Japan and Korea Section, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture

Senior Lecturer in Korean

Centre of Korean Studies

Chair, Centre of Korean Studies

Name:

Dr Anders Karlsson

Email address:

ak49@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

020 7898 4265

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

388

Academic Support Hours:

Mondays 1-3pm /Thursdays 9-11am

Biography

History; Language

Programmes Convened

• BA Korean (2019)
• BA Korean (2020)
• BA Korean Studies (2018)
• BA Korean Studies (2019)
• BA Korean Studies (2020)
• BA Korean Studies and... Combined Honours Degree (2018)
• BA Korean Studies and... Combined Honours Degree (2019)
• BA Korean Studies and... Combined Honours Degree (2020)
• BA Korean and... (Combined Honours Degree) (2019)
• BA Korean and... (Combined Honours Degree) (2020)
• MA ... and Intensive Language (Korean) (2018)
• MA ... and Intensive Language (Korean) (2019)
• MA ... and Intensive Language (Korean) (2020)

Modules Taught

• Advanced Korean Readings (PG)
• Directed readings in Korean Studies A
• Directed readings in Korean Studies B
• Dissertation in Korea Studies
• History of Korea to the late 19th Century
• History of Korea to the late 19th Century (PG)
• Introduction to Mixed Script Korean (PG)
• K304: Introduction to Mixed Script Korean
• K401: Advanced Korean Readings
• Modern Korea: Culture and Society
• State and Society in Traditional Korea
• State and Society in Traditional Korea (PG)

PhD Students supervised

• Sangwon Shin,
• Shan Siping, Environment, Commerce and Imperial Politics in South-Eastern Mongolia (1644–1912)
• Wonmook Kang, The Qing Perspective of ‘Europeans’, 1644-1858

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Available for

• Press
• Briefings
• Special Study Programmes
• Short Term Consultancy
• Long Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

• East Asia

Country Expertise

• Korea South

Languages

• Korean
• Swedish

Authored Books

Karlsson, Anders (2000) The Hong Kong Kyôngnae rebellion 1811-1812: Conflict Between Central Power and Local Society in 19th-Century Korea. Stockholm: Stockholm University.

Articles

Karlsson, Anders (2019) 'Sven Hedin's visit to Korea in 1908: Knowledge, Power and Propaganda'. Orientaliska Studier, (159), pp 86-105.

Karlsson, Anders (2014) '"Must we really cut people's toes off to uphold the law?" Confucian Statecraft, Punishment and the Body in Choson Korea'. Tasanhak, (24), pp 107-147.

Karlsson, Anders (2007) 'Famine Relief, Social Order, and State Performance in Late Choson Korea'. The Journal of Korean Studies, (12) 1, pp 113-41.

Karlsson, Anders (2007) 'Royal Compassion and Disaster Relief in Chosôn Korea'. Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, (20) 1, pp 71-98.

Karlsson, Anders (2006) 'Central Power, Local Society, and Rural Unrest in Nineteenth-Century Korea: An Attempt at Comparative Local History'. Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, (6) 2, pp 207-38.

Karlsson, Anders (2005) 'Famine, Finance and Political Power: Crop Failure and Land-Tax Exemptions in Late Eighteenth-Century Choson Korea'. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, (48) 4, pp 552-592.

Karlsson, Anders (2004) 'fSûweden t’amhômga sûwen hedin ûi han’guk hwangje alhyôn kwa t’onggambu sônjôn saôp [Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin's Audience with the Emperor of Korea and Residency-General Propaganda]'. Journal of Korean Culture, (vol. 5), pp 5.

Karlsson, Anders (2004) 'Kukchôk ômnûn munhak, kukkyông ômnûn toksô: Han’guk munhak haeoe sogae e taehan myôt kaji saenggak [Literature without nationality, reading without borders: Some thoughts on introducing Korean literature abroad]'. Taesan Munhwa, (vol. 1), pp 105-107.

Karlsson, Anders (2000) 'The Nobel Peace Prize: Nationalism and Big Business'. Harvard Asia Quarterly, (IV, No).

Karlsson, Anders (1997) 'Därmed råder ingen tvekan om att dödsorsaken var sjukdom'' - Rättsmedicin och likbesiktning i 1800-talets Korea'' (''There is thus no doubt that the cause of death was disease'' - Forensic Medicine and Autopsy in 19th Century Korea'. Orientaliska Studier, (92), pp 3-11.

Karlsson, Anders (1996) 'Minjung: Folket, historieforskning och frågan om Koreas modernisering (Minjung: The People, Historical Research and the Question of the Modernization of Korea)'. Orientaliska Studier, (88), pp 48-57.

Karlsson, Anders (1996) 'Theory and Practice: Discrepancies in Supply and Demand in Korean Language Education in Sweden'. Korean Language Education, (7), pp 269-274.

Book Chapters

Karlsson, Anders (2015) 'Confucian Ideology and Legal Developments in Chosŏn Korea: A Methodological Essay'. Brill's Asian Law Series. Leiden: Brill, pp 83-103.

Karlsson, Anders (2014) 'Northern Territories and the Historical Understanding of Territory in Late Choson'. In: Jackson, Andrew David, (ed.), Key Papers on Korea: Essays Celebrating 25 Years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London. Leiden: Brill, pp 61-77.

Karlsson, Anders (2014) 'Ch’ǒn’gǔm ǔi cha nǔn chǒja esǒ ch’ǒhyǒng toeji annǔnda: 17, 18 segi Chosǒn ǔi sahyǒng kwa hyosu ("Scions of Wealthy Families do not Die in the Marketplace": Death Penalty and Hyosu Punishment in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Chosǒn Korea)'. In: Tomiya, Itaru, (ed.), Tongasia ǔi sahyǒng. Kyǒngsan: Yǒngnam taehakkyo ch'ulp'anbu, pp 152-193.

Karlsson, Anders (2001) 'Chônggamnok and the ideology of the Hong Kyôngnae rebellion'. In: Pak, Y and Yeon, J, (eds.), History, Language and Culture in Korea: Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE). London: Saffron Books (Eastern Art Publishing UK).

Conference Items

Karlsson, Anders (2004) 'Annual AAS Conference - 'Destitution, Famine and Class in Late Chosôn Korea''.

Karlsson, Anders (2002) 'Embracing the other: The interaction of Korean and foreign cultures - A Hermit Nation not for Everyone: First-Hand Contacts with Qing and Their Consequences in Late Choson P'yongan Province'.

Other

Karlsson, Anders (2002) 'Yangban'.

Karlsson, Anders (2002) 'Nobi'.

Karlsson, Anders (2002) 'Ch'oe Nam-son'.

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