[KS] Book Announcement: The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

[Jisoo Kim]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to late JaHyun Kim Haboush’s posthumous
book, *The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation*
(Columbia University Press, March 2016).
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-great-east-asian-war-and-the-birth-of-the-korean-nation/9780231172288

In order to celebrate this book publication, there will be a roundtable
discussion at the AAS in Seattle on April 2 (Saturday). Hope many of you
could join and share the excitement!

Best,
Jisoo



The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

JaHyun Kim Haboush. Edited by William J. Haboush and Jisoo Kim


The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the
towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war,
was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian
memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's
Chosôn Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse
began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese
army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after
the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636.

By documenting this phenomenon, JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling
counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of
nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead
elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half
of the Chosôn Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia
and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival. Re-creating
the cultural and political passions that bound Chosôn society together
during this period, Haboush reclaims the root story of solidarity that
helped Korea thrive well into the modern era.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940–2011) was the King Sejong Professor of Korean
Studies at Columbia University. Her Columbia University Press publications
include *A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang
Hang* (2013); *Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the
Chosôn, 1392–1910* (2009); *The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the
Politics of Sagacity* (2001); and *A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy
in the Confucian World *(1988).

William J. Haboush is professor of mathematics at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jisoo M. Kim is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History,
International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.




Jisoo M. Kim, Ph.D.
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History, International Affairs,
and East Asian Languages and Literatures
The George Washington University
801 22nd St., NW, Suite 315
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: 202-994-6761
Fax: 202-994-6231
E-mail: jsk10 at gwu.edu
http://history.columbian.gwu.edu/jisoo-m-kim
http://elliott.gwu.edu/kim-j

Link to my book *The Emotions of Justice*:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KIMEMO.html#contents
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