Professor Seungjoo Yoon
History Department
Carleton College
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057

Tel: 507-222-4211
Fax: 507-222-7900

Email: syoon@carleton.edu (or syoonster@gmail.com when I’m abroad)

POSITIONS HELD:
2006-present, Associate Professor of History, History Department, Carleton College
1999-2006 Assistant Professor of History, History Department, Carleton College
2003-2005 Director, East Asian Studies, Carleton College
1995-1999 Teaching Fellow, Harvard College, Sophomore Seminar, Moral Reasoning, Cultural Revolution, Tian’anmen Square, Historical Studies
1995-97 Member of Editorial Board, Papers in Chinese History, Fairbank Center, Harvard University
1995-99 Staff writer for Hangyore 21 (One Nation: Twenty-First Century)

EDUCATION:
Ph. D., HARVARD UNIVERSITY, (1999), in History. Field: Modern China and East Asian History.
General Examination Fields: China from 1750 to the Present, China from 700 to 1750, Russia from 1600 to the Present, International Relations from 1648 to the Present

A.M., HARVARD UNIVERSITY (1992), in Regional Studies-East Asia with Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize.

B.A., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea, (1989), cum laude in History

DISSERTATION:

“Constitutional Change in the Lower Echelon of the Qing Bureaucracy: The Formation, Reformation, and Transformation of Zhang Zhidong's Document Commissioners, 1888-1908.” Advisors: Professors Philip A. Kuhn and William C. Kirby

PUBLICATIONS:

Current Major Projects, “The Reference News and the origins of the New China News Agency, 1940-1955” (a journal article in preparation)

“Sovereign States in the Making: The East Asian Phase, 1630-1800,” (a journal article in preparation)

2005 Commissioners, Communication and Confucian Commitment: Zhang Zhidong and the Rise of Modern Press in China, 1880-1910 (600-page manuscript under review at Harvard’s Asia Center)

2003 “Zhang Zhidong and his Commissioners-In Search of an Interstitial Bureaucracy” Proceedings of the international conference commemorating the centennial of Zhang Zhidong’s Reforms, Wuhan, People's Republic of China (in Chinese) (Wuhan University Press)

2002 “Literati Journalists of the Chinese Progress (Shiwu bao) in Discord, 1896-98,” Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China edited by Rebecca Karl and Peter Zarrow, Harvard University.

1993 “The Green Gang Nexus in the Shanghai General Labor Union, 1920-27,” Papers in Chinese History, Vol. 2, Fairbank Center, Harvard University.

1992 “Hsieh Ts'an-T'ai's Abortive Uprising of 1903: A Case for the Rise of Non-Gentry Social Elite in Late Ch'ing Coastal China,” Papers on Chinese History, Vol. 1, No. 1., Fairbank Center, Harvard University.

1989 “Revisiting the Peaceful Resolution of the Xi'an Incident in 1936,” Seoul National University Papers on Asian History, No. 13 (in Korean)

PAPERS PRESENTED:

October, 2004, “Spying the Realm: The Correspondent Secretaries and the Origins of Modern Political Press in Late Imperial China, 1896-1906," the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

March, 2004, "The Sale of Official Posts in Late Imperial China-Bureaucracy with Chinese Characteristics or Its Demise?" the Faculty Colloquium, History Department, Carleton College

April, 2003, "The Sale of Official Posts in Late Imperial China-Bureaucracy with Chinese Characteristics or Its Demise?" Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

March, 2003, "Eat, Drink, and Talk Politics-Poetry and Politics at Literati Wine Gatherings," the national meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, New York, New York

October, 2003, “Archival Research on Zhang Zhidong,” History Department, Hebei University, Baoding, China

August, 2002, "Zhang Zhidong and his Commissioners-In Search of an Interstitial Bureaucracy" (in Chinese), the international conference in commemoration of Zhang Zhidong’s Reforms, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

August, 2002, “Studying Zhang Zhidong in the United States of America – The State of the Field” (in Chinese), the international conference in commemoration of Zhang Zhidong’s reforms, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

January, 2001, "Statecraft Thinking and Zhang Zhidong's Document Commissioners," Southwest Conference on Asian Affairs, San Antonio, Texas

October, 2000, "Zhang Zhidong and his Commissioners-In Search of an Interstitial Bureaucracy," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Discussant at a panel on the "Japanese Textbook Controversy" at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Lincoln, Nebraska

October, 1999, Discussant at a panel on "Neo-Nationalism in Japan" at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Indiana University. Indianapolis, Indiana

April, 1998, "Literati-Journalists of the Chinese Progress (Shiwu bao) in Discord, 1896-98," the national meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Washington, D.C.

ARCHIVAL AND FIELD RESEARCH:

January-April, 2007 Local archives in Rehe, Chengde, and Beijing (planned)

September-December, 2006 Local archives in Seoul & Daejon (planned)

November-December, 2005 Fudan University & Shanghai Municipal Archives, Shanghai, China

October, 2002-September, 2003 Libraries at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

October, 2003 Interview with the members of Hebei University History Department and a field trip to Li Hongzhang’s Headquarters in Baoding, China

August-October, 2002 Special Archives, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

June-August, 2002 Wuhan Municipal Archives, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

July, 2002 Field trip along the Yangtze River and the Three Gorges Dam

July-August, 2001 Tōyō Bunko & Keio University, Tokyo; Yokohama Historical Archives, Yokohama, Japan

June-July, 2001 Carleton faculty trip to Nara and Nagasaki, Japan

June- August, 2000 Royal Archives, Seoul, Republic of Korea

September, 1995 Field trip to Xi'an, People's Republic of China

June-October, 1995 The First National Archives, Forbidden City, Beijing

SCHOLARLY AFFILIATIONS:

American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Korea Association for Studies of Modern Chinese History (Han’guk hyŏndaesa yŏn’gu hoe)
Visiting scholar to Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (October, 2002-September, 2003)
Visiting scholar to the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, People's Republic of China (August-October, 2002)
Visiting scholar to the East China Normal University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China (June-August, 2002)
Visiting scholar to the First National Archives, Forbidden City, Beijing, People's Republic of China (May-October, 1995)

AWARDS & GRANTS:

2005 Laurence and Lucille Wu Family Endowed Fund for Faculty/Student Collaborative Study
2005 Dean’s Grant for Curricular Development, Carleton College
2002 Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Carleton College
2002 Class of 1949 Endowment for Faculty Development, Carleton College
2002 Rockefeller Brothers Grant, Starr Foundation, Faculty Course Development Support for Cross-Cultural Studies: Asia in Comparative Perspective, Carleton College
1998 History Department Conference Attendance Grant, Harvard University
1995 History Department Summer Research Grant, Harvard University
1992 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize for excellence in writing the A.M. thesis, Committee on Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
Classical Chinese & Mandarin: fluent. Japanese: near native reading knowledge of scholarly works and fair communication skills. Korean: native. Russian: reading knowledge.

COURSES TAUGHT & TEACHING (at Carleton):
Modern China
Imperial China
The Chinese Revolution of 1949 (Freshman Seminar)
Modern Japan
Ancient and Medieval Japan
Modern Korea
Foreign Relations in East Asia in Modern Times (crossed-listed in Political Science/ International Relations)
Bureaucracy, Law, and Religion in East Asia
Colonialism in East Asia (crossed-listed in Political Science)
Topics in East Asian History (Research Seminar)
Making Revolutions in East Asian History (Research Seminar)
Man and Water in the East China Seas (Research Seminar, crossed-listed as the Cross-Cultural Studies graduating
seminar)
Independent Studies: Inner Asian Frontiers; Colonial Manchuria; Marriage Customs and Legal Reforms in China; Christianity in China; Archaeology, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Japan; Samurai in Early Medieval Japan; Historiography of Korean War

COLLEGE SERVICE (at Carleton unless noted otherwise):
Honorary Degree Committee
Library Committee
Committee on Asian Studies
Search Committees
Faculty Adviser to the F.I.S.H. House, a shared interest living community of Christian students, (2005 – present) Faculty Advisor to Carleton’s Go Association, a semi-formal community of Carleton students (2001-present)
Panelist, “The Sojourner Mentality and International Students,” Carleton Campus-Wide Faculty Retreat (September, 2005).
Speaker, “My experience at a liberal arts college as an international faculty member,” Visiting Scholars Program at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts (November, 2003)
Guest Speaker, “Doing an archival research in a contemporary setting,” a lecture given in Chinese to Carleton students, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (October, 2002)
Speaker, “Teaching East Asian History to High School Students,” at the AP World History Seminar (June 2002)
Panelist, “Historical Studies – Then and Now: The Case of East Asian Historiography in the West,” Carleton Campus-Wide Faculty Retreat (September, 2001).