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<div style="display:none!important">Meet the authors of the recently published books on Chosŏn Korea!</div>
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<h1 style="display:block;font-size:30px;font-weight:bold;margin:0;line-height:1.3;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;font-size:100%;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:normal;color:#333;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;font-size:100%;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:normal;color:#333;line-height:23.5px"><span style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,64,101)"><strong>Vernacular Eloquence of Chosŏn Korea Beyond the Korean Script</strong></span><br></h1><div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:18.2px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div>
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<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:18.2px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">In this presentation, Si Nae Park introduces her book </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><em>The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia University, 2020)</em></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">, the first book in the English language on the late Chosŏn literary genre of yadam. The presentation has two components. First, Park highlights key points of her book: how the culture of eighteenth-century Seoul as the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time, and how yadam narratives spread in the late Chosŏn culture of texts. Next, Park discusses the book’s implication as a research project that extricates the genre of yadam from the nation-centered literary historiography (</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><em>kungmunhak</em>) of the 20th century and puts forward a need to consider vernacular eloquence beyond the Korean script and script-focused linguistic nationalism.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:23.5px"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Speaker: George Kallander</b><br>Associate Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University</span><br> </span></div>
<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:18.2px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-size:14px"><br><b>Monday, March 29, 2021<br>2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time</b><br><br></span><span style="font-size:14px">Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. Chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack, the scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu assault in his <i>Diary of 1636</i> (<i>Pyŏngjarok</i>). Partly composed as a narrative of the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender. Based on his new book <i>The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea</i>  (Columbia University Press, 2020), George Kallander will discuss the Korean response to the Manchu attacks and the relevance of the diary to readers in Chosŏn and contemporary times.</span></span></div>
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<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:17px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-size:14px">Assistant Professor in Korean Studies at Emory University</span></span></div>
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<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:18.2px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Speaker: Ksenia Chizhova</b></span></span></div>
<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:18.2px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-size:14px">Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Cultural Studies at Princeton University</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></span></div>
<div class="m_-8047703060925640120e2ma-p-div" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;line-height:18.2px;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span><b><span style="text-align:justify">Thursday, April 22, 2021</span><br><span style="text-align:justify">9:00 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time</span></b></span></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><br><br>Violence and bloody family feuds constitute the core of the so-called lineage novels (<i>kamun sosŏl</i>) that circulated in Chosŏn Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Such subject matter becomes ever more puzzling when we consider that the main audience for these texts were elite women of Korea, who were subjected to exacting comportment standards and domestic discipline. Coeval with the rise and fall of Korean patrilineal kinship, these texts depict the genealogical subject—emotional self socialized through the structures of prescriptive kinship, but kinship itself is treated as a series of conflicts between genders and generations.</span></span></span></div>
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