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Category: Literary

Please join us for an intimate round-table discussion with Dr. Wayne Patterson on his new book, In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888. According to Dr. Patterson, “when discussing Korea's "Chinese Decade," defined as the dozen years prior to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, most of the attention is focused on the heavy-handed activities of Yuan Shikai in Seoul. Less well known is that part of this Chinese effort to bind Korea more closely to China involved the absorption of Korea's newly-formed Maritime Customs Service. Using the recently-discovered correspondence of the first commissioner of customs in Pusan, this book uncovers some heretofore unknown aspects of this attempted takeover by China.” 

Admission complimentary. Seating is very limited.

Monday, March 12, 2012

6:15PM Registration
6:30PM Discussion

Book Cafe: In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888

with

Dr. Wayne Patterson
Professor of East Asian History, St. Norbert College

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper
Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

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About the Speaker Wayne Patterson received his undergraduate degree in history from Swarthmore College and his graduate degrees in history and international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught Korean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of South Carolina, the University of Kansas, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Philippines (as Korea Foundation Visiting Professor), Ewha University, Korea University, Yonsei University (as Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer) and, most recently, at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910 (1994) and The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 (2000), both published by the University of Hawaii Press. He is currently Professor of (East Asian) History at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.

 

 

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