From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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> February 12, 2011
>
> Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush
>
> (courtesy of Kristin Stapleton)
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> Ed. note: I have drawn together material from two sites at Columbia
> University concerning the passing of Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush, a
> prolific and influential scholar of Korean civilization. I hope that
> we may receive a more personal obituary note from one of her students or
> colleagues, but in the interim, I hope this will provide suitable
> notice of this sad news. FFC
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Frank Conlon
>
> The webpage of the Columbia University Department of East Asian Languages
> and Cultures contains the following noteL
>
> January 31st, 2011
>
> It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of JaHyun Kim
> Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, on January 30th, 2011,
> after a valiant struggle against breast cancer. A valued member of the
> EALAC faculty and leading figure in Korean studies, Professor Haboush?s
> loss is irretrievably sad for all of us personally and for the department.
>
> Information regarding the memorial service will follow when available.
> Sympathy cards may be sent to her husband, Bill Haboush, at the following
> address:
>
> Bill Haboush
> 315 West 70th Street, Apt. 9B
> New York, NY 10023
>
> [modified from Columbia University EALAC Department Website):
>
> Jahyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies (EALAC), was a
> cultural historian of pre- and early modern Korea , particularly from 16th
> to 19th centuries. She was also interested in and teaches literature.
> Professor Haboush received her MA from the University of Michigan (1970)
> and Ph.D. from Columbia (1978). Her current areas of interest include
> political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and
> ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Her publications include: A
> Heritage of Kings: One Mans Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988); The
> Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001);
> and The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown
> Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), for which she won the Korean
> Arts and Culture Foundations Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism. She
> also co-edited: The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985); Culture and
> the State in Late Chosn Korea (1999); and Women in Pre-Modern Confucian
> Cultures in China , Korea , and Japan (2003).
>
> From Columbia Univ esity website
>
> <http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/02/07/
> korean-professor-haboush-remembered-love-new-york-culture>
>
> Korean professor Haboush remembered for love of New York culture Professor
> JaHyun Kim Haboush died on Jan. 30 after a battle with breast cancer.
> By Karla Jimenez
>
> Published February 7, 2011
>
> A fan of Korean pansori ballad singing and a lover of New York City,
> Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush was remembered by colleagues and friends last
> week as an outstanding Korean scholar and a dedicated Columbian.
>
> Haboush, King Sejong professor of Korean studies, died on Jan. 30 after a
> battle with breast cancer. She is survived by her husband, Bill Haboush.
>
> Professor JaHyun Kim Haboush was elegant in every respect, from personal
> style to matters of intellect and expression, adjunct professor of
> anthropology Laurel Kendall, who had known Haboush since they were both
> graduate students, said in an email.
>
> Haboush, a member of the East Asian Languages and Cultures faculty,
> specialized in Koreas cultural history from the 16th to 19th centuries.
> She received her M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970 and her
> Ph.D. from Columbia in 1978, going on to teach at Rutgers University and
> the University of Illinois before her return to Columbia as a professor in
> 2000.
>
> She came to Columbia and really brought great energy and prominence to the
> Korean program, said associate professor of Korean studies Charles
> Armstrong, who holds Haboushs former position.
>
> Haboush had published numerous books and was still working on new
> material, all while teaching a full course load.
>
> She passed away at the peak of her career, at the peak of her
> productivity, Armstrong said. She was a very valuable colleague and one of
> the leading scholars on Korean studies in the nation and the world.
>
> Jisoo Kim, a professor at George Washington University and Haboush's
> former student, remembered that she had an interesting method of getting
> her students to think more deeply during seminar discussions.
>
> When her students would say something, she would pull her face and make a
> frown or face. If she did that it meant we said something wrong or dumb
> and we had to reshape our thoughts, Kim said, explaining that it was
> Haboush's way of getting her students to make compelling arguments.
>
> According to colleagues, Haboush brought an original curiosity to her
> field--one that extended beyond the academic realm.
>
> She had a deep love of Korea, reflected not only in her work but in her
> exquisite taste in Korean art and her enthusiasm for pansori ballad
> singing, Kendall said, recalling a performance by the singer Chan Park at
> a party in Haboushs apartment.
>
> Kendall also remembered Haboushs knowledge of the city, calling her the
> most thoroughly cultured New Yorker that I have ever known.
>
> Chun-fang Yu, Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhism, worked with Haboush
> on several projects and said that she was passionate about New York's
> theater, fashion, and music.
>
> We spent much time going to the opera, movies, and explored the cultural
> riches of New York on weekends and during vacations, Yu said in an email.
>
> Kendall added that Haboush was known for working well with colleagues.
>
> I was her junior and always felt in awe of her but also felt that she was
> cheering me on, Kendall said. She was a good friend with a warm and rich
> sense of humor.
>
> The Department mourns her deeply, Haboushs EALAC faculty listing now
> reads.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Some works by the late JaHyun Kim Haboush:
>
> Lee, Soyoung, 1971-
> Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600 / Soyoung Lee ; with
> essays by JaHyun Kim Haboush, Sunpyo Hong, and Chin-Sung Chang.
> New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University
> Press, c2009.
> Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan
> Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 17-June 21, 2009.
> Creating a society of civil culture : the early Joseon, 1392-1592
> / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Art and patronage in the early Joseon /
> Soyoung Lee -- Peace under heaven : Confucianism and painting
> in early Joseon Korea / Sunpyo Hong and Chin-Sung Chang --
> Checklist of objects in the exhibition / Soyoung Lee.
> ISBN 9781588393104 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
> ISBN 1588393100 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
> ISBN 9780300148916 (Yale University Press (hc))
> ISBN 0300148917 (Yale University Press (hc))
>
> Culture and the state in late Choson Korea / JaHyun Kim Haboush &
> Martina Deuchler, editors.
> Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.
> Harvard East Asian monographs ; 182.
> Harvard-Hallym series on Korean studies.
>
> Epistolary Korea : letters in the communicative space of the
> Choson, 1392-1910 / edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush.
> New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
> ISBN 9780231148023 (cloth : alk. paper)
> ISBN 023114802X (cloth : alk. paper)
> ISBN 9780231148030 (pbk.)
> ISBN 0231148038 (pbk.)
> ISBN 9780231519595 (electronic)
>
> Hyegyonggung Hong Ssi, 1735-1815.
> The memoirs of Lady Hyegyong : the autobiographical writings of a Crown
> Princess of eighteenth-century Korea /
> translated with an introduction and annotations by JaHyun Kim
> Haboush.
> Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
> ISBN 0520200543 (alk. paper)
> ISBN 0520200551 (pbk. : alk. paper)
>
> Haboush, JaHyun Kim.
> The Confucian kingship in Korea : Yongjo and the politics of
> sagacity / JaHyun Kim Haboush.
> New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.
> Originally published as: A heritage of kings.
> ISBN 0231066570 (paper)
> ISBN 0231066562 (cloth)
>
> Haboush, JaHyun Kim.
> A heritage of kings : one man's monarchy in the Confucian world /
> New York : Columbia University Press, 1988.
> ISBN 0231066562 (alk. paper)
>
> The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea / Wm. Theodore de Bary and
> JaHyun Kim Haboush, editors.
> New York : Columbia University Press, 1985.
> ISBN 0231060521 (alk. paper)
>
> Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan
> / edited by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott.
> Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
> Pt. 1. Scripts of male dominance. The patriarchal family
> paradigm in eighth-century Japan / Hiroko Sekiguchi ; The last
> classical female sovereign: K?ken-Sh?toku Tenn? / Joan R.
> Piggott ; Representation of females in twelfth-century Korean
> historiography / Hai-soon Lee -- The presence and absence of
> female musicians and music in China / Joseph S.C. Lam -- Pt. 2.
> Propagating Confucian virtues. Woomen and the transmission of
> Confucian culture in Song China / Jian Zang ; Propagating
> female virtues in Chos?n Korea / Martina Deuchler ; State
> indoctrination of filial piety in Tokugawa Japan: sons and
> daughters in the Official records of filial piety / Noriko
> Sugano -- Pt. 3. Female education in practice. Norms and texts
> for women's education in Tokugawa Japan / Martha C. Tocco ;
> Competing claims on womanly virtue in late imperial China /
> Fangqin Du and Susan Mann -- Pt. 4. Corporeal and textual
> expressions of female subjectivity. Discipline and
> transformation: body and practice in the lives of Daoist holy
> women of Tang China / Suzanne E. Cahill ; Versions and
> subversions: patriarchy and polygamy in Korean narratives / JaHyan
> Kim Haboush.
> ISBN 0520231058 (cloth : alk. paper)
> ISBN 0520231384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Articles (other than those published within the books cited above)
>
> "The Sirhak Movement of the late Yi dynasty"
> _Korean Culture_ (Los Angeles, CA) 8:2 1987 pp. 20-27
> Vol: 8, no.2 (Sum
> <ISSN>0270-1618</ISSN>
>
> "Filial emotions and filial values: changing patterns in the discourse of
> filiality in late Choson Korea"
> _Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies_ (Cambridge, MA) 55:1 (Jun 1995)
> pp 129-177
> <ISSN>0073-0548</ISSN>
>
>
> "Yun Hyu and the search for dominance: a seventeenth-century Korean
> reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou"
> In: Elman, Benjamin A.; Kern, Martin, eds. _Statecraft and classical
> learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history_.
> Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2010.
> pp. 309-329
>
>
>
> "Pre-modern national identity? Problems of conceptualization in Korean
> history"
> In: _Sae ch'onny?on Han'gugin ?ui chongch'es?ong: che 11-hoe Han'gukhak
> Kukche Haksul Hoe?ui nonmunjip = Korean identity in the new millennium:
> proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Korean Studies_.
> Kyonggi-do Songnam-si: Han'guk Ch?ongsin Munhwa Y?on'guw?on, 2001. pp.
> 57-64
>
> "Filial emotions and filial values: changing patterns in the discourse of
> filiality in late Choson Korea"
> In: Corrigan, John, ed. _Religion and emotion: approaches and
> interpretations_. New York; Oxford, England: Oxford University Press,
> 2004. pp 75-113
>
> "The Confucianization of Korean society"
> In: Rozman, Gilbert, ed. _The East Asian region: Confucian heritage and
> its modern adaptation_. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1991.
> pp. 84-110
>
> "Dead bodies in the postwar discourse of identity in seventeenth-century
> Korea: subversion and literary production in the private sector [Talch'on
> mongyurok (Dream Journey to Talch'on) by Yun Kyeson, P'isaeng mongyurok
> (Mr. P'i's Dream Journey), and Kangdo mongyurok (Dream Journey to Kanghwa
> Island] _Journal of Asian Studies_ 62,2 (May 2003)
> pp. 415-442
> <ISSN>0021-9118</ISSN>
>
>
> "Constructing the center: the ritual controversy and the search for a new
> identity in seventeenth-century Korea"
> In: Haboush, JaHyun Kim; Deuchler, Martina, eds. _Culture and the state in
> late Choson Korea_ Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.
> pp. 46-90
>
> "In search of history in democratic Korea: the discourse of modernity in
> contemporary historical fiction"
> In: Chow, Kai-wing; Doak, Kevin M.; Fu, Poshek, eds. _Constructing
> nationhood in modern East Asia_. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
> 2001.
> pp. 189-214
>
>
> "Gender and language in historical narratives in Korea"
> In: Conference of AKSE (17th: 1995: Prague, Czech Republic). _17th
> conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe: abstracts:
> Prague, April 21-25, 1995_. Prague: Institute of East Asian Studies,
> Charles University, 1995.
> pp. 76-79
>
>
> "Private memory and public history: the memoirs of Lady Hyegy?ong and
> testimonial literature"
> In: Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, ed. Creative women of Korea: the fifteenth
> through the twentieth centuries. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
> pp. 122-141
>
>
> "Confucian rhetoric and ritual as techniques of political dominance:
> Yongjo's use of the royal lecture", _Journal of Korean Studies_ (Seattle)
> 5 (1984) pp. 39-62
>
> "Rescoring the universal in a Korean mode: eighteenth-century Korean
> culture"
> In: Kim, Hongnam, ed. _Korean arts of the eighteenth century: splendor
> & simplicity_. New York: Weatherhill: Asia Society Galleries, 1993.
> pp. 23-33
>
> "Contesting Chinese time, nationalizing temporal space: temporal
> inscription in late Choson Korea"
> In: Struve, Lynn A., ed. _Time, temporality, and imperial transition: East
> Asia from Ming to Qing_. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; Ann Arbor,
> Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, 2005. (Asian interactions and
> comparisons)
> pp. 115-141
>
> "Gender and the politics of language in Choson Korea"
> In: Elman, Benjamin A.; Duncan, John B.; Ooms, Herman, eds. _Rethinking
> Confucianism: past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam_. Los
> Angeles: University of California, 2002.
> (UCLA Asian Pacific monograph series)
> pp. 220-257
>
> "Perceptions of Korean culture in the United States"
> _Korea Focus_ (Seoul) 1.2 (1983)
> pp. 72-86
> <ISSN>1225-8113</ISSN>
>
> "The dual nature of cultural discourse in Choson Korea"
> In: Luk, Bernard Hung-Kay, ed._ Contacts between cultures. Volume 4.
> Eastern Asia: history and social sciences_. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen
> Press, 1992.
> pp. 194-196
>
> E&OE I wish to acknowledge the Bibliography of Asian Studies for
> these citations--with the note that the BAS actually includes many
> other materials which are in the collected volumes which Professor
> JaHyun Kim Haboush edited. FFC
>
> Frank F. Conlon
> Frank F. Conlon
> Professor Emeritus of History, South Asian
> Studies & Comparative Religion
> University of Washington
> Seattle, WA 98195-3560 USA
> Co-editor, H-ASIA
> Managing Director, Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
>
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