{"id":303,"date":"2022-11-22T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:06:43","slug":"for-prospective-graduate-students-faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/for-prospective-graduate-students-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"For Prospective Graduate Students (FAQ)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQ for Prospective Graduate Students<br>interested in premodern Korean history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updated for December 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only applies to those interested in studying Premodern Korean history with me at the PhD level in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures @ UCLA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answers here reflect my PERSONAL thoughts on the INTELLECTUAL direction of the field, my current status, and my own reflections on what is viable. They do not represent UCLA policy or department policy. For questions on these matters, as well as procedural and institutional matters, please see our department webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alc.ucla.edu\/\">https:\/\/www.alc.ucla.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you consider graduate studies, also consider Perry&#8217;s (1968) ideas of &#8220;intellectual and ethical development.&#8221; Where are you on this ladder? What stage is necessary for graduate studies and (perhaps) a subsequent career in academia?<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"369\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/for-prospective-graduate-students-faq\/image\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?fit=800%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?fit=410%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?resize=410%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?resize=410%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 410w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?resize=120%2C300&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?resize=768%2C1920&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Inspired by Eric Schluessel, based on Perry (1968); created by Michael Hancock-Parmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQ updated December 2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q. Are you accepting PhD Students?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. Yes, but admissions, as always, is competitve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q. What kind of projects are you interested in advising?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. Premodern Korean history is basically a wide-open field in Anglophone academia. I am interested in projects that demonstrate the potential to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><ul>\n<li>Develop a new paradigm for thinking about Korea\u2019s past<\/li>\n<li>Bring premodern Korean studies into dialogue with other area fields<\/li>\n<li>Think about connections between Korea\u2019s premodern past and Korea\u2019s present that goes beyond intellectual historiography<\/li>\n<li>Approach premodern Korean history in ways that uses underused source material, uses commonly-used source material creatively, uses a variety of source material in unconventional ways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q. What skills should a candidate have?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. Competence in Korean and literary\/classical Chinese are a must. Solid research skills in the humanities or social sciences and ability to write about the subject in English. Graduate training can help develop or mitigate weaknesses in one of the four areas above, but not all four. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also think robust experience with one other &#8220;discipline&#8221; would be very helpful: e.g.&nbsp; a STEM field, another historical area, another literary tradition, professional experience (finance, comp sci, NGO, publishing, diplomacy, fieldwork, missionary work, military deployment etc. etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q. What kind of questions and topics have you been thinking about and wish there were PhD students studying?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. Lots. not in order of value\/interest. Just things I&#8217;ve been thinking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><ul>\n<li>Computational approaches to modeling and simulating Chos\u014fn dynasty social strategies<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVernacular\u201d political theology: Chos\u014fn\u2019s subaltern perspectives on political order and what it entails<\/li>\n<li>Cultural history approaches to Korean science and knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Korea\u2019s seas and mountains<\/li>\n<li>A non-linear, non-positivist (e.g. economic progress-oriented) treatment of premodern Korea\u2019s economic history; something that takes seriously non-monetary institutions, vernacular practices of social and economic organization.<\/li>\n<li>Cultural-intellectual history of the mid to late nineteenth century that isn\u2019t a history of \u201cfailure\u201d or modernity. Something that works with hanmun sources\u2026<\/li>\n<li>The scholarship of Chos\u014fn writers etc. found in their commentaries of the Confucian classics.<\/li>\n<li>Something that genuinely surprises me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>And finally<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Thinking about Korean connections with the world that don\u2019t rely on the concept of \u201ctributary system.\u201d Yes, I know my research has been oriented around Chos\u014fn-Ming relations, but do realize its whole point is to try to get us out of that \u201cbox.\u201d So if you want to do a project, however brilliant and worthwhile, in that \u201cbox,\u201d I\u2019m just not going to be interested in advising. There are other places to go for this.\nFWIW, here is a reading list for early modern Sino-Korean relations (update July 8, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b0b7790a-62f3-4107-88f6-14b1f991c188\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sino-Korean-Relations-Reading-List.docx\">Sino-Korean-Relations-Reading-List<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Sino-Korean-Relations-Reading-List.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b0b7790a-62f3-4107-88f6-14b1f991c188\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAQ for Prospective Graduate Studentsinterested in premodern Korean history Updated for December 2022 Only applies to those interested in studying&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/for-prospective-graduate-students-faq\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Prospective Graduate Students (FAQ)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8Nhqs-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":0},"title":"About","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"May 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u738b\u601d\u7fd4 Associate Professor Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Ph.D., Columbia University Cultural, literary, intellectual, and political history of Chos\u014fn period Korea, literary culture in East Asia, Sino-Korean relations, science and knowledge production in early modern East Asia, comparative empire, and the history of diplomacy.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/photo-3-1-e1496219381254-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":249,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/collaborative-projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":1},"title":"Collaborative Projects","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"March 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"UCLA Korean History and Culture Digital Museum The aim of the Korean History and Culture Digital Museum is to bridge the widening gulf between public and academic knowledge. 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