 | The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation Subjects: Korea -- History -- Japanese Invasions 15921598; Korea -- History -- Japanese Invasions 15921598 -- Influence; Korea -- History -- Manchu Invasions 16271637; Nationalism -- Korea -- History -- 16th century; Nationalism -- Korea -- History -- 17th ce; JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. This book instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty. JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940-2011) was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her Columbia University Press publications include A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597-1600: The Writings of Kang Hang (2013); Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosôn, 1392-1910 (2009); The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001); and A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988). William J. Haboush is professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jisoo M. Kim is the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. |
