[KS] JaHyun Kim Haboush

[gkl1 at columbia.edu]

   I’ve been very moved during this past week by the remembrances of  
Ja Haboush posted by her friends and colleagues. Needless to say,  
everything that has been said regarding her work and her many  
contributions to the field of Korean Studies ring true with me. Her  
passing after a long and apparently difficult illness is something  
that was unexpected by most of us, including myself. As my early  
student, and later colleague, as well as my own replacement as King  
Sejong Professor at Columbia, I will miss her very, very much.
   Shortly after Ja’s passing, Bill Haboush, her husband of 45 years,  
announced a small, simple funeral for family and close friends,  
followed by a memorial service within perhaps 60 days. I hope to be  
able to post the details of this latter occasion as soon as they are  
announced.
   I first met JaHyun Kim Haboush in 1970, when she appeared at my  
office door and inquired about the possibility of admission to the  
graduate program at Columbia. It became quickly apparent that she  
would be an ideal student. She had graduated from Ewha University in  
1962, having majored in English literature. In 1970, she earned an  
M.A. at the University of Michigan in Chinese literature, with her  
M.A. thesis on Yuan Dynasty theater. Her abilities in Chinese were  
already outstanding. At Columbia she discovered King Yŏngjo, a  
monarch with issues if ever there was one, and she was off and running  
on her PhD topic and second book. From that time on, she was never  
without a project. She loved talking about her work and the  
discoveries she made. A lunch with her was always fun and full of back  
and forth on her current interests and the state of the Korean history  
field. She enjoyed every minute she could spend in the sillok and in  
numerous other Chosŏn dynasty sources that she marched through.  
Most of them were in Chinese—and this was before many of those  
sources had been translated into Korean. There could hardly be a  
better role model for today’s younger scholars working in the  
Chosŏn period, or a better inspiration for other scholars to  
seriously consider the pre-modern periods for their life work. Such a  
career is not for everyone, but as Ja has shown, there is a lot of  
interesting Korean life before modernity.
   Ja’s work was mainly devoted to the Chosŏn dynasty, and  
particularly the second half of it for which materials on popular  
culture were more numerous. She also made many contributions on  
Confucianism in the Chosŏn period. She saw Confucianism as a  
major institution that provided both background and foil for the  
understanding of Chosŏn’s rich and varied cultural levels. Her  
publications offered many different approaches to these subjects, as  
is evident in her books, articles, and reviews. Her career was also  
marked by energetic activity in organizing conferences and cooperative  
volumes. It seemed that the more people she brought together for joint  
efforts, the happier she was. She had the major role in establishing  
Korean Studies on a sound basis at the University of Illinois  
(Champaign), and made equally important contributions to the Columbia  
program after my retirement in 2000. She was a superb translator, from  
major projects such as Lady Hyegyŏng’s Memoirs to short articles  
for textbooks and encyclopedias. For the Hyegyŏng memoirs she  
received the Grand Prize in Literature Translation of the Korean  
Culture and Arts Foundation in 1997. Her books and articles appear on  
syllabuses in Asian Studies all over the world.
Through the cooperation of the Department of East Asian Languages and  
Cultures at Columbia University, I am able to add to these thoughts a  
complete list of her most important writings as of last year, which in  
speaking for themselves will obviate any attempt to characterize her  
entire oeuvre. The list follows immediately below.

Gari Ledyard

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAHYUN KIM HABOUSH

Books:

1985  The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. Coeditor. New York: Columbia
University Press.

1988  A Heritage of Kings: One Man’s Monarchy in the Confucian World.  
New  York: Columbia University Press.

1996  The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical  
Writings of A Crown
Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Berkeley: University of  
California Press.

1999  Culture and the State in Late Chosôn Korea. Coeditor. Asia  
Center, Harvard University.

2001  The Confucian Kingship in Korea (a paper edition of A Heritage of Kings
with an added preface). New York: Columbia University Press.

2003  Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and  
Japan.      Co-editor. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2009  Epistolary Korea: Letters from the Communicative Space of the  
Chosôn,
                 1392-1910. New York: Columbia University Press.

Articles:

1985  “The Education of the Yi Crown Prince: A Study in Confucian Pedagogy.”
In Wm. Theodore Bary and Haboush, eds. The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in  
Korea. pp. 161-222.
       .
1985  “Confucian Rhetoric and Ritual as Techniques of Political Dominance:
Yŏngjo’s Use of the Royal Lecture.”The Journal of Korean Studies   
5:39-61.

1987  “The Sirhak Movement of the Late Yi Dynasty.” Korean Culture 8.2: 20-27.

1987  “Confucianism in Korea.” In Mircea Eliade ed. The Encyclopedia  
of Religion. 16 Vols. New York: MacMillan and Free Press. 4:10-15.

1987  “Song Siyŏl,” “Yi T’oegye,” “Yi Yulgok,” “Yun Hyu.” In  
Mircea Eliade ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion. 13;415-16; 15:517-18;  
15:518-19; 15:543-44.

1988  “Tonghak,” “Kim Ok-kyun,” “Son Pyŏng-hŭi.” In Ainslie  
T. Embree ed.
The Encyclopedia of Asian History . 4 Vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

1991  “The Confucianization of Korean Society.” In Gilbert Rozman ed. The East
Asian Region: Confucian Traditions and Modern Dynamism. Princeton:  
Princeton University Press. pp. 84-110.

1991  “Women in Traditional Korea.” In Helen Tierney ed. Women’s Studies
Encyclopedia. 3 Vols. New York: Greenwood.

1992  “Dual Nature of Cultural Discourse in Chosŏn Korea.” In  
Bernard Hung-
Kay Luk, ed., Contact between Cultures, East Asia: History and Social  
Science. Lampeter, Dyfed, UK: Ellen Mellen Press. Vol. 4, pp. 194-96.

1992  “The Text of The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Problem of  
Authenticity.”
Gest Library Journal 5.2: 29-48.

1993  “Perceptions of Korean Culture in the United States.” Korea  
Focus 1.2: 72-86. Translated as:

1993  “미국내의 한국 문화: 그 존재와 인식. (Representation and Perception of
Korean Culture in the United States). Kyegan Sasang. March. pp. 149-175.

1993  “Public and Private in the Court Art of Eighteenth-Century  
Korea.” Korean
Culture 14.2: 14-21.

1993  “Rescoring the Universal in a Korean Mode: Eighteenth Century Korean
Culture.” Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor and  
Simplicity. New York: The Asia Society Galleries. pp. 23-33.

1993  “The Censorial Voice in Chosŏn Korea: A Tradition of  
Institutionalized
Dissent.” Han-kuo hsueh-bao 12:11-19.

1994  “Academies and Civil Society in Chosŏn Korea.” In  
Léon Vandermeersch ed.
La société civile face à l’État: dans les  
traditions chinoise, japonaise,
coréenne et vietnamienne. Paris: École Française  
d’Extrême-Orient. pp. 383-392.

1995  “Dreamland: Korean Dreamscapes as an Alternative Confucian  
Space.” In Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer ed. Das Andere China. Wiesbaden  
Germany: Harrassowitz. pp. 659-70.

1995  “Filial Emotions and Filial Values: Changing Patterns in the  
Discourse of
Filiality in Late Chosŏn Korea.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic  
Studies 55.1: 129-177.

1997  “시공을 넘나든 만남” (Encounter beyond space and time) in Readers’ Today  
(Dec 1997): 22-25.

1999  “Constructing the Center: The Ritual Controversy and the Search for a
New Identity in Seventeenth-Century Korea,” in JaHyun Kim Haboush and  
Martina Deuchler, eds., Culture and the State in Late Chosôn  
Korea. Cambridge: Asia Center, Harvard University, pp. 46-90, 240-49.

2001  “In Search of HISTORY in Democratic Korea: The Discourse of  
Modernity in Contemporary Historical Fiction.” In Constructing  
Nationhood in Modern East Asia, Kai-wing Chow, Kevin Doak, Poshek Fu,  
ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 189-214.

2002  “Gender and the Politics of Language in Korea” in Rethinking  
Confucianism: Past & Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. John  
Duncan,
Benjamin Elman and Herman Ooms, ed. Asian Pacific Monograph Series,
UCLA, pp. 220-257.

2003  “Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in the Vernacular
Narratives of Chosŏn Korea.” In Women and Confucian Cultures in  
Pre-Modern China, Korea, and Japan. Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush,  
Joan Piggot, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 279-312.

2003  “Dead Bodies in the Postwar Discourse of Identity in Seventeenth-Century
Korea: Subversion and Literary Production in the Private Sector.” The  
Journal of Asian Studies. 62.2 (May 2003): 415-442.

2003  “Private Memory and Public History.” In Creative Women of Korea. Young-
Key Kim-Renaud ed. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 122-141.

2003  “Conference on Historiography of Korea— Methodologies and  
Strategies” in
한국사 학회 ed., 한국사 연구방법의 새로운 모색. Seoul: Kyŏngin munhwasa, 2003, 1-8.

2003  “조선시대 문화사를 어떻게 쓸 것인가 — 자료와 접근 방법에 대하여”(How to write the  
cultural history of Chosŏn Korea— sources and approaches) in
Han’guksa sahakhoe ed., Han’guksa yŏn’gu pangbŏp ŭi  
saeroun mosaek.  Seoul: Kyŏngin munhwasa, 2003, 173-196.

2004  “Filial Emotions and Filial Values: Changing Patterns in the  
Discourse of
Filiality in Late Chosŏn Korea.” Reprinted in John Corrigan ed.,  
Religion Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations. Oxford: Oxford  
University Press, 75-113.

2005  “Contesting Chinese Time, Nationalizing Temporal Space: Temporal
Inscription in Late Chosŏn Korea.” In Lynn Struve, ed., Time,  
Temporality,
and Imperial Transition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 115-141.

2005  “효의 감성과 효의 가치: 조선 후기 효 담논의 변화” (Discourse on Filiality
during Late Chosŏn Korea), Kungmunhak yŏn’gu (June, 2005): 155-203.

2006  “Introduction,” in Hahn Moo-Sook, Young-Key Kim Renaud tr., And so flows
History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006, pp. 1-7

2007  “우리는 왜 임진왜란을 연구합니까?” (Why do we study the Imjin Wars?)
임진왜란: 동아세아 삼국 전쟁」 Seoul: Humanist Books, 2007, pp. 23-39.

2008  “The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity
of Subjects.” In Anne Walthall  ed., Servants of the Dynasty. Berkeley:
University of California Press.

2010  “Yun Hyu and the Search for Dominance: A Seventeenth-Century  
Korean Reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou.” In  
Benjamin Elman
and Martin Kern, eds, Statecraft and Classical Learning: The Rituals  
of Zhou and East Asian History. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 309-329.

Scholarly Translations:

1996  “King Yŏngjo: Eliminating Factions,” “Lady Hyegyŏng:  
Two New Factions,”
"Yun Hyu" “Literature, Music, Song,” “Chŏng Naegyo: Preface to  
Ch’ŏnggu yŏngŏn— The emergence of the chungin  
patronage of art.” In Peter Lee, ed. Sourcebook of Korean  
Civilization: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present.
New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 39-43, 240-42.

2001  Chapter on Education in Sources of Korean Tradition. Vol. 2. New York:
Columbia University Press. pp. 34-69.

Reviews:

1988  Review of Unforgettable Things: Poems by Sŏ Chŏngju.  
Translated by David McCann. The Journal of Asian Studies 47.3: 667-68.

1989  Review of Tongsŏ munhwa kyoryusa yŏn’gu—  
Myŏng-Ch’ŏng sidae sŏhak suyong (A study of East-West  
cultural contact: The reception of Western
Learning in the Ming-Qing period). By Ch’oe Soja. The Journal of Asian
Studies 48: 130-31.

1989  Review of The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales  
and the Telling of Tales. By Laurel Kendall. Korean Studies. 13: 146-50.

1991  Review of Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology. Edited by  
Peter H. Lee. The Journal of Asian Studies 50.3.
1991  Review of Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three  
Chosŏn Dynasty Poets. Translated, with an introduction, by Peter  
H. Lee. The Journal of Asian Studies 50.4

1994  Review of Sourcebook of Korean Civilization: Early Times to the  
Sixteenth
Century. Vol. 1. Edited by Peter H. Lee. The Journal of Asian Studies  
53.1: 242-44.

1995  Review of Briefing 1993, Briefing 1994. Edited by Donald N.  
Clark. Korean Studies 19: 183-86.

2001  Review of My very last possession and Other Stories by Pak  
Wansŏ. The Journal of Asian Studies.