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This seminar serves as an orientation to the history of ¿premodern¿ Korea through an examination of its historiography. It interrogates how scholars have situated their research questions within existing historiography and the *problématiques* that emerge from this engagement. Students will therefore read earlier, field-defining scholarship alongside more recent, emerging scholarship as a way to understand the development of premodern Korean history as a field. In particular, the course will critically examine the ¿premodern¿/¿modern¿ distinction and evaluate how questions in search of ¿modernity¿ and narratives of ¿modernization¿ have driven research and debates, whether explicitly or implicitly, on the ¿premodern¿ past. Topics to be covered include identity and nationalism, political and social history, gender and law, foreign relations and diplomacy, and economic and social ¿modernization.¿nnAll required readings in English. Ability to read Korean or another Asian language welcome but not required.