[KS] Fwd: [GWIKS] This Wednesday: 11/29 Premodern Lecture Series with Graeme Reynolds

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*The Premodern Korea Lecture Series*

*“From Restricted Access to Published Archive:The Circulation of Official
Histories of Koryŏ in Chosŏn (1392–1910)"*
*Graeme Reynolds*

Instructor in History, The University of Chicago

*Wednesday, November 29th, 202310:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time (EST)     Virtual Event via Zoom*
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*Event Description*
“From Restricted Access to Published Archive:
The Circulation of Official Histories of Koryŏ in Chosŏn (1392–1910)"

This presentation explores the publication and circulation of two official
court histories of Koryŏ (918–1392) compiled in early Chosŏn (1392–1910):
the *History of Koryŏ* (Koryŏsa) and the *Essentials of Koryŏ History* (Koryŏsa
chŏryo). While the two works are important historical sources today, the
motives and means for printing and circulating each history varied over the
course of the Chosŏn dynasty. Initially, court policy dictated that
circulation of the two histories was to be restricted, resulting in a
limited number of movable type imprints of both histories that tended to be
accessible only to central officialdom throughout the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. Eventually, the court relaxed its attitude and
permitted the publication of a new woodblock edition of the *History of
Koryŏ* in the seventeenth century, drastically broadening its readership.
This uneven temporal and geographical distribution impacted how Chosŏn
literati read and wrote histories outside of the court. In particular, the
widespread publication of a previously restricted source in the form
of the *History
of Koryŏ* spurred new ventures in private history writing in late Chosŏn.
*Speaker*
*Graeme Reynolds*
*Graeme Reynolds *is a cultural and intellectual historian of early modern
Korea with interests in the production and circulation of knowledge, the
history of the book, and historiography. His book manuscript, *Material
Historiography: The Official Histories of Koryŏ from Their Compilation to
the Present*, examines the production, circulation, reception of two court
histories treating the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392), the *History of Koryŏ* and
the *Essentials of Koryŏ History*, from their contested compilation in the
early Chosŏn period (1392–1910) to their effective canonization in a
plethora of modern editions and databases in our digital present. Drawing
on material bibliography, he has examined over one hundred call numbers of
Chosŏn-era copies of the *History* and the *Essentials* held in
institutions in Korea and Japan, and analyzed their physical features,
track ownership marks and seals, and studied marginal notes left by readers
to uncover the material history of these two historical works. His second
project has been an investigation into Chosŏn Korea’s state-dominated and
heavily non-commercial publishing economy, where woodblock, movable type,
and handwriting were all viable methods of making books. He received his
B.A. in Asian Area Studies from the University of British Columbia and
holds an M.A. in Korean History from the Academy of Korean Studies and a
Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. Prior to
coming to the University of Chicago, Reynolds was a Korea Foundation
postdoctoral fellow at Yale University.
*Moderator*
*Jisoo M. Kim*
*Jisoo M. Kim* is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History,
International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George
Washington University. She is Founding Director of the GW Institute for
Korean Studies (2017-Present) and Founding Co-Director of the East Asia
National Resource Center (2018-Present). She also serves as Editor-in-Chief
of the Journal of Korean Studies. She specializes in gender, sexuality,
law, emotions, and affect in Korean history. She is the author of *The
Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea*
(University of Washington Press, 2016), which was awarded the 2017 James
Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the
co-editor of *The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation*
by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently
working on a book project tentatively entitled *Criminalization of
Intimacy: Adultery Law and the Making of Monogamous Marriage in Korea*. She
received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures
from Columbia University.
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