[KS] [GWIKS] Premodern Korea Lecture Series with Masato Hasegawa [04/25]

Mon Apr 3 13:17:35 EDT 2023

*The Premodern Korea Lecture Series*

*“Politics of Geography and Transport in the Qing-Chosŏn Borderland"*
*Masato Hasegawa*

Assistant Professor
Department of History, National Taiwan University

*Tuesday, April 25th, 202309:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT)    Virtual Event via Zoom*
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*Event Description*
*“Politics of Geography and Transport in the Qing-Chosŏn Borderland"*

This presentation traces the late Chosŏn discourse on roads and carts and
examines the interplay between transport, the environment, and historical
memory. Drawing on writings of Chosŏn scholars on the use of roads and
carts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Dr. Hasegawa will
discuss the manner in which scholars formulated policy proposals concerning
infrastructure and transport in late Chosŏn Korea. Among the scholars who
put forward such proposals, he will pay particular attention to Kim Yuk
(1580-1658) and Pak Chega (1750-1805), both of whom travelled through the
Sino-Korean borderland and personally observed the terrain of Korea’s
northwest and Manchuria. They strongly advocated for adopting Chinese carts
as a means of transporting loads inside Korea and sharply criticized those
at the Chosŏn court who asserted that wheeled vehicles were ill-suited to
Korea’s mountainous terrain. By analyzing writings of Chosŏn scholars such
as Kim Yuk and Pak Chega, this presentation will not only highlight the
roles of the state that they saw in matters of infrastructure and
transport. It will also assess the significance of historical memory, both
in their formulation of proposals relating to infrastructure and transport
and in the views of their opponents.
*Speaker*
*Masato Hasegawa*
*Masato Hasegawa *is an Assistant Professor of History at National Taiwan
University, where he teaches courses in Korean, East Asian, and
environmental history. He specializes in the history of technology and the
environment in early modern East Asia, and his current research focuses on
the intersections of bureaucratic knowledge, war mobilization, and ecology
in the Sino-Korean borderland from the 16th to the 18th century.
*Moderator*
*Jisoo M. Kim*
*Jisoo M. Kim *is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History,
International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She
currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and
the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also
serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a
specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader
research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice,
forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of
emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of *The
Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn
Korea* (University
of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize
of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of *The
Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation* by JaHyun Kim
Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a
book project tentatively entitled *Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered
Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea.* She received her M.A.,
M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia
University.
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September 28, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT.
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