Jeongsoo Shin
신정수(申正秀)

Jeongsoo Shin is Associate Professor of Korean Cultural Studies at the Academy of Korean Studies. He is currently preparing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Nineteenth-century Sino-Korean Antiquarianism and its Legacy in Colonial Korea,” dealing with appropriations of calligraphic works in East Asia. One of his articles on this topic is “Kim Chŏnghŭi and His Epigraphic Studies: Two Silla Steles and Their Rubbings” (2022). His other publications cover diverse topics: “A Study of late Ming literati artist Ni Yuanlu (1594-1644) and his Stone Paintings” (明末文人畫家倪元璐的石交圖研究) (2024), “The Making of King Peony in Korean Literature: a Reading of ‘Admonition for the Flower King’” (2012), “Celebrated Helper and Disappeared Hero: The Orphan of Zhao and Voltairean Adaptation” (2012), and “From Paradise to Garden: the Construction of Penglai and Xuanpu” (2011).

In addition to his research pursuits, he considers scholarly translation an integral part of his work. “The Tale of Lady Park” and “A Tale of Two Sisters” appear in Pre-modern Korean Literary Prose (Columbia University Press, 2017). Moreover, in collaboration with his graduate students, he published the first seven chapters of the biographical section of the Samguk sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms), compiled by Kim Pusik (1075-1151), in the Review of Korean Studies (2018 to 2020). He plans to translate the remaining three chapters and eventually publish the complete work as a single book.