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Jahyun K. Haboush
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies
Columbia University
East Asian Lang-Cult
URL:
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Biography
Jahyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies (EALAC), is a cultural historian of pre- and early modern
Korea
, particularly from 16th to 19th centuries. She is also interested in and teaches literature. Professor Haboush received her MA from the
University
of
Michigan
(1970) and Ph.D. from
Columbia
(1978). Her current areas of interest include political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Her publications include: A Heritage of Kings: One Man’s Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988); The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001); and The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), for which she won the Korean Arts and Culture Foundation’s Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism. She also co-edited: The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985); Culture and the State in Late Chosôn Korea (1999); and Women in Pre-Modern Confucian Cultures in
China
,
Korea
, and
Japan
(2003).
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