• Date: November 12th, Tuesday, 2019 15:00-17:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

2019 ICAS Book Prize Korean Edition Winners’ Book Talk Series 1

Jae-hoon Shim, From a Vassal to the Hegemon: The Birth and Rise of the State of Jin in Early China. Ilchokak Publishing, 2018.

Hyoung-chong Kim, A Study on the Joint-Investigations of the Korea-China Borders in the 1880s. Seoul National University Press, 2018.

SNUAC has planned a book talk series for outstanding scholarly publications for the purpose of introducing 2019 ICAS Book Prize Korean Edition winners to researchers and readers in Korea.

In the first event of the series held on November 12th, Professor Jae-hoon Shim (Dept. of History, Dankook University) and Professor Hyoung-chong Kim (Dept. of Asian History, Seoul National University) were invited to give talks on their publications.

Prof. Shim talked about the background of his research, the process of completing his book after 25 years of research, episodes that took place while he was writing, as well as giving a detailed and interesting introduction of his book that newly interprets the ancient Chinese dynasty of Jin.

Prof. Kim explained his interesting suggestion on how the problem of boundaries between Joseon and Qing came to rise even after the establishment of the Hoarstone of Mt. Baekdu and how it was resolved. Especially, he pointed out that problems in Korea-China borders can arise anytime, emphasizing that the border issue is both history and an ongoing matter.

SNUAC has hosted and judged ICAS Book Prize Korean Edition since 2017, with the purpose of proliferating Asia studies in Korea and introducing outstanding Korean research to foreign researchers. 2019 ICAS  Book Prize Korean Edition received 51 books written in Korean and published from November 2016 to October 2018 from 23 domestic publishers. An independent judge committee of four experts carried out an impartial evaluation to select 6 outstanding books.

2019 ICAS  Book Prize Korean Edition Webpage

https://icas.asia/en/shortlist-and-winner-korean-language-edition-ibp2019