Introduction to the Paintings of Chosŏn Korea in One Day
Masato Hasegawa 長谷川正人
國立台灣大學歷史系
Masato Hasegawa is Assistant Professor of History at National Taiwan University. He studied History at Yale University and previously taught at the University of Oregon, Columbia University, and New York University. From 2016 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He specializes in the history of technology and the environment in Ming-Qing China and Chosŏn Korea, and his current research focuses on the intersections of bureaucratic knowledge, war mobilization, and ecology in the Sino-Korean borderland of the 16th and 17th centuries.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Early Modern China, Early Modern Korea, History of Science and Technology, Borderlands and Military History, Environmental History, Law and Society
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Sept. 2019-Present National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Assistant Professor, Department of History
Sept. 2016-Jun. 2019 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department III
Sept. 2014-May 2016 New York University, New York, NY, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History
Sept. 2014-May 2016 Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Jan. 2013-Jun. 2013 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Adjunct Instructor, Department of History
EDUCATION
May 2013 Ph.D. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
History (M.Phil. & M.A. in History awarded in December 2008)
May 2001 M.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
International Relations
March 19 B.A. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Political Science
LANGUAGES
Japanese (Native); English (Fluent); Chinese (Fluent); Korean (Fluent); French (Advanced); Manchu (Reading); German (Advanced)
PUBLICATIONS
• “War, Commerce, and Tributary Relations in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Late Sixteenth Century.” In The Ming World, edited by Kenneth M. Swope, 481-99. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019.
• “Measuring Reliability in the Wartime Transport of Provisions: The Case of Mao Yuanyi (1594- 1641).” Ming Studies 80 (2019): 2-30.
• “War, Supply Lines, and Society in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Late Sixteenth Century.” Late Imperial China 37, no. 1 (2016): 109-52.
BOOK REVIEWS
• ReviewofWarFinanceandLogisticsinLateImperialChina:AStudyoftheSecondJinchuanCampaign (1771–1776), by Ulrich Theobald (Brill, 2013). Monumenta Serica 68, no. 1 (2020): 272-75.
• Review of The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China, by Michael Szonyi (Princeton Univ. Press, 2017). China Review International 24, no. 3 (2019): 232-36.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
• Militarizing Crops: War, Logistics, and Society in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Late Sixteenth Century. Monograph manuscript in preparation.
• “Politics of Topographical Imaginations in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” Article in preparation.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS
• “MilitaryLogisticsandCommercialNetworksintheSino-KoreanBorderlandduringtheImjinWar (1592-1598).” Invited paper at workshop, “Research on the Imjin War,” organized by Shandong University. April 20-21, 2019.
• “TheEmperor’sSkaters:IceandManchuIdentityundertheQingDynasty.”Paperpresentedat2018 Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. August 27-30, 2018.
• “Politics of Topographical Imaginations in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Paper presented at SOAS University of London. London, UK. June 5, 2018.
• “Transport, Animals and Human Labour in Late Imperial China.” Presentation for conference, “Chinese Science, Technology and Medicine: Cultures, Histories and Global Connections,” organized by the Science Museum, London, UK. June 3-4, 2018.
• “The Politics of Farming Knowledge in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Late Sixteenth-Century.” Paper for panel, “Seeds of the Frontier: Botanical Interventions and State Expansion in East Asia, 1400-1945,” at the 2018 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Washington, DC. March 22-25, 2018.
• “Vistas from the East: Locating China’s North in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Ming-Qing Period.” Presentation for conference, “Re-thinking China’s North,” organized by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. December 4-6, 2017.
• “Border Crossings and Crime in the Sino-Korean Borderland of the Eighteenth Century.” Paper presented at workshop, “Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians.” University of Gö ttingen, Germany. September 19-22, 2017.
• “Languages of Nature and Identity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Korea.” Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference. Szé kesfehé rvá r, Hungary. August 27-September 1, 2017.
• “PlagueEpidemicsandChosŏnSocietyintheEarlyEighteenthCenturyasSeenthroughanAnalysis of the Records of the Central Military Garrison.” Paper presented at the “International Conference on the Records of the Central Military Garrison (Gunyeongdeungnok) from Joseon Korea,” organized by the Academy of Korean Studies. Seongnam, Korea. September 29-30, 2016.