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KOREA PANELS AND ABSTRACTS

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[ 9 | 30 | 31 | 50 | 71 | 72 | 91 | 92 | 113 | 132 | 153 | 173 | 174 | 192 | 212 ]

 

Session 9
The Northern Region in Korea

Inventing Tradition in Early Modern Korea: Representation of Northern Miryang Pak Lineages in Genealogies, Eugene Y. Park
People and Foreigners: The Northwestern Provinces, 1896–1905, Yumi Moon
Dialect, Orthography and Regional Identity: P’yongan Christians and Korean Spelling Reform, 1903-1933, Ross King
Images of P’yongyang Reflected in Literary Works during the Late Choson Period, Soo-chang Oh

Session 30
Aspects of Premodern Korean Economic and Social History

Power and Famine: Land Tax Exemptions in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea, Anders Karlsson
Water-Weary Kings: Neo-Confucian Perceptions of Water in Choson Korea, Han-Rog Kang
Chinbae: Trade between Guild and Government in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea, Owen Miller
Why Did Korea Fail to Modernise? Views from Economic and Environmental Histories, James Bryant Lewis

Session 31
Individual Papers: South Korea: Culture, Labor, and Corruption

Confucianism in Contestation: The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Post-Confucian Korea, Sungmoon Kim
Pop Music and Cultural Nationalism in South Korea: From "Group Sound" Rock to Jongtong/Hiphop, Pil Ho Kim
Interweaving Lived Experiences, Memory, and Labor Activism: A Case Study of Dong-II Textile Labor Strikes, 1976-1980, Mikyoung Kim
Why a Labor Party in South Korea? Explaining the Rise of the Democratic Labor Party from Comparative Perspective, Yoonkyung Lee
A Comparative Study of Corruption in Korea, Relative to Taiwan and the Philippines, Jong-Sung You

Session 50
The Compilation and Value in Application of the Wagner-Song Munkwa Index of Those Who Passed the Highest State Civil Service Examination in Choson Korea

The Wagner-Song Munkwa Index: Its Creation and the Value of its Use, Man-o Song
The Geography of Power: Career Success and Failure among Chosôn Period Munkwa Examination Passers, Milan Hejtmanek
The Sociological Meaning of Passing the Munkwa Exam: An Application of the Wagner-Song Index, Mee Hae Park

Session 71
The Debates on “Internal Development” Theory: Critical Reflections on Recent Korean Historiography

"Internal Development" Theory and Reform Movements in the Early Modern Period, Chin-Oh Chu
Merchants and Empire: A Critical Examination of “Internal Development” Theory, Seung Ryul Lee
“Internal Development” Theory and the Rise of Protestant Christianity, Albert L. Park
Asianism as an Alternative to Modernity: What “Internal Development” Theory Overlooks, Tae Gyun Park

Session 72
The Question of Women in Colonial Korea

Korean Girl Students Overseas (yoja yuhaksaeng), Hyaeweol Choi
Colonial Modernization and the Rise of Women’s Wage Work, Janice Kim
Café Waitresses in Colonial Korea: From Exoticism to Empowerment, Jennifer Jung-Kim
Gender and the Politics of Consumption in Colonial Korea, Theodore Jun Yoo

Session 91
Women and Confucianism in Premodern Korean Literature

Gender Inversion in Female Hero Fictions of Late Choson, Seung-Ah Lee
Women’s Identity in The Biographies of Faithful Women, Youme Kim
Confucianism: A Hope for Women’s Liberation in Late Choson, Hwa Yeong Wang
Love, Poems, and Women in the Tale of Student Chu, Janet Y. Lee

Session 92
Korean Scholars Look West: Ambiguous Visions of a Protean China

Emperor and Emissary: Emperor Hongwu, Kwon Kun, and the Poetry of Late 14th-Century Diplomacy, Dane Hunter Alston
Seditious Loyalists and Malcontented Remnant Subjects, Adam Bohnet
The Other “Other”: Koryo Visions of Manchuria, Remco Erik Breuker
Yulgok's Vision of China: Finding a Korean Confucian Way, Isabelle Sancho

Session 113
The Role of Civil Society in South Korea’s Citizen-Centered Democracy

Democratization and Civil Society: The "Anti-Candidate Movement", Civil Organizations, and Coalition Break-up during the Kim Dae-Jung Administration, Youngmi Kim
The South Korean Anti-candidate Civil Movements History: Consequences Concerning the Recruitment of National Assembly Members and Political Professionalism under Democratizing Process, Marie-Orange Rive-Lasan
The Impact of NGOs on the Enactment of the Social Welfare Act, Antonio Fiori
Who Leads South Korea’s Civil Society Movement? Focused on the Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) and the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), Hyung-A Kim

Session 132
Korea and the Han Commanderies: Space, Interaction, and the Emergence of States

Reassessing the Historical Geography of Han’s Commanderies in Korea, Mark E. Byington
Koguryo’s Foreign Policies in the Fourth Century and Its Administration of the Lelang and Daifang Regions, HoKyu Yeo
Rethinking and Redating: the Samguk sagi's Representation of Paekche's Relations with the Chinese Commanderies, Jonathan Best

Session 153
Continuation and Change in Koryo and Choson

Confucian Burial Practices in the Koryo Period, Charlotte Horlyck
Genealogy Succession and Marriage in Koryo and Choson, Sangkuk Lee
Changes in Families’ Social Position as Reflected in Marriage Relationships of the Choson Dynasty, Byung-giu Son
Social Changes Reflected in Monastic Life, from Late Silla to Early Choson, Sem Vermeersch

Session 173
Hwang Chini in Word and Image

The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: Hwang Chini in Korean Cinema, Hyangsoon Yi
The Metamorphoses of Hwang Chini into Ever-Popular Feminine Beauty: An Industrial Analysis of Consumption and Production Patterns in South Korea, Hana Lee
The Shijo and Hanshi of Hwang Chini, Kevin O'Rourke
Hwang Chini Unveiled: Fleshing Out a Cultural Icon in Ch'oe Inho's "Hwang Chini 1" and "Hwang Chini 2", Bruce E. Fulton

Session 174
Individual Papers: Korea - Historical and Cultural Issues

Early Korean Women Sen through Silla’s Royal Successions, Chizuko T. Allen
Engaging the Late Ming in Chosôn Korea: China and Civilization from a Historical Perspective, Jeong-il Lee
A Comparison of the Interpretations of the Analects by Tasan in the Practical Learning in the Choson Dynasty and Dazai Shundai in the Study of the Past in Tokugawa Japan, Hongkyung Kim
The Christian “College Question” in the Colonial Korea, 1910-1919, Sung-Deuk Oak
The Origins of Liturgical Patriotism: Shintoist Dramatization of the Statist Cult and the North Korean Endogenization, Jin-Ha Kim

Session 192
Mt. Baekdu: Cultural Understanding of an East Asian Border

Description of Mt. Baekdu and Its Significance in Korean Classical Literature, Ik Cheol Shin
Korean Intellectuals’ Travelogues of Mt. Baekdu in the 1920s and Their Historical Significance, Hyungdae Lee
Non-Koreans' Perceptions of Mt. Baekdu during the Pre-modern Period, Yoong-hee Jo

Session 212
Shaping Hearts and Minds: Korean Christianity and Educational Ideologies in the Early Twentieth Century

Conflict over Catholic Educational Policy in the Late Choson Dynasty, Franklin Rausch
"To Determine Our Own Course": The Wilsonian Moment, Korean Protestant Students, and the Independence Movement, 1919-1945, Anne S. Choi
Fetters Old and New: Women's Education in Early Korean Protestantism, Chong Bum Kim