JaHyun Kim Haboush

JaHyun Kim Haboush Korean: 김자현, 金滋炫; 1940 in Seoul, Korea – 2011 in New York City) was a Korean-American scholar of Korean history and literature in the United States. Haboush was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University when she died on January 30, 2011.^[1][2]

Biography

Haboush attended Ewha Womans University and studied English literature in Seoul. She studied Chinese literature at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with an M.A. in Chinese Literature under the supervision of Professor James Crump in 1970. Haboush obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 1978 under Professor Gary Ledyard. She went on to teach at Queens College of the City University of New York, The University at Albany, and the University of Illinois before her return to Columbia as a professor in 2000.^[1]

Work

Haboush has contributed extensively to the fields of Korean studies, Korean history and literature, and gender studies. Her important writings include the books The Confucian Kingship in Korea, the paperback edition of her 1988 monograph, A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World on the reign of King Yeongjo of Joseon of the Joseon dynasty, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea, a translation of the Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong. Her scholarly work also includes several edited volumes related to the history and literature of early modern Korea, including Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea, Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan, and Epistolary Korea: Letters from the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392-1910.^[2]

Select Bibliography

Books

• The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985). Coeditor. New York: Columbia University Press.
• A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988). New York: Columbia University Press.
• The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996). Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea Coeditor. (1999). Asia Center: Harvard University.
• The Confucian Kingship in Korea (2001). New York: Columbia University Press.
• Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan. Coeditor. (2003) Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Epistolary Korea: Letters from the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910. Editor. (2009) New York: Columbia University Press

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