[KS] {Disarmed} [GWIKS] 03/27 Premodern Korea Lecture Series with Wenjiao Cai

Wed Mar 20 07:54:37 EDT 2024

Commodification of Chosŏn Ginseng & Envir. Change in Early Modern E. Asia
[image: Commodification of Chosŏn Ginseng & Envir. Change in Early Modern
E. Asia]
*The Premodern Korea Lecture Series*

*“The Commodification of Chosŏn Ginseng and the Scaleof Environmental
Change in Early Modern East Asia”*
*Wenjiao Cai*

*Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania*

*Wednesday, March 27th, 202410:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT)     Virtual Event via Zoom*
Register Here! <https://click.gwu.edu/click/4n019k/k4ryzjlc/gppr7fb>

*Event Description*
“The Commodification of Chosŏn Ginseng and the Scale
of Environmental Change in Early Modern East Asia"

This talk explores the ecological impacts of the seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century trade of Chosŏn ginseng in East Asia. Focusing on the
transformation of Kanggye—Chosŏn’s largest producer of export ginseng—it
shows how cross-border commodity flows reorganized local natural and social
landscapes through the systematic extraction of the root and how the
resulting exhaustion of ginseng reserves prompted countermeasures ranging
from regulating sales, adjusting tribute collection, and eventually,
promoting cultivated varieties. By demonstrating how foreign demand for
ginseng altered the environment on the Korean peninsula, the analysis
illuminates the forces of ecological change that transcended national and
imperial boundaries. Moreover, by elucidating the diverse practices the
Chosŏn state developed to extract and conserve ginseng, it enriches
scholarly understandings of natural resource management in this period,
which has been predominantly studied through the institution of state
forestry.
*Speaker*
*Wenjiao Cai*
*Wenjiao Cai *is a historian of early modern Korea with research interests
in environments, science and technology, law, and frontiers and
borderlands. She is working on her first manuscript, Coping with the Cold:
Nature and State on Chosŏn Korea’s Northern Frontier, which examines how
human-climate relations shaped state expansion in Chosŏn’s northern
provinces of P’yŏngan and Hamgyŏng. Wenjiao received her Ph.D. in History
and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 2022 and currently
serves as a Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of
Pennsylvania.
*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 *Criminalizing Intimacy:
Marriage, Concubinage, and Illicit Sex in Chosŏn Korea*. She received her
M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia
University.
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*From Restricted Access to Published Archive: The Circulation of Official
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*Pierre-Emmanuel Roux*(Université Paris Cité)

*Cartography and Contraband Religion in Chosŏn Korea: Andreas Kim Taegŏn
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September 20, 2023
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