Dr. Nam-Lin Hur
Professor
Courses Taught
ASIA 200 Cultural Foundations of East Asia
ASIA 314 Premodern Japan
ASIA 315 Early Modern Japan
ASIA 410 International Relations in Premodern East Asia
ASIA 430 International Relations in Modern East Asia
ASIA 521 Research Methods and Source Materials in Japanese Studies
ASIA 525 Topics in the Social History of Premodern Japan
ASIA 587 The Chosǒn Society
Professor Nam-lin Hur teaches premodern Japanese history and Korean-Japanese relations in the Department of Asian Studies and conducts research on foreign relations, religion, and society in premodern Korea and Japan. His current monograph projects involve “Japan’s Invasion of Korea in Premodern East Asia, 1592-98” and “Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan.”
Background
Ph.D. (Princeton) East Asian Religions
M.A. (Seoul National Univ.) Religious Studies
B.A. (Seoul National Univ.) Religious Studies
Monographs
Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.
Buddhism and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
Book Chapters
“History and the Myth of Imperial Authority: Buddhism and Anti-Christianity in Early Modern Japan.” In Sinhwa wa yŏksa, ed. Kim Chongsuh, et al. Seoul: Sŏul taehakkyo ch’ulp’anbu, 2003, pp. 573-98.
“Chonggyohak esŏ pon ch’ŏnhwangje.” In Chŏnhwang kwa Ilbon munhwa, ed. Asia munhwa yŏn’guso. Ch’unchŏn: Hallym taehakkyo ch’upp’anbu, 2004, pp. 357-89.
“Sorei, ie, soshite kindai no ‘kazoku kokka’.” In Nihonjin no shūkyō to shomin shinkō, ed. Tamamuro Fumio. Tokyo: Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 2006, pp. 458-76.
“King Sŏnjo and Confucian Politics in 1591.” In Yugyo wa chonggyohak, ed. Sŏul taehakkyo chonggyo munje yŏn’guso. Seoul: Sŏul taehakkyo ch’ulp’anbu, 2009, pp.355-78.
Articles
“Buddhist Culture of Asakusa Kannon in Edo.” Asia Journal 2-1 (June 1995), pp. 15-28.
“Collective Memory, Historians, and the Construction of the National Identity of Koreans through the Japanese.” The Review of Korean Studies 1-1 (September 1998), pp. 5-25.
“The Sōtō Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26/1-2 (Spring 1999), pp. 107-134.
“A Korean Envoy Encounters Tokugawa Japan: Shin Yuhan and the Korean Embassy of 1719.” Civilization 21, no. 4 (March 2000), Aichi University, Japan, pp. 61-73.
“Kido wa changsik: Ilbon Bulgyo munhwa ŭi tu chungsimch’uk.” Ilbon sasang (Journal of Japanese Intellectual History), no. 2 (Fall 2000), Seoul, Korea, pp. 91-113.
“Ilbon kŭnse ch’ogi e issŏsŏŭi pan-Kidokkyo chŏngch’aek kwa sach’ŏng chedo ŭi sŏngnip.” Ilbon yŏksa yŏn’gu (The Journal of Japanese History), no. 11 (Winter 2000), Seoul, Korea, pp. 1-21.
“Anti-Christianity and Funerary Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan.” Chonggyo wa munhwa (Religion and Culture), vol. 11 (Fall 2005), Seoul, Korea, pp. 175-222.
“Ilbon e issŏsŏ Pulgyo wa Pulgyohak ŭi kŭdaehwa: Pan-Kidokkyojuŭi, kajok-kukka, kŭrigo Pulgyo ŭi munhwa chŏch’ihak.” Chonggyo munhwa pip’yŏng (The Critical Review of Religion and Culture), vol. 8 (Fall 2005), Seoul, Korea, pp. 47-79.
“Chonggyo wa chŏnjaeng: Toyotomi Hideyoshi ŭi Chosŏn ch’imnyak.” Ilbonhak yŏn’gu (Journal of Japanese Studies), no. 18 (April 2006), Dankook University, Korea, pp. 345-364.
“Cheju ŭi yŏksajŏk t’op’osŭ: p’erip’ori kŭrigo p’ŭront’iŏ.” Tamla munhwa (The Culture of Tamla), vol. 31 (August 2007), Cheju National University, Korea, pp. 5-39.
“Chosŏn Korean Officials in the Land of Tokugawa Japan: Ethnic Perceptions in the 1719 Korean Embassy.” Korea Observer
Email: namlin(at)mail.ubc.ca