All Stories

  1. Korea and Early Modernity
  2. Nanxiu Qian, Richard J. Smith, and Bowei Zhang, eds. Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2020.
  3. King Chongjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea. By Christopher Lovins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxiv, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781438473635 (cloth).
  4. Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
  5. Chosŏn’s Office of Interpreters: The Apt Response and the Knowledge Culture of Diplomacy
  6. Compiling Diplomacy: Record-Keeping and Archival Practices in Chosŏn Korea
  7. Korean eunuchs as imperial envoys
  8. Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn
  9. What Tang Taizong Could Not Do: The Korean Surrender of 1259 and the Imperial Tradition
  10. Soyoung Suh, Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century
  11. Under the Ancestors' Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea. By Martina Deuchler. Harvard East Asian Monographs 378. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xviii, 609 pp. ISBN: 9780674504301 (cloth).
  12. 3 The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge, and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea