SOAS’s Centre of Korean Studies has announced its seminar programme for the first few months of 2016: Date Speaker Topic 22 Jan Professor Hazel Smith North Korea: Markets and Military Rule 29 Jan Dr. Janet Poole Picturing a Moment: The Photograph and the Newspaper in Early Colonial Korea 5 Feb Patrick Messerlin, Jimmyn Parc The … [Read More]
Author: Martina Deuchler
Selected publications by Martina Deuchler
- Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea, Harvard University Press 2015
- The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology, Harvard University Press 1992
Dec 07 BAKS conference report #1: Martina Deuchler
Professor Martina Deuchler – Professor of Korean Emerita & Professorial Research Associate, SOAS The social in society: some reflections on the meaning of descent groups in Korean history Abstract: The presentation will focus on the history of what I call the Korean “descent group” (ssijok) and trace its evolution from early Korea (Silla and Koryŏ, … [Read More]