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Ancient Chinese History
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A., Korea University; M.A., University of Pittsburgh
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Advisor: Anthony Barbieri-Low
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I am interested in food resources and dietary condition according to the social classes and ideologies in ancient East Asia (China, Korea and Japan). My dissertation will examine the accordance and discordance among ideologies, policies, and reality by analyzing the food redistribution system and regulations during the Qin and Han periods, when China began to create an imperial state. This dissertation will attempt to answer several questions: How were food resources redistributed to officials, armies, and peasants as well as convicts after being collected as tax or tribute? What kinds of ideology and purpose were reflected in the food redistribution system and regulations? Why did disconnects emerge between the ideal of food production and distribution and to the implementation of the policy, and the reality in the process of food redistribution? What alternative method(s)—other than a philosophical approach—can be used to understand the food redistribution system?
Dissertation Title- Food Redistribution during China’s Qin and Han Periods: Accordance and discordance among ideologies, policies, and implementation
Teaching Assistantships- Hist 80 (Winter 2010 / Summer 2010)
East Asian Civilization
- Hist 87 (Fall 2009/ Fall 2010)
Japanese History through Art and Literature
Publications- "Food Preparation and Feasting from Images, Grave Goods and Texts- Absence of Classical Learning and Philosophy?"
Published in the Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, held January 9-12, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- "Food from the Tomb"
Dig, November/December 2009, vol.11, no.9, 14-17.
- Dietary Conditions and Differential Access to Food Resources Among the Aarious Classes during the Han Period
MA Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2004
Presentations & Exhibitions- "Food Preparation and Feasting in Tombs and Shrines of Han China (202 BC - 220 AD): Ideology, Visual Representation, and Reality"
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January, 2011
- "Fine Dining in the Afterlife"
Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, China (3rd Century BCE - 1st Century CE), Santa Barbara Fine Art Museum, September 19 - December 13, 2009
- “The Role of Relief Houses during the Tokugawa Period in Japan”
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January, 2009
- “The Role of Food Resources in the Qin and Han Laws”
Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 2008
Fellowships and Awards- Department Dissertation Fellowship
University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2011
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008-09
- Harold and Hester Schoen Endowed Fellowship
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007-08
- Arts & Sciences Fellowship
University of Pittsburgh, 2006-07
- First Class Honors
Korea University, 2000
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