{"id":14331,"date":"2021-04-29T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=14331"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:40","slug":"literary-flourish-in-the-adjudication-of-homicide-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/literary-flourish-in-the-adjudication-of-homicide-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Flourish in the Adjudication of Homicide Cases: Analyzing the Structure and Purpose of Closing Statements (palsa) and Decision Statements (chesa) in late Chos\u014fn Inquest Records (k\u014fman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/literary-flourish-in-the-adjudication-of-homicide-cases\/20210502_poster\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14332 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210502_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1191\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210502_poster.png 1191w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210502_poster-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210502_poster-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210502_poster-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210502_poster-400x283.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 99vw, (max-width: 900px) 98vw, 876px\" \/><\/a>Date:<\/strong> May 4th, Tuesday, 2021 12:00 &#8211; 13:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"u_row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"667lj-0-0\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"belie\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"667lj-0-0\">\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0Tony Qian (Fulbright U.S. Scholar)<\/p>\n<p>Late Chos\u014fn inquest records (k\u014fmsi munan \u6aa2\u5c4d\u6587\u6848, or k\u014fman) were legal reports detailing the examination of corpses in homicide cases while also containing the testimonies of suspects and witnesses, and the closing statements (palsa \u8dcb\u8fad) (i.e., verdicts) of magistrates. Often the decision statements (chesa \u984c\u8fad) of the provincial governor are also appended in response to the magistrate\u2019s conclusions. Previous studies have examined inquest records for insights into the lives of ordinary people and their attitudes toward law in the late Chos\u014fn. Few, however, have focused on the narrative and rhetorical strategies in the palsa and chesa, where officials analyzed the evidence and justified their decisions in stylized prose. By looking at select inquest records, this talk presents the claim that the palsa and chesa were at once means of demonstrating the cultural and moral authority of the decisionmaker and attempts to impose a singular judicial logic on cases that were filled with ambiguities and<br \/>\ntensions. It views the literary flourish in these texts as a way to persuade other officials who have the same classical Confucian training that a decision was not just judicially, but also morally, correct.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Qian is currently a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and a visiting scholar at Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC) from January 2021. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2013 and Ph.D. in comparative literature at Harvard in 2017. After completing his dissertation on legal judgments and rhetoric in the early Roman Empire and the Tang, he has given numerous talks, and published journal articles, on premodern Chinese legal culture, including his latest article in T\u2019oung Pao, \u201cMoral Sensibilities, Emotions, and the Law: Extralegal Considerations in Tang Literary Judgments on Spousal Relationships.\u201d His current research focuses on literati and legal culture in the Chinese late imperial period and late Chos\u014fn, in particular, the narrative and rhetorical strategies found in judicial decisions and case narratives. He is also working on a project on the influence of Neo-Confucian thought and classical education on judicial administration in both late imperial China and Chos\u014fn Korea, exploring law-related texts as part of the literati culture in which they were produced. He has taught Chinese literature at both Harvard and Tufts University, and is also a recipient<br \/>\nof fellowships from the Korea Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: May 4th, Tuesday, 2021 12:00 &#8211; 13:00 Location: Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Speaker:\u00a0Tony Qian (Fulbright U.S. Scholar) Late Chos\u014fn inquest records (k\u014fmsi munan \u6aa2\u5c4d\u6587\u6848, or k\u014fman) were legal reports detailing the examination of corpses in homicide cases while also containing the testimonies of suspects and witnesses, and the closing statements (palsa \u8dcb\u8fad) (i.e., verdicts) of magistrates. Often the decision statements (chesa \u984c\u8fad) of the provincial governor are also appended in response to the magistrate\u2019s conclusions. Previous studies have examined inquest records for insights into the lives of ordinary people and their attitudes toward law in the late Chos\u014fn. Few, however, have focused on the narrative and rhetorical strategies in the palsa and chesa, where officials analyzed the evidence and justified their decisions in stylized prose. By looking at select inquest records, this talk presents the claim&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14334,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions\/14334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}