Overview
Hyun-ho Joo’s research and teaching interests lie in modern Korean history from a comparative East Asian perspective, the history of Sino-Korean relations, cultural interactions between China and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and modern Chinese and Korean intellectual history. Before he joined Cornell in 2024, he was a Professor at Yonsei University in South Korea. At Yonsei, he published two dozen academic articles and won the Outstanding Teaching Award twice (2012, 2014). In 2023, he was awarded The 2022 Wang Gungwu Prize by the Asian Studies Association of Australia for his paper, “Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech” (Asian Studies Review 46.2 (2022)).
Publications
Articles
“Reexamining the Position of the Shenbao in the History of Modern Chinese Newspapers,” Yŏllin chŏngsin inmunhak yŏn’gu [Wonkwang Journal of Humanities] 24.1: 175–201 (2023)
“Invoking the China-Centered Tributary Narrative: The Shenbao’s Reproduction of the Historical, Jizi-Related Official View of Korea,” Inmun yŏn’gu [Journal of Humanities] 102: 179–202 (2023)
“Nationalism, Commercialism, and the Remapping of Chinese Borders: The Dianshizhai Pictorial’s Coverage of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 62: 349–364 (2022)
“Munhwajŏk tanjŏl kwa chŏngch’ijŏk yŏndae: Tongnip sinmun ŭi Chungguk kwan chaegŏmt’o” [Cultural Severance and Political Alliance: A Reexamination of Tongnip sinmun’s View of China], Inmun kwahak yŏn’gu [Journal of Humanities] 47: 109–137 (2022) – Korean
“The Collapse of Self-Seduction and Colonial Mimicry: An Analysis of the Film M. Butterfly Compared to Its Earlier Versions,” Oeguk munhak yŏn’gu [Foreign Literature Studies] 88: 69–89 (2022)
“‘Keŭrŭgo nat’aehan’ Chosŏn ŭl kaejo hagi: Taehan Cheguk sigi munmyŏng kaehwa e taehan ilgoch’al” [Reforming “Lazy” Korea: A Study on the Civilization and Enlightenment in the Period of the Empire of the Great Han], Inmun yŏn’gu [Journal of Humanities] 99: 53–85 (2022) – Korean
“The Simultaneous Subversion and Reproduction of the Orientalist Fantasy: Focusing on Gallimard’s Death in the Film Version of M. Butterfly,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 60: 371–384 (2022)
“Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech,” Asian Studies Review 46.2: 215–233 (2022)
“‘Pyŏngdŭn Chungguk’ ŭl ch’iryo hagi: Ch’ŏngmal Chungguk esŏŭi sinch’e e taehan saeroun insik” [Curing the “Sick Man of Asia”: The Renewed View of the Body in Late Qing China], Inmun kwahak yŏn’gu [Journal of Humanities] 45: 105–132 (2022) – Korean
“Reconstructing Cultural and National Identities in the Contemporary Globalized World: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Chinese Tradition in The Wedding Banquet,” Tongsŏ inmunhak [Journal of East–West Humanities] 62: 193–221 (2022)
“Searching for the Butterfly: Orientalism in John Luther Long’s ‘Madame Butterfly’,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 57: 497–514 (2021)
“Gender, Nation, and Nationalism: Late Qing China’s Discourse on Women,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 55: 441–460 (2021)
“Revisiting the State–Society Relationship over Chinese History,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 52: 357–376 (2020)
“Under the Censor’s Gaze: The Dong-A Daily’s Presentation of Sun Yat-sen in the Early 1920s,” Journal of Asian History 53.1: 97–116 (2019)
“Rethinking Traditional and Western Values in Late Qing China: Focusing on Zhang Binglin’s View of the Manchus and the West,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 47: 393–414 (2019)
“The Translingual Practice of Meishu in Early Twentieth-Century China: Rethinking the Xieyi Tradition in Literati Painting,” Archiv Orientalni 85.1: 119–134 (2017)
“Conflicting Images of Korea: The Shenbao’s Changing Pan-Asian Envisioning,” Minjok munhwa nonch’ong [Journal of National Culture] 62: 457–480 (2016)
“Rethinking China-Centered Culturalism and the Tribute System from an East Asian Perspective,” Sǒgang inmun nonch’ong [Journal of Sǒgang Humanities] 45: 419–444 (2016)
“The Interplay of Chinese and Western Worldviews: Liang Qichao’s View of Japan and Korea in the 1900s,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 35: 309–328 (2016)
“Rethinking Chinese Nationalism in Transnational Contexts,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 33: 353–372 (2015)
“Between the Familiar and the Unfamiliar: Late Qing Chinese Visual Reconstruction of Foreign News,” Oeguk’ak yŏn’gu [Journal of Foreign Studies] 31: 313–337 (2015)
“The Jingbao as Late Qing China’s News Medium and Its Reports on Korean Affairs,” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 13.2: 235–249 (2013)
“Returning to the Past to Confront the Present: The Rediscovery of Mozi in Late Qing and Early Republican China,” Chungguk ŏmunhak nonjip [Journal of Chinese Language and Literature] 78: 507–521 (2013)
“Ch’ŏngmal Dianshizhai huabao ŭi yuga Chosŏn e taehan insik pyŏnhwa” [Changing Image of Confucian Korea in the Dianshizhai Pictorial], Myŏng–Ch’ŏng sa yŏn’gu [Journal of Ming–Qing History] 38: 379–400 (2012) – Korean
“Remaking a Tributary Relationship: The Representation of Chosŏn Korea in the Jingbao,” Journal of Asian History 45: 119–133 (2011)
