[KS] announcement: the Hong Yung Lee Book Award winner

[Jinsoo An]

Dear listserv manager,

Please post the following announcement to the Korean Studies community.
Thank you for your attention and support.

Cordially,

Jinsoo An

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Announcement: The 2024 Hong Yung Lee Book Award Winner



The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to announce the
2024 winner of the UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean
Studies, *Boundless
Winds of Empire**: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Choson Diplomacy with Ming
China* (Columbia University Press, 2023), by Professor Sixiang Wang (UCLA).



In *Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Choson
Diplomacy with Ming China*, Professor Wang offers a sweeping, revisionist
account of East Asian diplomatic relations across three centuries.  Few
subjects have been as widely written about as tributary relations, with
historians in China, Japan, Korea, and the United States all making the
Sino-Korean relationship a mainstay understanding pre-modern political and
intellectual history.  Wang moves away from the conventional
interpretations of tributary relations by bringing fresh methodological
approaches, most notably by not taking at face value the longstanding
rhetoric and rituals that, for centuries, framed the relationship.  He
submits an extraordinarily wide array of sources – from poetry to
diplomatic memorials, travelogues to epistolary correspondence, from court
records to literary anthologies – to close, contextual readings and
demonstrates how Chosŏn and Ming actors co-constructed and mutually
invested in a variety of literary stereotypes, tropes, and conventions that
in their inconsistencies and contradictions provided sufficient flexibility
and capacity for the maneuvering of diplomatic politics.  This is
storytelling at its best, yet always in service to the author’s broader
themes.  With the astute use of sources, and nuanced approach to reading
against the grain, Wang shows a bracing way of rethinking the
centuries-long history of Sino-Korean relations.

The UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies and its $10,000
prize were created to support groundbreaking research and writing that
seeks to further the field of Korean Studies.  A ceremony to celebrate the
award and Professor Wang’s academic accomplishment will be held at UC
Berkeley on February 7, 2025.

The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is deeply grateful to all the
authors and publishers who participated in this round of competition.  We
will soon make a separate announcement launching next year’s competition,
which will be open to submissions of Korean Studies books published in 2023
and 2024.




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Jinsoo An
Associate Professor
The Korea Foundation Chancellor's Chair in Korean Language & Culture
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chair, Center for Korean Studies
UC Berkeley
https://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/jinsoo

*Parameters of Disavowal* (Open Access Edition)
https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.51/
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