elite women. The proliferation of kinship narratives in the Chosŏn period illuminates the changing affective contours of familial bonds and how the domestic space functioned as a site of their everyday experience. Drawing on an archive of women-centered elite vernacular texts, this talk uncovers the structures of feelings and conceptions of selfhood beneath official genealogies and legal statutes, revealing that kinship is as much a textual as a social practice.

Speaker

Ksenia Chizhova (left) is Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Cultural Studies at Princeton University. Her first book, Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is situated at the intersection of the history of emotions, family, and scriptural practices in Korea, from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. Now in progress, her second manuscript project traces the shifts in contexts and infrastructure of graphic media that shaped the visual aesthetics of the Korean script, from the 17th century calligraphic practice to the contemporary fonts and graphic design in the two Koreas.

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim (right) is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

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5/4 Beyond Civilized and Barbarians: Understanding the Settlement of Chinese Migrants in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Chosŏn Korea

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Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea

Speaker
Adam Bohnet, King’s University College at Western

Moderator
Jisoo M. Kim, GW Institute for Korean Studies

Tuesday, May 4, 2021
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time

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Event Description

Beginning with the Imjin War and continuing through the wars of the Ming-Qing transition in Liaodong, a significant number of Chinese settled in Chosŏn along with Japanese defectors and Jurchen refugees. While it has been common to assume that they would gain advantages from their Chinese origins, in fact their treatment varied a great deal, and Chinese migrants were often viewed with suspicion, and they were administered by the state under the same categories used for Jurchen and Japanese migrants. By exploring a number of examples of Chinese migrants to Chosŏn, this presentation will suggest the need to rethink the assumed Sinocentrism of the Chosŏn state.

Speaker

Adam Bohnet (left) is an Associate Professor in History at King’s University College at Western. He received his MA from Kangwon National University in 2001 and his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2008. He worked at the Research Institute for Korean Studies at Korea University in Seoul before coming to King’s in 2012. His book, Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chosŏn Korea, came out with Hawaii University Press in December, 2020.

Moderator

Jisoo M. Kim (right) is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

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