Korea
American women missionaries enjoy unique status as pioneers who introduced “modern” womanhood to Korea in the late 19th century when they established schools and hospitals specifically for girls and women for the first time in Korean history. Yet very few research studies have examined how American missionary women themselves perceived “modern” womanhood, and more importantly, how their own understanding of the modern intersected with western modernity, Confucian gender ideology, and Korean nationalism in the face of Japanese colonial expansion at the turn of the twentieth century. Locating...
This paper examines “woman,” the term itself, and the ways in which the topics regarding women were used in colonial Korean publications from the 1920s and 30s. With a view to exploring a colonially refracted trajectory of representing women in modern Korea, it discusses the inseparability of the salient appearances of “woman” in publications from the complex consequences of censorship, arguing that a study of representations of modern gender in Korea should include a methodological consideration of the dynamics of colonial censorship and counter-censorship strategies deployed by producers of...
The ten oldest wooden buildings in East Asia are in Japan, four of them at the monastery Horyuji. Less well-known and less well-documented than Japan’s buildings of the sixth and seventh centuries are China’s ten earliest wooden buildings, dated late eighth to early tenth century. Even less is known about Korea’s first centuries of Buddhist architecture. This talk explores extant architecture, archaeological evidence, and literary descriptions to determine what we really know about the first centuries of Buddhist architecture in East Asia and if longstanding notions of its major monuments...
This paper explores the literary representation of intellectuals and workers in prose fiction written by labor activists in the late 1980s and early 1990s in South Korea. Written and published at the onset of the demise of the minjung project as a vibrant social and political movement, these novels by and large reflect on the intellectuals’ relationship with workers in what is known as the “worker-intellectual alliance” of the 1980s. The paper argues that these novels also function as “revolutionary words,” calling into existence the subjecthood of working class as a transparent reflection of...
Gandhara, the ancient region corresponding to modern northern Pakistan and adjoining areas of Afghanistan, has been a major cultural crossroads throughout history, serving, for example, as the main node for the transmission of Buddhism from its Indian homeland to Central and East Asia. Our knowledge of the history, literature and culture of Gandhara in its most flourishing period, around the first three centuries of the Common Era, has been vastly enhanced by the discovery within the last few years of important new inscriptions, and especially of large numbers of Buddhist manuscripts. The new...
at the Associate for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: James Benn (Arizona State University) Daniela Berti (CNRS, Paris) William Bodiford (University of California - Los Angeles) Robert Brown (University of California - Los Angeles) Jinhua Chen (University of British Columbia) Bernard Faure (Stanford University) Robert Gimello (Harvard University) Phyllis Granoff (Yale University) Paul Groner (University of Virginia) Valerie Hansen (Yale University) Stanley Insler (Yale University) Edward Kamens (Yale University) Donald Lopez (University of Michigan) Donald McCallum (University of California - Los Angeles) D. Moerman (...
This paper seeks to analyze two recent South Korean films, The President’s Barber (Hyojadong Ibalsa, 2004) and The President’s Last Bang (Kuttae ku saramdul, 2005) that depict the historical period during which Park Chung Hee ruled as a dictator. It considers how the particular kinds of post-realist, multiplex-driven contemporary Korean cinema produce simulations of history where the coherent unity of the sign constantly is undermined. The paper’s ultimate aim is to evaluate narrative cinema’s effectiveness in its dealing with public memory, fascism, and self-referential modernist agenda.
The President’s Barber (Hyojadong Ibalsa, 2004, 116 min.) won for Director Im Chan-sang Im won the Best Director and Audience Awards at last year’s Tokyo Film Festival.
Come enjoy the fun and celebrate the official launch of the NEW CEAS WEBSITE and E-ASSISTED PLANNING
Performance by UNITY Korean Percussion & Dance Troupe of Yale University, as part of the CEAS Fall Welcome Reception (Reception to follow performance)
Reception (following UNITY performance)
Conversations and student presentations on 2004 summer travel, study, internships, and research in Greater China, Japan, and Korea.
In celebration of 2005 - Year of the Rooster
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