Jeongsoo Shin
Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian Studies and Religious Studies (August 2019 - June 2020)
Institution:
The Academy of Korean Studies
Areas of interest :
Sino-Korean Literature; Comparative Literature; Translation Studies
Region:
China, Korea
Jeongsoo Shin received his Ph.D in pre-modern Korean and Chinese literature from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2011. He studies garden culture in Korea and China, and is currently focused on miniature rocks, an aesthetic object appreciated among literati. With an eye to national borders, regional identity, and modes of circulation, Professor Shin scrutinizes the emergence of Korean connoisseurship of rocks, which culminated in the nineteenth century as a result of the interaction between indigenous Korean culture and Chinese influence. His research contributes to an understanding of Sino-Korean cultural exchange, East Asian material culture, the relationship between man and natural objects, and man in the realm of nature.