Space and Location in the Circulation of Knowledge (1400-1800) ― Korea and Beyond

Launching the new series, six essays emerging from a German research project explore the role of spatial factors in the paradigm of knowledge circulation as it applies to Korea and its region during the early modern period. They cover early Choson painting, social reorganization, and the knowledge of Chinese literati arts; the circulation of military knowledge and its localization in late Choson Korea; the assimilation of Qing military technology in Choson during the 17th and 18th centuries; Qing imperial approaches to technological knowledge circulation; the prohibited sect of Yaso: Catholicism in diplomatic and cultural encounters between Edo Japan and Choson Korea from the 17th century to the 19th; and Sin Hudam's Kimunp'yon as an illustration of text and orality in the early reception of Western learning within the Namin faction. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Marion Eggert is professor of Korean Studies at Bochum University (Germany). She has published on Korean and Chinese literature, especially travel literature and intellectual history, as well as on literary and intellectual transactions within East Asia.
Felix Siegmund currently teaches Chinese history at Bochum University. He researches on military knowledge in northern East Asia in the 17th century and has published on Korean agrarian history and on Manchu translations.
Dennis Wurthner is a researcher and lecturer for Korean Studies at Bochum University. His research interests include the modes and forms of pre-modern literary transformation of Korean texts.