{"id":460,"date":"2023-05-25T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:36:20","slug":"commemoration-in-early-choson-political-culture-how-kim-sisup-became-a-loyal-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/commemoration-in-early-choson-political-culture-how-kim-sisup-became-a-loyal-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration in Early Chos\u014fn Political Culture: How Kim Sis\u016dp Became a Loyal Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2023<\/strong> \u201cCommemoration in Early Chos\u014fn Political Culture: How Kim Sis\u016dp Became a Loyal Official.\u201d In <em><strong>Lives and Legacy of Kim Sis\u016dp: Dissent and Creativity in Chos\u014fn Korea<\/strong><\/em>. Edited by Vladimir Glomb and Miriam L\u00f6wensteinov\u00e1. Brill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/edcollbook\/title\/62481\">https:\/\/brill.com\/edcollbook\/title\/62481<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one of the Six Surviving Subjects (<em>saengyuksin<\/em>), Kim Sis\u016dp has long been identified with loyalism, but such a multifaceted figure resists reduction to a single label. This chapter examines the construction of Kim Sis\u016dp\u2019s memory as a loyalist figure during the Chos\u014fn period, one which coalesced only gradually over the centuries after his death. By dissecting the process of Kim\u2019s elevation, it teases out critical aspects of early Chos\u014fn political culture, in particular the shifting ground between Confucian moral ideals and the authority of Korean kingship, as well as the domination of the&nbsp;<em>sarim<\/em>-centered narratives in the historiography of early Chos\u014fn history. They point to how the Chos\u014fn past has been filtered by the agendas of historical actors that framed political conflict in moral terms. The result was in a historical record that is less documentary than recursive\u2014that is to say, how historical memory became site of repeated revisionism is what explains Kim Sis\u016dp\u2019s eventual apotheosis as an exemplary loyalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sis\u016dp (1435\u20131493)<\/em>&nbsp;offers an account of the most extraordinary figure of Korean literature and intellectual history. The present work narrates the fascinating story of a prodigious child, acclaimed poet, author of the first Korean novel, Buddhist monk, model subject, Confucian recluse and Daoist master. No other Chos\u014fn scholar or writer has been venerated in both Confucian shrines and Buddhist temples, had his works widely read in Tokugawa Japan and became an integral part of the North Korean literary canon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The nine studies and further materials presented in this volume provide a detailed look on the various aspects of Kim Sis\u016dp\u2019s life and work as well as a reflection of both traditional and modern narratives surrounding his legacy. Contributors are: Vladim\u00edr Glomb, Gregory N. Evon, Dennis Wuerthner, Barbara Wall, Kim Daeyeol, Miriam L\u00f6wensteinov\u00e1, Anastasia A. Guryeva, Sixiang Wang, and Diana Y\u00fcksel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 \u201cCommemoration in Early Chos\u014fn Political Culture: How Kim Sis\u016dp Became a Loyal Official.\u201d In Lives and Legacy of Kim&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/commemoration-in-early-choson-political-culture-how-kim-sisup-became-a-loyal-official\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commemoration in Early Chos\u014fn Political Culture: How Kim Sis\u016dp Became a Loyal Official<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","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":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-chapters","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lives-and-legacies.jpg?fit=664%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Nhqs-7q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":290,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/boundless-winds-of-empire-rhetoric-and-ritual-in-early-choson-diplomacy-with-ming-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":460,"position":0},"title":"Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chos\u014fn Diplomacy with Ming China","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"November 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"2023. 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