[KS] FW: Additional Posting on H-ASIA: Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush

Frank Joseph Shulman fshulman at umd.edu
Sun Feb 13 02:01:14 EST 2011


This too may be of immediate interest to KS listserve members who are not on H-Asia.

Frank Joseph Shulman
Bibliographer, Editor and Consultant for Reference Publications in Asian Studies
E-mail: fshulman at umd.edu

February 13, 2011

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From: H-Net list for Asian History and Culture [H-ASIA at H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Conlon [conlon at U.WASHINGTON.EDU]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:38 PM
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Subject: H-ASIA: Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush

H-ASIA
February 12, 2011

Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush

(courtesy of Kristin Stapleton)
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Ed. note: I have drawn together material from two sites at Columbia
University concerning the passing of Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush, a
prolific and influential scholar of Korean civilization.  I hope that
we may receive a more personal obituary note from one of her students or
colleagues, but in the interim, I hope this will provide suitable
notice of this sad news.                                FFC
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From: Frank Conlon

The webpage of the Columbia University Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures contains the following note:

January 31st, 2011

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of JaHyun Kim
Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, on January 30th, 2011,
after a valiant struggle against breast cancer. A valued member of the
EALAC faculty and leading figure in Korean studies, Professor Haboush?s
loss is irretrievably sad for all of us personally and for the department.

Information regarding the memorial service will follow when available.
Sympathy cards may be sent to her husband, Bill Haboush, at the following
address:

Bill Haboush
315 West 70th Street, Apt. 9B
New York, NY 10023

[modified from Columbia University EALAC Department Website):

Jahyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies (EALAC), was a
cultural historian of pre- and early modern Korea , particularly from 16th
to 19th centuries. She was also interested in and teaches literature.
Professor Haboush received her MA from the University of Michigan (1970)
and Ph.D. from Columbia (1978). Her current areas of interest include
political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and
ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Her publications include: A
Heritage of Kings: One Mans Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988); The
Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001);
and The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown
Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), for which she won the Korean
Arts and Culture Foundations Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism. She
also co-edited: The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985); Culture and
the State in Late Chosn Korea (1999); and Women in Pre-Modern Confucian
Cultures in China , Korea , and Japan (2003).

>From Columbia Univ esity website

<http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/02/07/
          korean-professor-haboush-remembered-love-new-york-culture>

Korean professor Haboush remembered for love of New York culture Professor
JaHyun Kim Haboush died on Jan. 30 after a battle with breast cancer.
By Karla Jimenez

Published February 7, 2011

A fan of Korean pansori ballad singing and a lover of New York City,
Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush was remembered by colleagues and friends last
week as an outstanding Korean scholar and a dedicated Columbian.

Haboush, King Sejong professor of Korean studies, died on Jan. 30 after a
battle with breast cancer. She is survived by her husband, Bill Haboush.

Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush was elegant in every respect, from personal
style to matters of intellect and expression, adjunct professor of
anthropology Laurel Kendall, who had known Haboush since they were both
graduate students, said in an email.

Haboush, a member of the East Asian Languages and Cultures faculty,
specialized in Koreas cultural history from the 16th to 19th centuries.
She received her M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970 and her
Ph.D. from Columbia in 1978, going on to teach at Rutgers University and
the University of Illinois before her return to Columbia as a professor in
2000.

She came to Columbia and really brought great energy and prominence to the
Korean program, said associate professor of Korean studies Charles
Armstrong, who holds Haboushs former position.

Haboush had published numerous books and was still working on new
material, all while teaching a full course load.

She passed away at the peak of her career, at the peak of her
productivity, Armstrong said. She was a very valuable colleague and one of
the leading scholars on Korean studies in the nation and the world.

Jisoo Kim, a professor at George Washington University and Haboush's
former student, remembered that she had an interesting method of getting
her students to think more deeply during seminar discussions.

When her students would say something, she would pull her face and make a
frown or face. If she did that it meant we said something wrong or dumb
and we had to reshape our thoughts, Kim said, explaining that it was
Haboush's way of getting her students to make compelling arguments.

According to colleagues, Haboush brought an original curiosity to her
field--one that extended beyond the academic realm.

She had a deep love of Korea, reflected not only in her work but in her
exquisite taste in Korean art and her enthusiasm for pansori ballad
singing, Kendall said, recalling a performance by the singer Chan Park at
a party in Haboushs apartment.

Kendall also remembered Haboushs knowledge of the city, calling her the
most thoroughly cultured New Yorker that I have ever known.

Chun-fang Yu, Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhism, worked with Haboush
on several projects and said that she was passionate about New York's
theater, fashion, and music.

We spent much time going to the opera, movies, and explored the cultural
riches of New York on weekends and during vacations, Yu said in an email.

Kendall added that Haboush was known for working well with colleagues.

I was her junior and always felt in awe of her but also felt that she was
cheering me on, Kendall said. She was a good friend with a warm and rich
sense of humor.

The Department mourns her deeply, Haboushs EALAC faculty listing now
reads.
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Some works by the late JaHyun Kim Haboush:

   Lee, Soyoung, 1971-
   Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600 / Soyoung Lee ; with
          essays by JaHyun Kim Haboush, Sunpyo Hong, and Chin-Sung Chang.
   New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale  University
          Press, c2009.
   Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan
          Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 17-June 21, 2009.
   Creating a society of civil culture : the early Joseon, 1392-1592
         / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Art and patronage in the early Joseon /
           Soyoung Lee -- Peace under heaven : Confucianism and painting
           in early Joseon Korea / Sunpyo Hong and Chin-Sung Chang --
           Checklist of objects in the exhibition / Soyoung Lee.
ISBN      9781588393104 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
ISBN      1588393100 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
ISBN      9780300148916 (Yale University Press (hc))
ISBN      0300148917 (Yale University Press (hc))

   Culture and the state in late Choson Korea / JaHyun Kim Haboush &
       Martina Deuchler, editors.
   Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.
   Harvard East Asian monographs ; 182.
   Harvard-Hallym series on Korean studies.

   Epistolary Korea : letters in the communicative space of the
        Choson, 1392-1910 / edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush.
   New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
ISBN         9780231148023 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN         023114802X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN         9780231148030 (pbk.)
ISBN         0231148038 (pbk.)
ISBN         9780231519595 (electronic)

   Hyegyonggung Hong Ssi, 1735-1815.
   The memoirs of Lady Hyegyong : the autobiographical writings of a Crown
       Princess of eighteenth-century Korea /
       translated with an introduction and annotations by JaHyun Kim Haboush.
   Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
ISBN         0520200543 (alk. paper)
ISBN         0520200551 (pbk. : alk. paper)

   Haboush, JaHyun Kim.
   The Confucian kingship in Korea : Yongjo and the politics of
                sagacity / JaHyun Kim Haboush.
   New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.
   Originally published as: A heritage of kings.
ISBN         0231066570 (paper)
ISBN         0231066562 (cloth)

   Haboush, JaHyun Kim.
    A heritage of kings : one man's monarchy in the Confucian world /
    New York : Columbia University Press, 1988.
ISBN         0231066562 (alk. paper)

   The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea / Wm. Theodore de Bary and
         JaHyun Kim Haboush, editors.
    New York : Columbia University Press, 1985.
ISBN         0231060521 (alk. paper)

   Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan
      / edited by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott.
   Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
   Pt. 1. Scripts of male dominance.  The patriarchal family
      paradigm in eighth-century Japan / Hiroko Sekiguchi ; The last
      classical female sovereign: K?ken-Sh?toku Tenn? / Joan R.
      Piggott ; Representation of females in twelfth-century Korean
      historiography / Hai-soon Lee -- The presence and absence of
      female musicians and music in China / Joseph S.C. Lam -- Pt. 2.
      Propagating Confucian virtues.  Woomen and the transmission of
      Confucian culture in Song China / Jian Zang ; Propagating
      female virtues in Chos?n Korea / Martina Deuchler ; State
      indoctrination of filial piety in Tokugawa Japan: sons and
      daughters in the Official records of filial piety / Noriko
      Sugano -- Pt. 3. Female education in practice.  Norms and texts
      for women's education in Tokugawa Japan / Martha C. Tocco ;
      Competing claims on womanly virtue in late imperial China /
      Fangqin Du and Susan Mann -- Pt. 4. Corporeal and textual
      expressions of female subjectivity.  Discipline and
      transformation: body and practice in the lives of Daoist holy
      women of Tang China / Suzanne E. Cahill ; Versions and
      subversions: patriarchy and polygamy in Korean narratives / JaHyan
      Kim Haboush.
ISBN         0520231058 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN         0520231384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Articles (other than those published within the books cited above)

"The Sirhak Movement of the late Yi dynasty"
Korean Culture (Los Angeles, CA) 8:2 (Sum 1987) pp.20-27
<ISSN>0270-1618</ISSN>

"Filial emotions and filial values: changing patterns in the discourse of
filiality in late Choson Korea"
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Cambridge, MA) 55:1 (Jun 1995)
      pp.129-177
<ISSN>0073-0548</ISSN>

"Yun Hyu and the search for dominance: a seventeenth-century Korean
reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou"
In: Elman, Benjamin A.; Kern, Martin, eds. Statecraft and classical
learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history.
Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2010.
pp.309-329

"Pre-modern national identity? Problems of conceptualization in Korean
history"
  In: Sae ch'onnyon Han'gugin ui chongch'esong: che 11-hoe Han'gukhak
Kukche Haksul Hoeui nonmunjip = Korean identity in the new millennium:
proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Korean Studies.
Kyonggi-do Songnam-si: Han'guk Chongsin Munhwa Yon'guw?on, 2001.
pp.57-64

"Filial emotions and filial values: changing patterns in the discourse of
filiality in late Choson Korea"
In: Corrigan, John, ed. Religion and emotion: approaches and
interpretations. New York; Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2004.
pp.75-113

"The Confucianization of Korean society"
In: Rozman, Gilbert, ed. The East Asian region: Confucian heritage and
its modern adaptation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1991.
pp.84-110

"Dead bodies in the postwar discourse of identity in seventeenth-century
Korea: subversion and literary production in the private sector [Talch'on
mongyurok (Dream Journey to Talch'on) by Yun Kyeson, P'isaeng mongyurok
(Mr. P'i's Dream Journey), and Kangdo mongyurok (Dream Journey to Kanghwa
Island] Journal of Asian Studies 62,2 (May 2003)
pp.415-442
<ISSN>0021-9118</ISSN>

"Constructing the center: the ritual controversy and the search for a new
identity in seventeenth-century Korea"
In: Haboush, JaHyun Kim; Deuchler, Martina, eds. Culture and the state in
late Choson Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.
pp. 46-90

"In search of history in democratic Korea: the discourse of modernity in
contemporary historical fiction"
In: Chow, Kai-wing; Doak, Kevin M.; Fu, Poshek, eds. Constructing
nationhood in modern East Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
2001.
pp.189-214

"Gender and language in historical narratives in Korea"
In: Conference of AKSE (17th: 1995: Prague, Czech Republic). 17th
conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe: abstracts:
Prague, April 21-25, 1995. Prague: Institute of East Asian Studies,
Charles University, 1995.
pp.76-79

"Private memory and public history: the memoirs of Lady Hyegyong and
testimonial literature"
In: Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, ed. Creative women of Korea: the fifteenth
through the twentieth centuries. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
pp.122-141

"Confucian rhetoric and ritual as techniques of political dominance:
Yongjo's use of the royal lecture", Journal of Korean Studies (Seattle)
5 (1984) pp.39-62

"Rescoring the universal in a Korean mode: eighteenth-century Korean
culture"
In: Kim, Hongnam, ed. Korean arts of the eighteenth century: splendor
& simplicity. New York: Weatherhill: Asia Society Galleries, 1993.
pp.23-33

"Contesting Chinese time, nationalizing temporal space: temporal
inscription in late Choson Korea"
In: Struve, Lynn A., ed. Time, temporality, and imperial transition: East
Asia from Ming to Qing. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; Ann Arbor,
Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, 2005. (Asian interactions and
comparisons)
pp.115-141

"Gender and the politics of language in Choson Korea"
In: Elman, Benjamin A.; Duncan, John B.; Ooms, Herman, eds. Rethinking
Confucianism: past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Los Angeles: University of California, 2002.
(UCLA Asian Pacific monograph series)
pp.220-257

"Perceptions of Korean culture in the United States"
Korea Focus (Seoul) 1.2 (1983)
pp.72-86
<ISSN>1225-8113</ISSN>

"The dual nature of cultural discourse in Choson Korea"
In: Luk, Bernard Hung-Kay, ed. Contacts between cultures. Volume 4.
Eastern Asia: history and social sciences. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen
Press, 1992.
pp.194-196

I wish to acknowledge the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) for
these citations--with the note that the BAS actually includes many
other materials which are in the collected volumes which Professor
JaHyun Kim Haboush edited.                                   Frank F. Conlon




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