[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 31, Issue 12

Tue Jan 17 13:23:09 EST 2006

Although this is not my field either, something useful may be found in:

McCann, David R. "Formal and Informal Korean Society: A Reading of Kisaeng Songs." In Korean Women: View from the Inner Room, edited by Laurel Kendall and Mark Peterson, 129-38. Cushing, ME: East Rock Press, 1983.

David Rands
PhD student
Department of History
University of Southern California

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>   1. Kisaeng (Pete Morriss)
>   2. Re: Kisaeng (Jennifer Jung-Kim)
>   3. Re: Kisaeng (J.Scott Burgeson)
>   4. Re: Kisaeng (kevin parks)
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:09:34 +0000
> From: Pete Morriss <pete.morriss at nuigalway.ie>
> Subject: [KS] Kisaeng
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> Dear All,
> 	Intrigued by all the publicity about the filming of Memoirs 
> of a Geisha, one of my students asked me if she could find out more 
> about the Korean equivalent.  That's outside my main field, so I 
> immediately thought of this list.  Does anybody know of anything - 
> fiction, non-fiction, film, or whatever - that might give an 
> insight 
> into the lives of kisaeng?  Unfortunately, only English-language 
> sources would be of any use in this case.
> 	Many thanks,
>        	Pete Morriss
> 
> 
> 
> Pete Morriss (Dr.)
> Department of Political Science and Sociology,
> National University of Ireland, Galway
> Ireland
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:51:08 -0800
> From: Jennifer Jung-Kim <jenniferjungkim at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Kisaeng
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> Hi,
> 
> There are some good books in Korean, but in terms of English-language
> sources, I can only think of:
> 
> "Chang Sa-hun, "Women Entertainers of the Yi Dynasty," in _Women of
> the Yi Dynasty_ (Seoul: Research Center for Asian Women, Sookmyung
> Women's University, 1986) pp 251-265
> 
> and parts of
> 
> Kim, Yung-Chung, ed, _Women of Korea: A History from Ancient Times to
> 1945_ (Seoul: Ewha Womans University, 1976).
> 
> I suppose any of the _Ch'unhyang_ films might provide some insight
> into kisaeng social status, as well as how Confucian morality was
> prevalent even at the lower social classes.  But I wouldn't say the
> films are really about kisaeng.  There are also some kisaeng
> characters in some translated literary works, but I can't think of any
> that are really about kisaeng.
> 
> I have a section in my dissertation that deals with kisaeng (their
> history, status during the colonial period, and social and labor
> activism), but none of it has been published yet.
> 
> I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help -- I hope some of the literature
> specialists can think of other sources that may help.
> 
> Jennifer Jung-Kim
> 
> 
> On 1/16/06, Pete Morriss <pete.morriss at nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >         Intrigued by all the publicity about the filming of 
> Memoirs of a Geisha, one of my students asked me if she could find 
> out more about the Korean equivalent.  That's outside my main 
> field, so I immediately thought of this list.  Does anybody know of 
> anything - fiction, non-fiction, film, or whatever - that might 
> give an insight into the lives of kisaeng?  Unfortunately, only 
> English-language sources would be of any use in this case.
> >         Many thanks,
> >                 Pete Morriss
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Pete Morriss (Dr.)
> > Department of Political Science and Sociology,
> > National University of Ireland, Galway
> > Ireland
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:46:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: "J.Scott Burgeson" <jsburgeson at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Kisaeng
> To: Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
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> --- Pete Morriss <pete.morriss at nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> Does anybody know of anything - fiction, non-fiction,
> film, or whatever - that might give an insight into
> the lives of kisaeng?
> 
> 
> I interviewed the last surviving classically trained
> gisaeng in Seoul, Kim Ja-ya in 1998, and she passed
> away about a year later. The full text of this
> interview is available in my book "Korea Bug"
> (Eunhaeng Namu, 2005). To my knowledge, such an
> in-depth, transcribed interview does not exist even in
> Korean-language sources, as any local media stories on
> her mostly contained just brief quotes or paraphrases
> by journalists, rather than full and actual
> transcriptions of any conversations they had with
> her... I also interviewed a contemporary "gisaeng" in
> my magazine Bug Vol. 1 in 1997, but they cannot be
> considered gisaeng in any true sense of the word,
> although to the untutored eye, the hanboks they wear
> may signify some level of "authenticity"... A room
> salon hostess would in fact be a closer modern
> equivalent to the classical gisaeng...
>   --Scott Bug 
>  
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:58:54 -0500
> From: kevin parks <kevin at macosx.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Kisaeng
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> By coincidence i happened to have, in my lap, at this very moment:
> 
> Song of Kisaeng
> by Contogenis & Choe
> 
> BOA Editions, Ltd.
> ISBN: 1-880238-53-5
> 
> But i am sure your student could learn a lot more by going to that 
> fun 
> library
> place, libraries are very cool <wink> --nice place to learn stuff 
> and 
> meet people.
> 
> hee hee
> 
> -kevin parks--
> 
> University of Virginia
> Music Dept.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Pete Morriss wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > ??????? Intrigued by all the publicity about the filming of 
> Memoirs of 
> > a Geisha, one of my students asked me if she could find out more 
> about 
> > the Korean equivalent.? That's outside my main field, so I 
> immediately 
> > thought of this list.? Does anybody know of anything - fiction, 
> > non-fiction, film, or whatever - that might give an insight into 
> the 
> > lives of kisaeng?? Unfortunately, only English-language sources 
> would 
> > be of any use in this case.
> > ??????? Many thanks,
> > ??????? ??????? Pete Morriss
> >
> >
> >
> > Pete Morriss (Dr.)
> > Department of Political Science and Sociology,
> > National University of Ireland, Galway
> > Ireland
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