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| Documenting the History of Korean Christianity in Missionary Archives & Photographs |
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About the Speaker  Donald N. Clark teaches courses on China, Japan, Korea, and the history of American foreign relations. He also serves as director of Trinity's International Studies Program. The son of missionaries, a Peace Corps volunteer, a Social Science Research Council fellow, and a Fulbright scholar, his research focuses on Korea, where he has spent much of his life.Clark earned his B.A. from Whitworth College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A short version of his doctoral dissertation is featured in the Cambridge History of China. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Korea, and Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience, 1900-1950, the co-author of two books on the history of Seoul, and the editor of several volumes on Korea including one on the 1980 democracy uprising in Kwangju.
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Join us for an in-depth discussion of the value of missionary archives in the study of modern Korea. Touching on major issues in Korea's encounter with the West, Donald N. Clark, professor of history at Trinity University will discuss how missionaries' personal testimonies and photographs help us understand how Christianity became a defining force in contemporary Korea, how Koreans and Westerners formed intercultural relationships and how Korean women played a unique role in building Christian communities.
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