[KS] Kyujanggak colloquium: Sino-Korean Relations in the 1880s (Wayne Patterson)

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Dear List members,

For its 63rd colloquium in Korean Studies, the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies is pleased to announce Prof. Wayne Patterson (St Norbert College) as its speaker. His presentation is entitlted:
"New Research on Sino-Korean Relations in the 1880s from In the Service of His Korean Majesty."
Venue: Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University
Seminar room (first room)
Time: May 31 (Thu.) , 4-6 PM

Abstract:
When discussing Korea's "Chinese decade," roughly defined as the dozen or so years prior to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, most of the attention is focused on the heavy-handed activities of Yuan Shikai in Seoul. Less well known is that part of this Chinese effort to bind Korea more closely to China involved the absorption of Korea's newly formed maritime Customs Service and the key roles played by Sir Robert Hart, Li Hongzhang, Henry F. Merrill, and Paul Georg von Moellendorff. Using the recently-discovered correspondence of the first commissioner of customs in Pusan, this talk will discuss some heretofore unknown aspects of this attempted takeover by China, and is based on the author's recently-published book, "In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888" (Berkeley: Univ of Cal. Institute of East Asian Studies Korea Monographs 35, 2012)

For more information, visit the Kyujanggak website:
http://kyujanggak.snu.ac.kr/_Board/Detail.jsp?id=1905&type=13
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