|
JUNE 10, 2008 |
|
Tuesday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Stephen Epstein,
Director, Asian Studies
Institute, Victoria University
of Wellington, New
Zealand |
Yellow Dust Blows East:
Contemporary South Korean Images of China
|
Dr
Stephen
Epstein
is
Director
of
the
Asian
Studies
Institute
and
the
Asian
Studies
Programme
at
the
Victoria
University
of
Wellington
in
New
Zealand.
He
has
published
widely
on
contemporary
Korean
literature
and
society,
and
is
currently
working
on a
book
exploring
how
globalization
is
transforming
Korean
identity
and
co-editing
a
volume
on
China-Korea
relations.
He
has
also
translated
several
pieces
of
Korean
and
Indonesian
fiction,
including
Yang
Gui-ja's
Contradictions
(Cornell
East
Asia
Series)
and
was
a
Translator
in
Residence
with
the
Korean
Literature
Translation
Institute
in
Seoul
during
2007.
The
documentary
he
co-produced
with
Timothy
Tangherlini
,
Our
Nation:
A
Korean
Punk
Rock
Community,
has
featured
in
numerous
international
festivals.
2007
marked
the
fifteenth
anniversary
of
diplomatic
ties
between
China
and
South
Korea.
The
speed
with
which
the
two
countries
have
developed
a
web
of
ties
in
multiple
spheres
has
surprised
some,
while
others
interpret
the
depth
of
connections
as a
return
to a
''natural''
compatibility
that
experienced
rupture
as a
result
of
Japan's
occupation
of
Korea
and
the
Cold
War
years
that
followed.
And
yet,
centripetal
and
centrifugal
forces
coexist:
despite
multiple
affinities
and
a
popular
discourse
of
mutual
interest
(Korean
media
reports
on,
e.g.,
China's
bewitchment
by
''The
Korean
Wave,''
and
Korea's
preoccupation
with
and
predominance
in
the
study
of
Chinese),
potential
for
intercultural
conflict
and
competition
remains.
Professor
Epstein
analyses
images
of
China
in
contemporary
South
Korea,
drawing
on
television
news,
cyberspace
commentary,
advertisements,
and
books
aimed
at
the
popular
market.
While
Korean
commentators
regularly
point
out
that
China's
size
and
diversity
makes
it
impossible
to
generalize
about
the
country,
patterns
of
thought
do
emerge:
China
as a
living
instantiation
of
Korea's
past;
China
as a
site
for
both
Korean
opportunity
and
self-congratulation
about
its
own
successes;
and
China
as a
country
where
the
''counterfeit''
reigns
supreme.
I
will
consider
the
extent
to
which
reports
on
the
springtime
meteorological
phenomenon
of
the
hwangsa,
the
sands
that
blow
over
Korea
from
the
Gobi
desert,
have
come
to
function
as
an
implicit
metaphor
for
Korean
understanding
of
China:
an
unstoppable
juggernaut
on
its
doorstep
that
brings
pollution
and
poses
a
challenge
to
the
livelihood
and
well-being
of
the
nation.
|
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|
JUNE 2, 2008 |
|
Monday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
David McCann,
Korea Foundation
Professor of Korean
Literature, Department
of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations, and
Director of the Korea
Institute, Harvard
University |
Control as a Theme in Modern Korean Poetry
|
David
R.
McCann,
ICAS,
is
Korea
Foundation
Professor
of
Korean
Literature
in
the
Department
of
East
Asian
Languages
and
Civilizations
as
well
as
Director
of
the
Korea
Institute
at
Harvard
University.
David
is
the
recipient
of
numerous
prizes,
grants,
and
fellowships
including
the
prestigious
Manhae
Prize
in
Arts
and
Sciences
(2004),
the
Daesan
Foundation
Translation
Grant
(1997),
and
the
Korea
P.E.N.
Center
Translation
Prize
(1994).
His
many
books
include
Traveler
Maps:
Poems
by
Ko
Un
(2004),
The
Columbia
Anthology
of
Modern
Korean
Poetry
(2004),
Early
Korean
Literature:
Selections
and
Introductions
(2001),
War
and
Democracy:
A
Comparative
Study
of
the
Korean
War
and
the
Peloponnesian
War
(2001)
and
The
Classical
Moment:
Views
from
Seven
Literatures
(1999).
Not
only
a
renowned
translator
of
major
Korean
poems
but
also
a
well-recognized
poet,
David
has
published
many
poems
in
such
distinguished
media
as
Poetry,
Ploughshares,
Descant,
Runes
and
recently
published
a
chapbook
of
poems
Cat
Bird
Tree
(2005).
His
poem
"David"
was
included
in
the
Pushcart
Prize
Anthology
III.
David's
new
book
of
poems
The
Way
I
Wait
For
You
has
been
accepted
for
publication
by
Codhill
Press
and
will
be
published
this
year.
National
historical
readings
of
modern
Korean
literature
used
to
describe
literary
works
as
expressions
of
the
Korean
people’s
feelings
at
the
tumultuous
and
challenging
events
and
circumstances
of
the
twentieth
century.
First,
the
issue
of
the
modern;
next,
the
Japanese
colonial
occupation;
then
the
division
and
war,
followed
by
decades
of
political
repression.
Yet
however
entangled
in
its
historical
moments,
literature
is
not
a
passive
reflector;
but
what
sorts
of
interventions
can
be
deployed
to
pry
it
loose?
This
presentation
is
part
of a
project
exploring,
among
other
things,
the
practice
and
the
trope
of
control
as
thematic
in a
modern
Korean
poetry.
Was
French
literature
translated
into
Korean
and
read
because
is
was
French?
Or
because
it
offered
a
model
of a
certain
type
of
control?
Control
of
language?
Control
of
income?
Control
for
the
self,
or
at
least
the
potential
for
a
claim
on
autonomy?
But
how
is
control
to
be
demonstrated?
On
whose
terms?
Where
did
Korean
roads
lead,
and
how
was
a
walk
in a
park,
or
attendance
at a
wrestling
match,
like
the
reading
of a
poem?
|
MAY 28, 2008 |
|
Wednesday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Pak
Sunyoung,
Professor, Seoul
National University and
Korea Studies Visiting
Scholar |
Height
and Standard of Living in North Korea
1930s-1980s
|
Dr.
Sunyoung
Pak
is a
Visiting
Scholar
at
the
Jackson
School’s
Center
for
Korea
Studies
and
an
Associate
Professor
in
the
College
of
Social
Sciences
at
Seoul
National
University.
She
received
her
Ph.D.
from
the
Anthropology
Department
of
the
State
University
of
New
York
at
Buffalo
in
1995.
Her
research
areas
include
women
and
family
in
North
and
South
Korea
and
North
East
Asia.
North Korean adult refugees who arrived in South Korea
during
the
period
of
year
1997
to
year
2007
are
analyzed
to
assess
the
changes
in
the
biological
standard
of
living
in
North
Korea
from
1930s
to
1980s.
Adult
refugees
are
grouped
by
birth
decade
and
the
age-adjusted
mean
heights
of
these
groups
are
analyzed
by
dummy
regression.
In
contrast
to
the
population
of
South
Korea,
as
well
as
to
that
of
most
of
the
rest
of
the
world,
North
Koreans
did
not
experience
a
steady
increase
in
physical
stature
from
1930s
to
1980s.
The
divergence
between
the
heights
of
North
and
South
Koreans
began
among
the
birth
cohorts
of
the
year
1945-1954
and
became
increasingly
pronounced
thereafter.
This
is
an
indication
of
the
adverse
socio-economic
circumstances
prevailing
in
the
northern
part
of
the
Korean
Peninsula.
There
has
been
a
popular
“belief”
among
South
Korean
intellectuals
that
up
to
1970s
North
Koreans
enjoyed
better
living
standards
than
South
Koreans.
Although
the
results
of
this
study
do
not
support
this
long-held
“belief,”
a
piece
of
evidence
to
contextualize
such
a
claim
is
found
in
the
male
height
trend.
Even
though
males
born
in
the
1970s
were
not
significantly
taller
than
those
born
in
all
the
preceding
decades,
they
were
taller
than
those
born
in
the
1960s
or
in
the
1980s.
However,
judging
from
the
trend
in
the
longitudinal
shift
in
height
in
totality,
it
is
very
likely
that
the
improvement
in
living
conditions
in
the
1970s
in
North
Korea
was
short-lived
and
modest
in
degree
at
best.
|
MAY 16, 2008 |
|
Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Communications 226 |
|
Dr. Mark Peterson,
Asian and Near Eastern
Languages, Head, Korean
Section,
Brigham Young
University |
|
How did Korea get its History Backwards?: a New History for
Korea in the New Century |
Mark
Peterson
received
his
B.A.
in
Asian
Studies
and
Anthropology
from
Brigham
Young
University
in
1971.
He
received
his
M.A.
in
1973
and
his
Ph.D.
in
1987,
both
from
Harvard
University
in
the
field
of
East
Asian
Languages
and
Civilization.
Prior
to
coming
to
BYU
in
1984
he
was
the
director
of
the
Fulbright
program
in
Korea
from
1978
to
1983.
He
also
served
as
the
President
of
the
Korea
Pusan
Mission
from
1987
to
1990.
He
has
been
the
coordinator
of
the
Asian
Studies
Program
and
was
the
director
of
the
undergraduate
programs
in
the
David
M.
Kennedy
Center
for
International
Studies.
He
is
currently
the
head
of
the
Korean
section
of
the
department.
George
Orwell
said
that
he
who
owns
the
present,
owns
the
past.
In
Korea,
the
twentieth
century
present
was
one
captured
in
the
so-called
old
saying,
"When
whales
fight,
shrimp
get
their
backs
broken."
This
saying
--
not
really
that
old
--
in
part
of
an
image
of
Korea
as a
powerless
victim,
and
the
Korean
historical
narrative
has
been
one
of
war,
chaos
and
invasion.
As
Korea
becomes
a
more
powerful
nation,
will
the
national
narrative
change?
Will
the
orthodox
history
re-imagine
itself
as
something
different?
This
presentation
will
examine
alternative
national
histories
possible
in
the
new
century.
|
MAY 5, 2008 |
|
Monday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Dr. Charles Armstrong,
The
Korea Foundation
Associate Professor of
Korean Studies in the
Social Sciences,
Department of History
and the Director of the
Center for Korean
Research, Columbia
University |
|
North Korea
and State Terror |
Charles
Armstrong
(Ph.D.,
University
of
Chicago)
is
The
Korea
Foundation
Associate
Professor
of
Korean
Studies
in
the
Social
Sciences
in
the
Department
of
History
and
the
Director
of
the
Center
for
Korean
Research
at
Columbia
University.
A
specialist
in
the
modern
history
of
Korea
and
East
Asia,
Professor
Armstrong
has
published
several
books
on
contemporary
Korea,
including
The
Koreas
(Routledge,
2007),
The
North
Korean
Revolution,
1945-1950
(Cornell,
2003),
Korea
at
the
Center:
Dynamics
of
Regionalism
in
Northeast
Asia
(M.E.
Sharpe,
2006),
and
Korean
Society:
Civil
Society,
Democracy,
and
the
State
(Routledge,
second
edition
2006),
as
well
as
numerous
journal
articles
and
book
chapters.
His
current
book
projects
include
a
study
of
North
Korean
foreign
relations
in
the
Cold
War
era
and
a
history
of
modern
East
Asia.
Professor
Armstrong
is a
frequent
commentator
in
the
US
and
international
media
on
Korean,
East
Asian,
and
Asian-American
affairs.
One
of
the
outstanding
impediments
in
US-DPRK
relations
is
the
presence
of
North
Korea
on
the
State
Department
list
of
“state
sponsors
of
terrorism.”
North
Korea
has
been
on
this
list
since
1988,
even
though,
according
to
the
State
Department
itself,
the
DPRK
has
not
sponsored
any
terrorist
acts
since
the
bombing
of a
Korean
Airlines
flight
in
1987.
In
the
Six-Party
agreement
of
February
13,
2007,
the
United
States
promised
to
“begin
the
process
of
removing
the
designation
of
the
DPRK
as a
state-sponsor
of
terrorism.”
What
are
the
justifications
for
North
Korea
to
remain
designated
as a
state
that
sponsors
terrorism?
What
in
fact
constitutes
“state-sponsored
terrorism,”
for
the
United
States
and
in
general?
Is
state
terror
only
committed
by
“rogue
nations”
such
as
North
Korea,
or
can
other
states,
including
perhaps
the
US,
be
considered
perpetrators
of
state
terror?
Focusing
on
North
Korea’s
apparent
turn
to
terror
tactics
in
the
1970s
and
1980s,
this
talk
will
explore
the
history
of
North
Korea’s
relationship
to
state
terror
and
the
possibilities
for
moving
beyond
the
stigma
of a
“terror
state”
toward
a
more
normal
relationship
with
the
US
and
the
world.
|
APRIL 22, 2008 |
|
Tuesday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Dr. Seok Gon Cho,
Department of Economics,
Sangji University, South
Korea |
|
Debating Colonial Modernity in Korea:
A
Survey of the Controversies over Socio-economic Change under
Japanese Rule |
During
the
last
thirty
years,
there
has
been
considerable
debate
concerning
the
features
of
socio-economic
change
in
Korea
under
Japanese
rule.
These
controversies
were
initially
sparked
by
the
challenging
argument
that
the
Korean
economy
experienced
a
kind
of
modern
economic
growth
during
the
colonial
period.
More
recently
the
debate
has
turned
to
the
standard
of
living
of
colonial
Koreans.
In
surveying
these
controversies,
this
presentation
has
two
aims.
First,
in
searching
for
the
intellectual
background
of
these
controversies
Dr.
Cho
will
show
that
they
are
related
to
the
path
of
the
prospects
for
the
so-called
‘1987
Regime’
in
South
Korea.
Second,
I
will
provide
my
own
analyses
of
some
of
the
central
points
of
contention
in
these
debates
such
as
the
starting
point
of
modern
economic
growth
in
Korea,
the
standard
of
living
in
colonial
Korea,
and
the
effect
of
colonial
economic
growth
on
the
rapid
development
of
modern
South
Korea.
Co-sponsored
by
the
Japan
Studies
Program
and
East
Asia
Center.
|
FEBRUARY 15, 2008 |
|
Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Jeongsoo Shin,
Doctoral Candidate,
Department of Asian Languages and
Literature,
University of Washington |
|
"Admonition for the
King of Flowers": The Making of King Peony in Korean Literature |
The
tree
peony
(Paeoniaceae
suffruticosa)
or
Mudan
牧丹
was
coronated
the
king
of
the
flowers
in
early
Tang
floriculture
(618-906).
Since
then,
it
has
enjoyed
popularity
in
the
literature
of
China
and
her
neighboring
countries.
In
the
case
of
Korea,
Confucian
writers
created
a
unique
literary
tradition
of a
floral
kingdom,
through
reinventing
the
peony
motif.
Touching
on
this
tradition,
the
presentation
will
focus
on
its
earliest
examplar,
“Admonition
for
the
King
of
Flowers,”
(“Hwawang
gae”
花王戒)
written
by
Sŏl
Ch’ong
薛聰
(b.
655),
a
Confucian
scholar
in
Silla
Dynasty
(94
BCE-935
CE).
This
piece
has
been
conventionally
discussed
as
the
first
adaptation
of
the
peony
motif
in
Korean
literature,
but
few
scholars
have
paid
attention
to
another
Chinese
influence
of
fu
賦,
a
major
literary
form
in
early
medieval
China.
I
will
argue
that
the
subject
of a
prodigal
king
and
his
vassal-adviser
came
from
the
Former
Han
fu
(206
BCE-25
CE),
and
that
personified
flowers
might
be
motivated
by
the
prosopopoeia
of
plants
in
the
Six
Dynasties
(220-589
CE)
fu
on
objects.
Moreover,
all
these
Chinese
elements
comprise
the
author’s
deliberate
scheme
to
avoid
conflict
from
Korean
aristocrats.
The
presentation
will
shed
more
light
on
Sŏl
Ch’ong’s
creation
of a
triangle
relationship
among
the
three
flowers,
reflecting
the
politic
tension
between
the
aristocracy
and
the
king
at
that
time.
If
Peony
King
and
the
Rose
are
metaphors
for
the
authoritarian
monarch
King
Sinmun
and
a
privileged
aristocrat,
respectively,
the
withered
anemone
naturally
represents
the
author
himself,
whose
social
status
handicapped
his
court
life,
despite
his
remarkable
scholarship.
Such
allegorical
competition
among
a
group
of
flowers
is
not
found
in
the
Chinese
literary
tradition;
flowers
were
ordinarily
likened
to
court
ladies
or
sometimes
a
man
of
dignity
in
the
case
of
the
lotus.
Therefore,
the
political
allegory
of a
flower
kingdom
is
the
author’s
unique
achievement
that
will
develop
more
sophistication
in
later
Chosŏn
(1392-1911)
literature.
Co-sponsored
by
the
China
Studies
Program.
|
FEBRUARY 11, 2008 |
|
Monday, 11:00-12:30 pm (*NOTE: TIME
CHANGE*) |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Jiwon Shin,
Associate Professor,
Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures,
University of California
at Berkeley |
|
Collecting Su Shi:
Material Culture and Literati Self-Fashioning in Early
Nineteenth Century Korea |
Jiwon
Shin,
Assistant
Professor,
received
her
Ph.D.
from
the
Department
of
East
Asian
Languages
and
Civilizations
at
Harvard
University
in
2003.
She
specializes
in
Korean
literature
and
culture
from
the
late
Chosôn
period
through
the
modern
era,
focusing
on
issues
of
space
and
identity.
Her
research
interests
include:
intersection
of
literature
and
cartographic
imagination;
conceptions
of
urban
culture
and
literary
coteries;
early
modern
print
culture;
nationalist
aesthetics.
She
is
working
on a
book
manuscript
on
late
18th
and
19th
century
literary
culture
in
Seoul.
She
also
translates
cultural
theories
and
feminist
criticisms
as
well
as
literary
works
from
contemporary
South
Korea.
Although
the
Chinese
writer
Su
Shi
had
always
been
considered
an
important
model
cultural
figure
in
Korea,
the
early
nineteenth
century
fascination
with
him
is
distinctly
linked
to
the
way
in
which
material
possession
became
a
crucial
means
of
fashioning
the
literati
selfhood,
particularly
among
the
emerging
urban
elite
in
Seoul.
The
paper
examines
the
manners
in
which
the
early
nineteenth
century
Korean
writers
used
their
private
collections
of
Su
Shi’s
poetry,
calligraphies,
and
portraits,
as
well
as
the
domestically
produced
duplicates
of
such
texts,
toward
substantiating
their
literati
self-image,
while
imagining
themselves
as
distinct
from
other
urban
consumers.
With
a
case
study
of
these
early
nineteenth
century
writings
on
collecting
Su
Shi,
the
paper
aims
to
consider
the
broader,
underlying
issue
of
the
role
of
material
culture
in
formulating
the
late
Chosŏn
articulation
of
Chinese
literary
tradition
as
property
whose
ownership
can
be
transferred
and
claimed,
as
it
was
reproduced
and
re-performed
in
Korea.
Co-sponsored
by
the
China
Studies
Program.
|
|
JANUARY 14, 2008 |
|
Monday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Hyaeweol Choi, Associate Professor
of Korean Studies,
School of International
Letters and Cultures,
Arizona State University |
|
Competing
Discourses on Modern Womanhood in Transcultural Korea |
The
presentation
focuses
on
the
genealogies
of
the
"modern"
woman
among
Korean
intellectuals
and
American
women
missionaries
within
the
context
of
Korea's
colonization
by
Japan
at
the
turn
of
the
twentieth
century.
Touching
on
some
of
the
major
issues
of
modern
womanhood,
such
as
gender
equality,
education,
participation
in
the
public
sphere,
and
representations
of
gender
in
the
popular
media,
it
discusses
the
dynamic
interplay
between
the
Confucian-prescribed
gender
ideology
of
Korea,
the
nationalistic
desires
for
nation-building
among
Korean
intellectuals,
and
the
Christian
gender
ethics
of
women
missionaries.
The
analysis
emphasizes
both
institutional
and
discursive
endeavors
of
Koreans
and
Americans
in
fashioning
modern
womanhood
in
accord
with
their
own
mandates-either
nationalist,
Christian
or
secular
modern.
In
so
doing,
the
presentation
intends
to
shed
light
on
the
ways
in
which
competing
narratives
on
modern
womanhood
reconfigured
Confucian
gender
ideology
for
the
modern
era
and
also
reveals
the
tensions
that
women
experienced
between
their
newly-found
space
for
emancipation
and
other
forms
of
social
and
political
control
over
their
bodies
and
subjectivities.
|
|
DECEMBER 3, 2007 |
|
Monday, 11:45-1:15 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Ronald Toby, Associate Professor
of History, East Asian
Studies, and
Anthropology, Department
of East Asian Languages
and Cultures, University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign |
|
The
Mountain that Needs No Interpreter: Mt. Fuji and the Engagement
of the Foreign |
Professor
Toby
specializes
in
Premodern
and
early-modern
Japan;
early-modern
popular
culture;
seventeenth-
to
nineteenth-century
Japanese
foreign
relations;
and
intraregional
relations
in
premodern
Asia.
His
current
research
interests
include
the
representations
of
the
foreign
in
popular
culture,
1550-1850;
East
Asian
international
history;
and
village
and
rural
credit.
Selected
publications
include
State
and
Diplomacy
in
Early-Modern
Japan:
Asia
in
the
Development
of
the
Tokugawa
Bakufu
(Princeton
University
Press,
1984;
Stanford
University
Press,
1991);
with
Kuroda
Hideo,
Gyoretsu
to
misemono
(Asahi
Newspaper
Company
Publishing,
1994);
and
"The
Indianness
of
Iberia
and
Changing
Iconographies
of
Other,"
in
Implicit
Understandings:
Observing,
Reporting,
and
Reflecting
on
the
Encounters
between
Europeans
and
Other
Peoples
in
the
Early
Modern
Era,
ed.
Stuart
Schwartz
(Cambridge
University
Press,
1994)
323-351.
Professor
Toby
received
his
doctorate
from
Columbia
University
in
1977.
Mt.
Fuji,
as
likely
as
the
‘rising
sun’
flag
to
call
up
the
image
of
‘Japan’
around
the
world
today,
was
unfamiliar
to
most
Japanese,
except
as
literary
allusion,
before
the
Edo
period.
Mt.
Fuji
arose
as a
nationally
recognized
symbol
of
the
country
only
after
Edo—in
the
shadow
of
the
mountain—became
the
political
center
of
the
country.
The
imagined
foreign/foreigner
was
also
implicated
in
the
mountain’s
revaluation,
however,
and
a
crucial,
enduring
element
of
the
‘new,’
international
Mt.
Fuji
emerged
from
Hideyoshi’s
failed
invasions
of
Korea.
In
this
presentation,
we
examine
the
way
Korea,
Koreans,
and
other
alien
peoples
and
places
were
deployed
in
literary,
visual,
and
performative
dialog
with
Mt.
Fuji,
transforming
the
mountain
into
a
multivalent
ideological
symbol,
both
attractive
and
welcoming,
yet
at
the
same
time
threatening,
aggressive
and
expansionist.
Co-sponsored
by
the
Japan
Studies
Program,
Center
for
Korea
Studies,
and
the
East
Asia
Center.
|
NOVEMBER 30, 2007 |
|
Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm |
|
Thomson Hall, Room 317 |
|
Jeong-il Lee, Co-adjunct Professor,
Foreign Languages and
Humanities, Los Angeles City College |
|
Engaging the Late
Ming in Chosôn
Korea, China and Civilization from a Historical Perspective |
The
discourse
on
civilization
and
the
practice
of
power
relations
continually
overlapped
in
pre-modern
East
Asia
long
before
the
arrival
of
western-style
imperialism.
As
is
well
known,
China
had
been
a
strong
state
sufficient
to
claim
its
geopolitical
dominance
as
the
Great
Imperium
(中國
Zhongguo)
and
cultural
influence
as
the
Center
of
Civilization
(中華
Zhonghua)
vis-à-vis
other
neighboring
areas
of
East
Asia.
Meanwhile,
Chosôn
Korea
(1392-1910)
was
active
in
appropriating
the
Confucian
cultural
policies
to a
civilized
order
of
its
own.
Ming
China
(1368-1644)
sought
peace
with
Chosôn
in
cultural
solidarity
while
downgrading
their
surrounding
Mongolian
and
Manchurian
contenders
to
barbarians.
The
emergence
of
the
Manchurian
Qing
(1644-1911)
China
did
little
to
disfigure
the
above
regional
dynamics
linking
(geo-)
politics
and
civilization.
In
this
context,
I
explore
how
the
Chosôn
court
and
elites
re-imagined
the
historicity
of
their
own
Confucian
tradition
by
valorizing
the
erstwhile
Ming,
and
consolidated
their
dominance,
based
on
the
traditional
status
system,
over
Chosôn
against
the
rest
of
the
Chosôn
society
as
well
as
Qing
China.
Instead
of
the
top-down
paradigm
of
Chinese
originality
versus
non-Chinese
replication,
my
presentation
illuminates
the
degree
to
which
the
pre-modern
Korean
ruling
elites
were
able
to
channel
the
influence
of
the
Sino-centric
world
system
and
the
Confucian
civilization
into
the
enhancement
of
their
state
legitimacy
and
cultural
progress
in
the
post-Ming
era.
This
will
capture
one
of
the
manners
in
which
diverse
human
agencies
outside
of
China
fashioned
a
non-Chinese
dimension
of
Pax
Sinica
and
Sinophile
trend
in
order
to
justify
their
practical
engagements.
|
|
OCTOBER 22, 2007 |
|
Monday, 12:30-1:30 pm |
|
William H. Gates Hall, Room 115 |
|
Professor Kuk Cho,
College of Law, Seoul
National
University, Korea |
|
Critical
Controversies in Korean Criminal Law |
Criminal
law
in
post-democratization
Korea
has
been
fraught
with
controversy.
There
are
at
least
three
major
areas
of
division
reflecting
conflicting
views
in
the
areas
of
morality,
gender
and
politics.
First,
Korean
criminal
law
is
moralistic,
including
with
respect
to
the
criminalization
of
adultery
and
soft-core
pornography.
Second,
the
law
is
male-centered,
including
with
respect
to
rape
law.
Third,
Korean
criminal
law
is
state-dominated;
examples
include
the
National
Security
Act
and
the
criminalization
of
conscientious
objection
to
military
service.
A
critical
examination
of
these
characteristics
of
Korean
criminal
law
will
reveal
valuable
lessons
for
Korea
and
other
newly
democratized
societies.
The
Asian
Law
Center
of
the
University
of
Washington
School
of
Law
is
pleased
to
host
Professor
Kuk
Cho
of
Seoul
National
University’s
College
of
Law,
for
an
presentation
and
discussion
of
these
issues.
Prof.
Cho
has
written
and
published
extensively
on
Korean
criminal
law
and
other
legal
issues
in
both
the
U.S.
and
Korea.
Prof.
Cho
obtained
his
S.J.D.
and
L.L.M.
degrees
from
the
University
of
California
at
Berkeley,
and
L.L.M.
and
L.L.B.
degrees
from
Seoul
National
University.
For
additional
information,
please
contact
Prof.
Yong-Sung
Jonathan
Kang
(jonakang@u.washington.edu | | |