{"id":260,"date":"2022-03-07T02:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T02:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?p=260"},"modified":"2022-03-07T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T02:08:08","slug":"korea-vietnam-working-group-connections-and-comparisons-in-humanities-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/korea-vietnam-working-group-connections-and-comparisons-in-humanities-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea-Vietnam Working Group: Connections and Comparisons in Humanities scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The histories of Korea and Vietnam are marked by many parallels. Before the traumas of division, civil war, and colonial occupation in the modern period, both were countries of \u201cmanifest civility,\u201d polities ruled by an elite who prided themselves as cultural heirs to a Confucian antiquity. Both were countries touched by the scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Both confronted across uncertain boundaries an imperial China that was at once an existential threat and a source of cultural inspiration. Behind these parallels are also stark differences in historical trajectory, but little work in cultural or literary history have sought to place Vietnam and Korea\u2019s early modern past in proper comparison. The group aims not only to put scholars of both countries in dialogue with one another, but to create a framework for meaningful collaboration across fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvg.network\/\">https:\/\/www.kvg.network\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The histories of Korea and Vietnam are marked by many parallels. Before the traumas of division, civil war, and colonial&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/korea-vietnam-working-group-connections-and-comparisons-in-humanities-scholarship\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Korea-Vietnam Working Group: Connections and Comparisons in Humanities scholarship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborative-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Nhqs-4c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/korea-and-vietnam-before-the-twentieth-century-comparisons-and-connections\/","url_meta":{"origin":260,"position":0},"title":"Korea and Vietnam before the Twentieth Century: Comparisons and Connections","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"March 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This event series brings together scholars interested in Korean-Vietnamese in dialogue with one another from across North America, Europe, and Asia in order to develop a framework for meaningful future collaboration. 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