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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">For anyone who would like to attend the funeral for Cappy Hurst, it will be
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">on July 15th at 2</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">pm at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 313 Pine St</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">reet, Philadelphia.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">If anyone wishes to send a card of condolence, the family home address is:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Hurst Family</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">437 Spruce St.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Philadelphia, PA 19106 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">You can also write to</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Cappy’s sons</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Mark Hurst at
<a href="mailto:hurst.mark@gmail.com">hurst.mark@gmail.com</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Ian Hurst at <a href="mailto:ian@hurstconstructioninc.com">ian@hurstconstructioninc.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">You</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">rs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Gene Park</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Eugene Y. Park<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ealc/people/eugene-y-park<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreanstudies.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Park, Eugene Y.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 06, 2016 2:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KS] Obituary: Cappy Hurst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A colleague of mine, Linda Chance of the U. of Pennsylvania, asked me to post this obituary. Although perhaps not widely known among younger Koreanists, late G. Cameron "Cappy" Hurst III, also of the U. of Pennsylvania, was a key figure
in laying the foundation for Korean Studies in the US.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gene<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eugene Y. Park<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ealc/people/eugene-y-park">https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ealc/people/eugene-y-park</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">G. Cameron Hurst III, 75, historian of Japan and Korea, passed away on June 30, 2016 in Philadelphia.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Born May 7, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, “Cappy,” as we all knew him, had an almost unparalleled depth and variety of experience in his active life, at both his U.S. homes and in Asia. Cappy’s
career culminated in a fifteen-year tenure as Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies<span style="color:red">
</span>and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. When he arrived in 1995, recruited by the late William R. LaFleur, the department was called Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Cappy became the first chair of the newly
formed East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2005, which since has almost doubled in size on the groundwork that he so tirelessly laid. Cappy took the lead in energizing East Asian studies at Penn, which grew in Chinese and Japanese social sciences and
moved toward critical mass in Korean studies from his efforts. He was known for this dynamism in program development: initially having joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in 1969 before he was thirty, Cappy spent two decades there as Professor of
History and East Asian studies, becoming director of KU’s Center for East Asian Studies as well as chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Cappy was a prolific scholar. His study
<i>Insei: </i></span><i><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">,
<i>1086-1185</i>, published by Columbia University Press in 1976, </span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">is still widely consulted in the field. In addition to his focus on the institutional history of medieval Japan, he was a leading scholar of the
martial arts, publishing <i>Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery</i> with Yale University Press in 1998. His essays, such as a chapter on
</span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">“The Kōbu Polity: Court-Bakufu Relations in Kamakura Japan,” in Jeffrey Mass’
<i>Court and Bakufu in Japan</i> (Yale University Press, 1982), “Death, Honor, and Loyalty: The Bushidō Ideal,” (<i>Philosophy East and
</i>West, 1990), and “The Warrior as Ideal for a New Age,” in <i>The Origins of Japan’s Medieval
</i>World, edited by Jeffrey P. Mass (Stanford University Press, 1997), contributed substantially to the reconsideration of Japanese history. He also published translations from the Japanese. Hurst’s essay “<i>Kugyō
</i>and<i> Zuryō</i>: Center and Periphery in the Era of Fujiwara no Michinaga”<i>
</i>for <i>Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries</i>, a volume from a conference for which he was part of the planning committee, came out from University of Hawai’i Press as recently as 2007.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">Cappy was dedicated to analyzing and even intervening in contemporary history as well, often publishing opinion pieces in news outlets such as the
<i>Korea Times</i>, the <i>Japan Times</i>, and the <i>Asian Wall Street Journal</i>, as well as contributing to and advising media outlets in the United States. (His charisma far outpaced that of the stereotypical professor.) He was one of only a few academics
who could speak to both Japanese and Korean audiences, having acquired subject knowledge and facility in Korean language that nearly matched his prodigious skills in Japanese.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">Education outside the university was a keen interest of his: he helped all kinds of groups to a better understanding of and enthusiasm for Japan and East Asia.
</span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Cappy founded and led teachers from middle and high schools to Japan in 1997 on the first Phila-Nipponica program, which over the course of eighteen years introduced 160 teachers from the greater Philadelphia
area to Japan and then guided them in the production of curricular materials, so as to have an impact on over 50,000 students. He also led the Japan Seminar, a program that similarly selected college and university professors who were not Japan specialists
from around the nation and enabled them to add courses about Japan to their institutions’ curricula.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Intellectually restless, he served as a
</span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle in the early 1980s, a Faculty Associate for Universities Field Staff International, on the Semester at Sea program, at teaching
positions in Seoul, and as the Japan Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.
</span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Equally energetic and skillful as an administrator, Cappy spent terms directing the Associated Kyoto Program housed at Dōshisha University,</span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">
held a directorship at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, and was Dean at CUNY Lehman Hiroshima College from 1990 to 1992. He was a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">A passionate and rigorous teacher, Cappy was known for a touch of salt-of-the-earth and a sense of humor that drew many to the study of East Asia. He put students through their paces in reading
sources and analyzing terms, and he made names and dates come alive with his dramatic lecture style. In his later career, he taught unique seminars at Penn on North Korea as well as the Occupation of Japan.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Cappy’s own journey in the field began at Stanford University, from which he graduated with a B.A. in History and Japanese in 1963. He took his M.A. in East Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i
in 1966, and then headed to East Asian Language and Cultures at Columbia University, completing his Ph.D. in 1972 after study at the Stanford Center, Keio University, the University of Kyoto, and the University of Tokyo, making many connections along the way
that he never let go. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">The late Fukushima Keidō rōshi, head of the Tōfukuji Zen sect headquartered in Kyoto, toured the U.S. annually, including KU and later Penn at Cappy’s invitation. The master always joked that when
he was first introduced to Haasuto-sensei (as Dr. Hurst was pronounced in Japanese), so rapid-fire was Cappy’s spoken Japanese that he thought people were calling him Faasuto-sensei (Dr. Speedy). Kamikawa Rikuzō, the legendary tutor of generations of Japanologists,
referred to Haasuto-kun as the Shinkansen, the speeding bullet train of linguists.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">The wide web of those who felt privileged to know Cappy is attested in the festschrift organized in his honor by the distinguished historian Karl Friday,
<i>Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1830</i> (Westview Press, 2012). Friday notes the scores of symposia and conference panels and guest lectures that Cappy organized or delivered, and his mentorship of hundreds of students and junior colleagues, concluding
that “It would be no exaggeration to say that there are very few students or scholars of Japan whose lives and work have not been touched by Cappy’s efforts.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">An avid golfer and fan of basketball at the University of Kansas with a love of Bobby Flay’s burgers, Cappy had barely given a thought to retiring to pursue such distractions when a series of illnesses
sidelined him in 2007. He began to write a memoir of sorts on a series of yellow pads, though this was not completed. Anyone who was fortunate enough to visit Cappy in his last days found him still possessed of an iron grip and a reluctance to let us go.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";color:black;background:white">Cappy is survived by his wife, Nayop (“Chini”) Hurst of Philadelphia, their son, musician and composer Mark Hurst of New York City, and their daughter, feminist artist
Dylan Mira of Los Angeles, California, as well as by his first wife Carol Hurst and their son architect-builder Ian Hurst of Lawrence, Kansas, Ian’s wife Hannah and three grandchildren in Lawrence, Henry Hurst, Annabelle Hurst, and Theodore Hurst, and a brother,
Stuart Hurst of Denver, Colorado. </span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">We lost a great scholar and a good friend, but we take some solace imagining him golfing the links in Hawai’i at last.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Philadelphia, July 5, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Linda Chance</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">East Asian Languages and Civilizations</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">University of Pennsylvania</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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