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제목: Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chosun Korea
일시: 2023년 5월 26일 금요일, 10:00 - 12:00
저자: Adam Bohnet (UWO)
사회: 조일수 (교토대학/규장각)
토론: 한승현 (건국대), 한상우 (아주대)

본 특강은 영어로 진행되는 온라인 행사입니다. 사전등록 링크를 통해 참가신청을 해주시면 행사 하루 전에 Zoom 접속링크를 보내드립니다.
- 링크: https://forms.gle/2unGYJPS4eNene4j9

기타 문의사항은 icks@snu.ac.kr (Tel. 02-880-9378)로 연락주시기 바랍니다.


Dear All,

The International Center for Korean Studies of the Kyujanggak Institute is hosting a Book Talk series, introducing Adam Bohnet’s Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chos?n Korea.

Title: Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chos?n Korea
Date: May 26 (Friday) 10:00 - 12:00 (Seoul)
Author: Adam Bohnet (UWO)
Moderator: Ilsoo Cho (Kyoto Univ./Kyujanggak)
Discussants: Seung hyun Han (Konkuk Univ.), Sangwoo Han (Ajou University)

About the Author:
Adam Bohnet received his MA degree at Kangwon National University and his PhD degree at the University of Toronto. After several years of employment as teacher and researcher at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Research Institute of Korean Studies in Seoul, he was hired by his current job in the Department of History at King’s University College at Western University in Ontario. His book, Turning Toward Edification: Foreigners in Choson Korea, was published with Hawaii University Press in 2020.

About the Book:
Turning toward Edification discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chos?n in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe Chos?n Korea as a monocultural and homogeneous state, Adam Bohnet reveals the considerable presence of foreigners and people of foreign ancestry in Chos?n Korea as well as the importance to the Chos?n monarchy of engagement with the outside world. These foreigners included Jurchens and Japanese from border polities that formed diplomatic relations with Chos?n prior to 1592, Ming Chinese and Japanese deserters who settled in Chos?n during the Japanese invasion between 1592 and 1598, Chinese and Jurchen refugees who escaped the Manchu state that formed north of Korea during the early seventeenth century, and even Dutch castaways who arrived in Chos?n during the mid-1700s. Foreigners were administered by the Chos?n monarchy through the tax category of “submitting-foreigner” (hyanghwain). This term marked such foreigners as uncivilized outsiders coming to Chos?n to receive moral edification and they were granted Korean spouses, Korean surnames, land, agricultural tools, fishing boats, and protection from personal taxes. Originally the status was granted for a limited time, however, by the seventeenth century it had become hereditary.
Beginning in the 1750s foreign descendants of Chinese origin were singled out and reclassified as imperial subjects (hwangjoin), giving them the right to participate in the palace-sponsored Ming Loyalist rituals. Bohnet argues that the evolution of their status cannot be explained by a Confucian or Sinocentric enthusiasm for China. The position of foreigners?Chinese or otherwise?in Chos?n society must be understood in terms of their location within Chos?n social hierarchies. During the early Chos?n, all foreigners were clearly located below the sajok aristocracy. This did not change even during the eighteenth century, when the increasingly bureaucratic state recategorized Ming migrants to better accord with the Chos?n state’s official Ming Loyalism. These changes may be understood in relation to the development of bureaucratized identities in the Qing Empire and elsewhere in the world during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and as part of the vernacularization of elite ideologies that has been noted elsewhere in Eurasia.

The event will be held online via Zoom. The link for Zoom meeting will be sent a day before the event after your registration is confirmed
- Register: https://forms.gle/2unGYJPS4eNene4j9

Please contact icks@snu.ac.kr (Tel. 02-880-9378) for more information.