{"id":18870,"date":"2025-08-18T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:01:20","slug":"seeing-like-an-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/seeing-like-an-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Like an Official: Huang Zhen, the Southern Song State, and Limits of Governance in Thirteenth-Century China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18871\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250828_poster-768x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250828_poster-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250828_poster-768x576-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250828_poster-768x576-160x120.png 160w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250828_poster-768x576-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 99vw, 768px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date: <\/strong>August\u00a028th, Thursday, 2025, 10:00 &#8211; 12:00<\/li>\n<li><b>Location: <\/b>Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Presenter: Sukhee Lee (Rutgers Univ.)<br \/>\nModerator\/Discussant: Ho Kim (SNUAC)<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"836\">The core aim of this book talk is to examine how the medieval Chinese state was maintained and operated \u201cfrom below.\u201d The presenter approaches the state through the records of Huang Zhen (\u9ec3\u9707, 1213\u20131281), a local official in the late Southern Song. Huang\u2019s meticulous administrative records stand as some of the most detailed sources for understanding the period, and they reveal how the Southern Song responded pragmatically and flexibly to challenges such as the expansion of the scholar-official elite, the failure of the New Policies (\u65b0\u6cd5), and intensifying external threats. To frame this, the presenter applies James Scott\u2019s concepts of \u201cpractical knowledge, informal procedures, and improvisation amid unpredictability\u201d to highlight the adaptability of Southern Song governance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1057\">The presenter, Professor Sukhee Lee (Department of History, Rutgers University, USA), was born in Korea, completed his B.A. and M.A. in History at Yonsei University, and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: August\u00a028th, Thursday, 2025, 10:00 &#8211; 12:00 Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Presenter: Sukhee Lee (Rutgers Univ.) Moderator\/Discussant: Ho Kim (SNUAC) The core aim of this book talk is to examine how the medieval Chinese state was maintained and operated \u201cfrom below.\u201d The presenter approaches the state through the records of Huang Zhen (\u9ec3\u9707, 1213\u20131281), a local official in the late Southern Song. Huang\u2019s meticulous administrative records stand as some of the most detailed sources for understanding the period, and they reveal how the Southern Song responded pragmatically and flexibly to challenges such as the expansion of the scholar-official elite, the failure of the New Policies (\u65b0\u6cd5), and intensifying external threats. To frame this, the presenter applies James Scott\u2019s concepts of \u201cpractical knowledge, informal procedures, and improvisation amid unpredictability\u201d to highlight the adaptability of Southern Song governance. The presenter,&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18870","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\/18870","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=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18872,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions\/18872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}