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Christopher Lovins 李讚優 – Assistant Professor of Korean History and Civilization. About Me. I am an independent scholar based in Georgia. I have taught courses on (East) Asian and Korean history at the University of British Columbia, Oberlin College, and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology.
Apr 16, 2020 · And the first title I reached for was Christopher Lovins’s King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea, which came out in paperback this year.
Curriculum Vitae. Christopher Lovins. University of British Columbia, Asian Studies, Assistant Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. Download.
Christopher Lovins 李讚優. Assistant Professor of Korean History and Civilization
Nov 1, 2019 · Christopher Lovins's King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea is therefore a welcome addition to the scholarship. Lovins observes that South Korean scholars of the post-liberation period (1945–), too, largely avoided the investigation of the eighteenth-century monarchy, as they were deeply influenced by the Japanese colonial ...
Aug 13, 2020 · The book begins with the reign of Chosŏn’s founder, T’aejo (r. 1392−1398), and proceeds through the centuries up to the present-day living descendants of the royal Wang family. Chapter 1 addresses the immediate aftermath of the dynastic transition.
Using a comparative perspective that places Chŏngjo, king of Korea from 1776 to 1800, in context with other Korean kings and with contemporary Chinese and European rulers, Christopher Lovins examines the shifting balance of power in Korea in favor of the crown at the expense of the aristocracy during the early modern period.
