Book Talk Series on Chosŏn Korea, Beyond Civilized and Barbarians

Founded in the year 2016, the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) is a university wide Institute housed in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. The establishment of the GWIKS in 2016 was made possible by a generous grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). The mission of GWIKS is to consolidate, strengthen, and grow the existing Korean studies program at GW, and more generally in the greater D.C. area and beyond. The Institute enables and enhances productive research and education relationships within GW, and among the many experts throughout the region and the world.

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

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.Registered guests will receive the following confirmation email with details for joining the virtual event.This event is on the record and open to the public.Win a book giveaway! We will send one hard copy of <a href="https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42389" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the book</a> to one of the guests who submit their questions during the event!

<h3>Speaker</h3>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.

<h3>Moderator</h3>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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