I studied at Korea University in Seoul for master’s and PhD degree in Korean history. My master’s thesis, drawing on setions on local produce in the geographical records of the Annals of King Sejoing, examines regional features of the tributary taxation in the early Joseon period. My PhD dissertation explores the operational features of the tribute system in conjunction with the changing aspects of the Gongan(貢案), the fiscal ledger of the state during the early Joseon period. 

After receiving doctoral degree, I served as a research fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University (2017) and at the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (2018-2019). Then I was elected as a scholarship recipient of the Sinjiphyeonjeon Taekaksa programme at the Academy of Korean Studies to carry out research for three years. In 2022, I joined the Department of History at Hanyang University.

My research pays attention to the characteristics of early Joseon state finance, particularly through the lens of the in-kind tribute system known as gongnap. I also have a broad interest in various governance institutions, including fiscal administration, the civil service examination system, the bureaucracy, and state rituals. Recently, I launched a new initiative to reclassify taxation categories in the Joseon dynasty, departing from existing scholarship. Based on it, I aim to provide a macro-level perspective on fiscal management in early Joseon. 

I welcome research student of Joseon dynasty, particularly interested in state, finance, econom, and governance institutions of early Joseon before the Imjin War.
 

● Personal Profile

Professor Jin-A Kang has been teaching Modern and Contemporary Chinese History and Economic History of Modern Asia in our undergraduate and graduate programmes since 2012. She received her B.A. (1993) and M.A. (1996) from the Department of Oriental History, Seoul National University. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2001, she held positions at Central Normal University, Wuhan (2001-2002), Sungkyunguan University, Seoul (2002-2004), and Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea (2004-2012). Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese history, overseas Chinese studies and comparative economic history of modern Asia.

● Research Projects

Research Grant of NRF(National Research Foundation of Korea)
   - “The transformation of the Chinese finance during the long twentieth century and global opportunity”(5 years, September 2022-August 2027)
   - “Industrial capitalization of Western Company in Modern East Asia and Cantonese Merchants’ response: the case study of B&S Co. and Taikoo sugar.”(3 years, July 2017 – June 2020)
   - “The development of Coastal economies in modern China and Cantonese merchants.”(3 years, May 2014-April 2017)
   - “The circulation and changes of Cantonese capital in Asia during 20th century.”(2 years, May 2012-April 2014)

Research Grant of KRF(Korea Research Foundation, former body of NRF）
   - “Overseas Chinese Capital and Modern Korea,”(3 years, August 2006 – July 2009)

● Honors: Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

   - Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar 2018/2019 (September 2018-June 2019)
   - LG Yeonam Foundation Grant for Visiting Professor, 2010 full year, research fellowship at University of California, Irvine, department of history (invited by Prof. Kenneth Pomeranz)
   - Selected in Best Academic Books of 2006 and 2012, National Academy of Science in Korea (respectively for the list of Book 3 and Book 1)
   - Selected in Best Cultural Books of 2010, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
(for the list of Translation 4)

● Research Output

* Book (monography) 

1.    Jin-A, Kang. The Guangdong Model and Taxation in China: Formation, Development, and Characteristics of China's Modern Financial System, Amsterdam University Press, 2022.10.
2.    姜抮亚，『东亚华侨资本和近代朝鲜：广帮巨商同顺泰号研究 』广东人民出版社，广州：中 国，2018年11月.
3.    Kang Jin-A. History of Modern East Asian Economy rewritten by Migration and Commodity Circulation: The Story of Tan Jie-sheng and the Tongshuntai Firm, Seoul: The Asiatic Research Institute at Korea University, 2018.
4.    Kang Jin-A, Tongshuntai- - Chinese merchant network in East Asia and modern Korea, Deagu: Kyungpook National University Press, 2011.
5.    Kang Jin-A, From Civilization Empire to Nation State, Seoul: Changbi press, 2009.
6.    Kang Jin-A. Center, Local and Merchants in the 1930s China, Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2005.

<Book Chapters>

* Books in Chinese (co-authored)

1.    “Circulation of Chaozhou sugar-related products in Korean market seen through Tongshuntai documents,” in Structure and diffusion of Local Culture: the 8th Chaozhou Studies International Conference Collected Papers, Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 2012.
2.    “The Swatow Incident of 1935: Guangdong’s local taxes and Japan in the 1930s”, in China in the 1930s. 2 vols. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2006. 
3.    “East Asian Market and Chinese Sugar Industry in the early 20th century,” in Modern China – Economy and Society. Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2006. 
4.    “Currency Unification Policy of Guangdong Provincial Government and its failure: foreign exchange crisis and Small Money,” in Chinese Economy during the Republican era under the world system. Beijing: Zhongguo caizheng jingji chubanshe, 2005.

* Books in Japanese (co-authored)

“The Chinese Diaspora in Korea and the Kuomintang: Forgotten History Told Through the Story of the Tongshuntai firm,” in The World of East Asia and the Creation of the Republic: Proceedings of the International Academic Symposium Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, Kyūko Shoin, 2023. 

* Books in English (co-authored)

“Monetary war between Nanjing and Guangzhou during the great depression: Financial unification and national versus local politics in China in the 1930s,” in Chi-cheung Choi, Tomoko Shiroyama and Venus Viana ed., Strenuous Decades: Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022.

* Books in Korean (co-authored)

1.     "Center and Local in Chinese economic development in the 1930s: launching of Guangdong sugar in Shanghai and Nanjing government." in Reconsideration of History of Modern China, vol. 1. Paek Yŏngsŏ et al eds. Seoul: Chisik sanyŏpsa, 1999 
2.     "Reforms and opening of China: Historicity of Chinese modernization." in China’s reform: Socio-politics of Opening, 1980-2000. Chŏng Chaeho, et al eds. Seoul: K’ach’i, 2002. 
3.     "Growing Trade Friction between China and Japan and Changes in Sino-Korean relationship." in Korea within East Asia during modern transition. Jin Jae-gyo et al eds. Seoul: Sungkyunkwan University Press, 2004. 
4.     “East Asian Market and Chinese Sugar Industry in the early 20th century.”in Dissolution of Imperialist Order in search for New Order, Seoul: Ch'ŏngŏram Media, 2004
5.     "Dialogue: Humanities perspectives of Chinese civil society and East Asia." in Korea Speaking Asian Civil Societies. Cho Hyoje and Pak Eŭnhong eds., Seoul: Arke, 2005.
6.     "World Historical changes of East Asian trade network in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries: Consideration of Catch-up Development Model." in Regional Order in East Asia. Seoul: Ch’angbi, 2005. 
7.     "Chinese merchant's recognition of the others in modern Korea - Tongshuntai's case-." in East Asian Identities and its diversity from the perspective of history, Tongbugayŏksajaedan, 2010.
8.      “Tribute System and China-Korea Relations: Why Did Owen N. Denny Author China and Korea?” in CHINA, New paradigm: Ask way to 18 Scholars, Hanul Academy, 2015
9.     “China and Japan in the 1950s,” in History of Korean Life and Culture in the 1950s: Picking up fliers and Going to dance hall, Changbi, 2016
10.     “China and Japan in the 1960s,” in History of Korean Life and Culture in the 1960s: Modernization and Militarization, Changbi, 2016
11.     “China and Japan in the 1970s,” in History of Korean Life and Culture in the 1950s: The Saemaul Undong Movement and the miniskirt, Changbi, 2016
12.     “China and Japan in the 1980s,” in History of Korean Life and Culture in the 1950s: Republic of Sports and Fried Chicken in Sweet and Chili Sauce, Changbi, 2016 

* BOOK (TRANSLATION)

1.    Richard Curt Kraus, Kang Jin-A trans. The Cultural Revolution, Seoul: Kyoyu Shoga, 2024.
Richard Curt Kraus, The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2012.
2.    Ishikawa Yoshihiro. Kang Jin-A trans. The Chinese Communist Party, its History of 100 years, , Seoul: Tobe Books, 2024.
石川禎浩『中国共産党、その百年』筑摩書房・筑摩選書 2021.
3.    Okamoto Takashi. Kang Jin-A trans. How to read Chinese History?, Seoul: Tobe Books, 2023. 
岡本隆司 『教養としての「中国史」の読み方』PHP、2020.
4.    Kubo Toru. Kang Jin-A trans. Chinese Modern History 4: The Challenge for Socialism 1945-1971, Seoul: Samcheonli Press, 2013.
久保亨『中国近現代史４：社会主義への挑戦, 1945-1971』岩波書店, 2011.
5.    Mitani Hiroshi. Kang Jin-A trans. New East Asian Modern History. Seoul: Kachi Press, 2011. 
三谷博　外 『大人のための東アジア近代史』東京大学出版会, 2009.
6.    Giovanni Arrighi. Kang Jin-A trans. Adam Smith in Beijing, Seoul: Gil Press, 2009.
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing-Lineages of the Twenty-Firist Century, Verso, 2008.
7.    Okamoto Takashi. Kang Jin-A trans. Unfinished Planning –Independence of Korea, Seoul: Sowadang Press, 2009.
岡本隆司『世界のなかの日清韓関係史―交隣と属国、自主と独立 』講談社, 2008.
8.    Philip Richardson. Kang Jin-A and Ku Pum-jin trans. Modern Chinese Economy 1800-1950. Seoul: P’urŭn Yŏksa, 2007. 
Philip Richardson, Economic Change in China c. 1800-1950, Cambridge university press, 1999.
9.    Tanaka Akira. Kang Jin-A trans. Small Japanism. Seoul: Sohwa, 2002. 田中彰, 『小国主義ー日本の近代を読み直す』岩波新書, 1999. 

<Journal Articles>

*Articles in Japanese

1. “State and reforms of tax farming system of China in the 1930s.” Rekishigaku Genkyu771 (Tokyo: January 2003) 
2.  “Building of Sugar industry in the Chen Ji-tang government of Guangdong province in the 1930s,” Chigakini Arite30 (Tokyo: November, 1996)

*Articles in English

1.“Chinese Lottery Business and Korea, 1898–1909: The Cantonese Company Tongshuntai, and East Asian Trade Networks”, Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives Vol. 11,Issue 1, pp. 60-92(Brill, Chicago, 2017) 
2. "Nationalism Across Frontiers: The Narratives and Economic Activities of Tongshuntai, an Overseas Chinese Company in Korea during the First Sino-Japanese War", Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives Vol. 10,Issue 1, pp. 60-92(Brill, Chicago, 2016) 
3. "The Enforcement of Immigration Control in Colonial Korea and the Rise of Nationalism in the Chinese Media ", Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives Vol. 9,Issue 1, pp. 142-169(Brill, Chicago, 2015) 
4. “Cantonese Networks in East Asia and the Chinese Firm Tongshuntai in Korea", Asian Research Trends New SeriesNo.12,, pp. 142-169(Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, April 2018) 2017? 
5. "Chinese Merchants in Japan and Korea." In the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Commercial History. Ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press, Jan. 2022. 

*Articles in Korean

1. “The Challenge from the Era of Being Undeclared: On the Ground of Undergraduate Major Education in History,” Yŏksahakpo264(2024) 
2.“Cantonese Merchants’ Trade Network in Korea Seen from the Correspondences of the Dexing Firm in Incheon,” Yŏksa pip’yŏng149(2024) 
3.“China's Return: The Agony of East Asian Discourse in the Shadow of a 'New Cold War',”Kiŏkkwa chŏnmang149(2024) 
4.“Two Wheels, Transnationality and Nationality: Korean Studies on Contemporary Chinese History Amidst the Pandemic, 2020~2021” Yŏksahakpo255(2022). 
5. “A Reconsideration of Asian Sugar Market and Intra-Asian Trade Theory in the First Half of the 20th Century: Focusing on Sales Analysis of Taikoo Sugar Refinery,”Yŏksahakpo253 (2022)
6.“The Establishment of the KMT Keijo branch and the role of the Cantonese community in Seoul during Colonial Korea,”Tongashiamunhwayŏn'gu 88(2022) 
7.“Wanpaoshan Incident and the 1931 anti-Chinese riots of Korea reconstructed from British Foreign Office Records”Tongyang sahak yŏngu 156(2021) 
8.“Politics of Taikoo Sugar Refinery Co. in Hong Kong against Chinese Sugar monopoly during the 1930s – Survival under the Great Depression –.” ," Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu85 (2020)
9.“Sugar Market in the Modern East Asia and Hong Kong Sugar Industry.”Yŏksa pip’yŏng130 (2020) 
10.“Transition of Modern Chinese Tax Structure from the View of Global History.” Tongyang sahak yŏngu 75 (July 2001) 
11. “The Tax on Wines and Tobacco in Guangdong province and finance modernization during the Republic period,”” Tongyang sahak yŏngu 138(2018) 
12.“Modern Maritime Asia and the formation of transnational merchant diaspora: From “yanghang” to “Western Overseas,” Yŏksahakpo232 (2016) 
13.“The Opening-up of East Asia: From the Treaty of Nanjing to the Treaty of Ganghwa,” Hyentaysa kwangcang7(2016)
14.“Modern transformation of Imperial Finance: the case of Guangdong Provincial finance in the late Qing period," Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu69 (2016) 
15.“Economic activities of Chinese merchant Tongshuntai during the 1st Sino-Japanese War: Nationalism and highway to Fortune,” Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu64 (2014)
16.“The 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) as perceived by Cantonese Firm Tongshuntaiin Korea,” Yŏksahakpo224 (2014) 
17.“The Circulation of Cantonese Capital in Wartime East Asia 1931-1949,” Tongyang sahak yŏngu 127(2014)
18.“Chinese Socialism under the age of G2 – Opening Policy from historical perspective,” Yŏksa pip’yŏng106(2014)
19.“Enforcement of immigration control in Colonial Korea and Nationalism in Chinese media,” Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu 59 (2013) 
20.“The Circulation of Cantonese capital in war-time East Asia, 1931-1949,” Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu 58 (2013)
21.“General Trend of Overseas Chinese Issues in Korea before and after Mukden Incident,” Tongyang sahak yŏngu 120(2012) 
22.“The Change of Sugar circulation structure in modern East Asian market-the case of Chinese merchant in Korea, Tongshuntai,”Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu 52(2011) 
23.“The Rise of China and Rewriting world history-from California school to Global Hegemony theory,” Yŏksa-wa Kyŏnggye80(2011) 
24.“The Grey zone between World System and National State: the achievements and limitation of East Asian Discourse,” Inmun yŏngu 57(2009) 
25. “Chinese Lottery Business and the Tongshuntai firm: East Asian Trade Networks and Korea in the early 20thcentury,”Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu 40(2008) 
26.“Patterns of Sino-Korean trade operated by Chinese Merchants in Korea in the modern transition era: the analysis of Tongshutai-baogaoji,” Tongyang sahak yŏngu 105(2008) 
27.“East Asia rewrites World History: Kenneth Pomeranz and California School,” Yŏksa pip’yŏng82 (2008) 
28.“Humane Migration and products circulation in history of Modern East Asian economy,” Yŏksa pip’yŏng79 (2007) 
29.“Era of imperialism and economic modernization of East Asia: Reconsideration and perspective of colonial modernization theory,” Yŏksa Hakpo194 (2007) 
30.“Unknown territory of modern Asian economy studies: Papers of the Chinese firm Tongshuntai in Seoul National University Document Archives,” Tongyang sahak yŏngu100 (Month? 2007). 
31.“Canton-network and overseas Chinese firm, Tongshuntai,” Sahak yŏngu88 (2007) 
32.“Socialist industrialization in China and Soviet Union, and postwar legacies of Manchuria,” Hyŏndae Chungguk yŏngu8:1 (2006) 
33.“A comparison of Chinese trade structures in colonial Taiwan and colonial Korea,” Taegu sahak81 (2005) 
34.“Chinese economy and the world system from the 16th through the 19th centuries: theories of the 19th Century Divergence and Sino-centrism,” Ehwa sahak yŏngu31 (December 2004) 
35.“Song Ziwen and Reconstruction of provincial industries in Guangdong during the Chinese Civil war.” Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu24 (December 2004) 
36.“Rethinking of tradition and modernity in financial reform in Modern China: Management and reality of tax farming system in Guangdong province in the 1930s.” Inmun nonch’ong50 (December 2003) 
37.“Center and Local in the financial integration process of China in the 1930s: disorganization of local currency in Guangdong province.” Chungguk Hakpo46 (December 2002) 
38.“Shantou incident in Guangdong: State power and private finance in the financial reform of China in the 1930s.” Chungguk kŭnhyŏndaesa yŏngu16 (December 2002) 
39.“Collapse of currency control in Guangdong province in the 1930s: Financial crisis and the Small money system.” Kyŏngje sahak30 (September 2001) 
40.“Debates over taxation on import rice in Guangdong province and Nanjing government in the 1930s.” Tongyang sahak yŏngu 75 (July 2001)

● PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Hanyang University(September 2019~ )
Associate Professor, Hanyang University(September 2015~August 2019)
Assistant Professor, UNIST(Feb. 2010~ August. 2015)
Research Professor, School of Humanities, University of Kyung-Hee(July 2008-Feb. 2010)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York in Stony Brook(September 2009-December 2009)
Lecturer at University of Korea/University of Kukmin/Seoul National University

● EDUCATION

Ph.D. Universityof Bielefeld, May 2005
Major Field: Contemporary German History
Adviser: Prof. Ute Frevert(Director of Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
M.A.  Seoul National University(SNU), Feb. 1999
Major Field: Modern German History
Adviser: Prof. Byung-Jik, Ahn
B.A. SNU, Feb. 1996
Major: Western History

● PUBLICATIONS

* Monograph

독일현대정치사: 아데나워에서 메르켈까지, 기민련을 통해 본 정당국가 독일(서울: 이음출판사, 2022)
주택, 시장보다 국가: 독일주택정책 150년(이음, 2022)
Wie viel Geld für wie viel Leistung?(Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, 2006)

* Book Chapter

The Contribution of West German Christian Churches to the Democratization of Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, in: Joan Miyang Cho(ed), German–East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics since 1945(Routledge, 2021)
An analysis of the debate over conscientious objection in Korea, in: Donald Baker(ed.), Critical Readings on Christianity in Korea, Vol. II, Chapter 27(Brill Publishing House, 2014), 243~274
최재인 외 공저, 『19세기 허스토리』(마농지, 2022)
이재연 외 공저, 『세계 디지털 인문학의 현황과 전망』(커뮤니케이션 북스, 2019) 
이재승, 한인섭 공저, 『양심적 병역거부와 대체복무제』(서울, 경인문화사, 2013)
최재인 외 8인 공저, 『서양여성 근대를 달리다』(서울, 푸른 역사, 2011)
박상철 외 15인 공저, 『꿈은 소멸하지 않는다』(서울: 한겨레 출판, 2007)

* Translation

Dietrich Orlow, 『독일현대사(A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present)』(미지북스, 2019)
『여성의 권리 옹호(Vindication of the Rights of Women)』(책세상, 2011)
나종석 외, 『일상사란 무엇인가(Die Alltagsgeschichte)』(청년사,  2002)

* Articles

KCI(Korean Citation Index):

「베를린의 디지털 역사학 ― 현대사 연구소와 훔볼트 대학 디지털 역사 연구소 ―」, 『사림』, 90집(2024년 11월)
「‘생명(Leben)’ 對 ‘인간다움(Menschlichkeit)’: 서독에서 ‘낙태와 형법 218조를 둘러싼 논의’」, 『서양사연구』 70집, (2024년 3월).
「지속성과 확장성: 2021~2022년 독일사 연구」, 『역사학보』 259, (2023년 9월)
「바이마르의 주거난 해소를 위한 모색들 - ‘주택강제경제(Wohnungszwangswirtschaft)’와 ‘주택이자세(Hauszinssteuer)’를 중심으로 -」, 『역사학보』, 254집(2022년 7월)
「나치 이후의 ‘개인’의 자리: 서독에서 병역거부에 대한 논의를 중심으로」, 『역사문제연구』, 45집(2021년 7월)
「독일 여성운동의 시원, 루이제 오토」, 『독일연구』, 34집(2020년 12월)
「국가와 폭력」, 『역사비평』, 132집(2020년 6월)
「독일어권의 디지털 역사학 현황」, 『역사학보』, 240집(2018년 12월)
「독일여성운동의 시원, 루이제 오토」, 『서양사연구』, 59집(2018년 11월), 45~81
「독일 역사주의의 긴 그림자」, 『아시아리뷰』, 7-1집(2018년 2월), 151~179 
「“수상선거협회”에서 정당으로: 야당으로서의 기민련」, 『역사교육논집』, 64집(2017년 8월), 277~311
「1949~1969 기민련의 선거 캠페인 분석」, 『사림』, 61집(2017년 7월), 403~430. 
「독일 정치자금 관련 법규들과 기민련의 재무구조」, 『이화사학』, 52집(2016), 131~169 
「기민련 정권의 주택정책분석」, 『서양사론』, 119집(2013), 95~129
「군사개혁가 볼프 폰 바우디신과 1950년대 서독연방군 개혁」, 『역사와 세계』, 40집(2011년 12월), 237~267 
「라인강 활용 정책의 변화: 생산 요소에서 생명체로」, 『전북사학』, 37집(2010년 10월), 309~329
「근대 국가와 운하 건설: 빌헬름 제국기를 중심으로」, 『사림』, 33집(2009년 6월), 389~414
「전후 서독의 양심적 병역거부에 대한 논의」, 『역사와 문화』, 17집(2009년 3월), 106~133 
「릴리 브라운: 한 귀족 여성 사회주의자의 초상」, 『서양사연구』, 39집(2008년 11월), 51~73
「감정으로의 전환?」, 『서양사론』, 96집(2008년 3월), 259-282 
「20세기 독일과 덴마크의 국경분쟁 문제」, 『역사교육』, 103집(2007년 9월), 307~334
「법의 성중립성에 대한 고찰」, 『서양사론』, 91집(2006년 12월), 221~246
「전후 서독에서의 여성임금 논의에 대한 개념사적 접근」, 『독일연구』, 11집(2006년 6월), 71~94
「독일근현대사 해석틀의 변화」, 『인문논총』, 54집(2005년 12월), 45~72

SSCI & A&HCI:

“Property Dispute after German Reunification.” European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, University of Tokyo, Vol. 22, December 2022.
“Creating legitimacy through media discourse: German press reporting on the Japanese colonization of Korea, 1905~1910”, Acta Koreana, (Published by Keimyung University, A&HCI), Vol. 22-2(Dec. 2019)
“German Newspaper reports on the Japanese colonization of Korea during 1905 and 1910”, Media History(published by Taylor & Francis, Scopus)
“A Portrait of a Japanese history professor at Keijo Imperial University, Korea”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies(published by Taylor & Francis, A&HCI), (2019)
“Femininity without Feminism”, Asian Journal of Social Science(published by NUS, Singapore, SSCI), Vol.43(2015), p. 249~272(2015, May/June)
“German Discourse on Korea during the Era of Japanese Imperialism”, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies(published by SNU, SCOPUS), Vol. 27-2(2014), p. 241~267
“An analysis of the debate over conscientious objection in Korea”, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies(published by SNU, A&HCI)
,  Vol. 25-2(2012), p. 243~275
“The German Social Democratic Party and the Debate on the fertility decline in the German Empire(1870~1918)”, Korean Journal of Medical History Vol. 20(published by Yonsei University, A&HCI), (2011.12), 555-589
“The Frauenlohnfrage in der fruehen Bundesrepublik: Gleiche Arbeit vs. gleiche Leistung?”, Feministische Studien(published by De Gruyter, SSCI), 23(2)(Nov. 2005), 199-213

* Reviews

「근대 한국학의 기원, 다시 살펴보기 – 육영수, 『근대한국학의 뿌리와 갈래 : 서양 선교사, 일본 관학자, 조선 지식인을 연결하기 또는 다시 뒤섞기』」, 『역사학보』, 265집(2025년 3월)
「반드시, 사회주택(최경호, 『어쩌면, 사회주택』), 『도시사학회』, 38집(2025년 월)
「감정적인 역사가의 감정사」, 『역사학보』, 262집(2024년 7월)
「‘다시 타는 목마름으로’ - 김민철, 『누가 민주주의를 두려워하는가』 서평」, 『서양사연구』, 90집(2024년 7월).
「소주의 세계사」, 『역사연구』, (2023년 1월).
「앨버트 린드먼, 현대유럽의 역사」, 『서양사론』, 137집(2018년 6월), 240~246. 
「“Berlin Koreans and Pictured Koreans”」, Pacific Affairs(SSCI), 90-2집(2017년 6월), 379~381
「요하네스 링케(Johannes Linke), 한국에서 경제지리적 관계들의 변화(Veränderung der wirtschaftsgeographischen Beziehungen in Korea)」, 『독일연구』, 28집(2014), 259~264 
「고유경, 독일사 깊이 읽기」, 『독일연구』, 34집(2017), 225~231. 
「베를린 한국인들과 사진찍힌 한국인들」, 『역사학보』, 230집(2016년 6월), 281~296. 
「전진성, 상상의 아테네, 베를린/도쿄/서울: 기억과 건축이 빚어낸 불협화음의 문화사」, 『독일연구』, 31(2016년 2월), 241~249 
「김학이, 나치즘과 동성애(Nazism and Homosexuality)」, 『교수신문』, 2014 
「설혜심, 그랜드 투어」, 『서양사론』, 117집(2013), 236~240 
「요아힘 라트카우(Joachim Radkau), 자연과 권력(Nature and Power)」, 『독일연구』, 24집(2012년 12월), 191~200
「리처드 세넷(Richard Sennett), 살과 돌(Flesh and Stone)」, 『도시사연구』, 1집(2009), 229~238
「메리 비스너-헹크스(Mary E. Wiesner-Hanks), 젠더의 역사(Gender in History)」, 『역사교육』, 101집(2007년 3월), 329-333

● FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS

Ph. D. Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD), October 2000- March 2005. 

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My research focuses on modern and contemporary German history, with particular attention to political culture, military culture, housing policy, digital history, and the transnational entanglements between Germany and Korea. I also have maintained a long-standing interest in women’s history. 

My recent monographs include “German Contemporary Political History: From Adenauer to Merkel” (Yukbi, 2023) and “The State over Market: 150 Years of German Housing Policy” (Ieum, 2022), both of which examine the evolution of Germany’s political and social system to the present. My first book in German, “Wie viel Geld für wie viel Leistung?” (Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, 2006), analyzed gendered labor discourses and wage debates in postwar West Germany. 

In addition to a number of articles published in journals such as Feministische Studien, Acta Koreana, Interventions, Asian Journal of Social Science, and Media History etc., I have contributed to edited volumes on German-East Asian cultural and political exchange, conscientious objection in Korea, women’s history and digital history methodologies.

I have received fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and held research appointments at SUNY Stony Brook, the University of Kyung-Hee, and the Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University. 

Before joining Hanyang University in 2015, I served as an assistant professor at UNIST. I was also lecturer at Korea University, SNU, and Kookmin University. 

Currently, I co-organize a digital history workshop series in partnership with colleagues at Humboldt University and Sophia University in Tokyo. In addition, I collaborate with ZEDES at Chung-Ang University to lead study groups on Western women's history and modern German history.

I received my Ph.D. in Contemporary German History from Bielefeld University under the supervision of Prof. Ute Frevert, following my M.A. and B.A. degrees in Modern Western History at Seoul National University. 

Prospective graduate students with research interests in the history of modern Germany, gender history, or digital methods in the humanities are warmly encouraged to get in touch.

I studied at Korea University in Seoul for master’s and PhD degree in Korean history. My master’s thesis, drawing on setions on local produce in the geographical records of the Annals of King Sejoing, examines regional features of the tributary taxation in the early Joseon period. My PhD dissertation explores the operational features of the tribute system in conjunction with the changing aspects of the Gongan(貢案), the fiscal ledger of the state during the early Joseon period. 

After receiving doctoral degree, I served as a research fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University (2017) and at the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (2018-2019). Then I was elected as a scholarship recipient of the Sinjiphyeonjeon Taekaksa programme at the Academy of Korean Studies to carry out research for three years. In 2022, I joined the Department of History at Hanyang University.

My research pays attention to the characteristics of early Joseon state finance, particularly through the lens of the in-kind tribute system known as gongnap. I also have a broad interest in various governance institutions, including fiscal administration, the civil service examination system, the bureaucracy, and state rituals. Recently, I launched a new initiative to reclassify taxation categories in the Joseon dynasty, departing from existing scholarship. Based on it, I aim to provide a macro-level perspective on fiscal management in early Joseon. 

I welcome research student of Joseon dynasty, particularly interested in state, finance, econom, and governance institutions of early Joseon before the Imjin War.
 

I am a transnational historian of China and Inner Asia. My research in transnational Asian history focuses on three multiethnic empires: the Mongol-Yuan Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Zunghar (or West Mongolian) Empire—the last steppe empire—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Manchu-Qing Empire from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
My current book project, based on my dissertation, examines the state formation of the Zunghar Empire, the last great steppe empire between China, Inner Asia, and Russia. By drawing upon Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Oirad (West Mongolian), Russian, and Persian sources, this research challenges the conventional view that pre-state “tribal” society was the norm on the steppe, where a true state could develop only occasionally due to external impacts—political, economic, or military—from neighboring agrarian states, such as China. Instead, I show that the formation of the centralized Zunghar state emerged from long-term internal political dynamics, through which various forms of state structures were continuously devised and implemented. This monograph will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of Asian history by de-Sinicizing the transnational history of the Sino-Inner Asian borderlands.
My investigation of the Mongol-Yuan Empire has focused on transcontinental interactions between Yuan China, the Chaghatay Khanate of Central Asia, and the Ilkhanid Middle East. One of my articles, published in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, explicated the foundational infrastructure for cross-cultural exchanges in the Mongol World Empire, namely, postal relay routes installed across China, Mongolia, and Central Asia. Due to this research, I was invited to contribute a book chapter on the Mongol postal relay system for the volume The Mongol World, edited by Timothy May and Michael Hope.
My research on the Manchu-Qing Empire has explored the Qing’s transnational relationships with its Inner Asian neighbors. By using Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, and Oirad sources, I surveyed how the Oirad people perceived the Manchus in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and how the Manchu conquest of China affected the Oirads’ view of the Qing Empire. This study was published in the Manchu studies journal Saksaha. I also investigated the Zunghar conquest of Central Tibet (1716-1720) and its ramifications on Tibetan military institutions under Qing control, highlighting the trilateral interactions between the Qing, Tibetans, and Zunghars. This research appeared as an article in the Tibetan studies journal Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines.
My future research will continue to pursue transnational Asian history. First, I will explore the medium of intellectual exchanges between Yuan China and the Ilkhanid Middle East, arguing that the Mongolian language and Mongol elites played a central role in transmitting various information and knowledge between China and the Middle East. This study will challenge conventional wisdom that has underestimated the Mongols’ agency in cross-cultural interactions in Mongol Eurasia. I will also examine international trade relations between the Qing, Zunghar, and Russian empires. By using Chinese, Manchu, and Russian archives, this research will discuss various features of the early modern “Silk Road.” This study ultimately aims to reassess the conventional notion that overland trade along the traditional Silk Road declined during the early modern era in favor of maritime trade between Asia and Europe.
I welcome graduate students interested in any aspect of the transnational history of China and Inner Asia, particularly the Mongol-Yuan Empire, the Four Oirad Confederation, the Zunghar Empire, and the Manchu-Qing Empire.

Having read Philosophy and Western History at Korea University, Dr. Kim received PhD in economic history at the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on the history of the offshore market for US dollars, or the Euromarket, in the late twentieth century. His doctoral thesis examines contested features of the nascent market to contend how the national sovereignty underpinned the re-emergence of global finance before the age of neoliberalism. It also analyses the changing assumption regarding capital mobility within the context of contemporary politics such as the demise of Bretton Woods, European integration, the Cold War, and the growthmanship in the Global South. After his doctoral programme, Dr. Kim explored the relations between European international banks and authoritarian regimes in the Global South with case studies of the two Koreas and South Africa as a research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute from 2019-2023. Then he was elected as a Browaldh Postdoc at the economic history department of Uppsala University, where he initiated two projects; how social democrats in the Global North, in collaboration with developing countries, imagined alternative visions of Bretton Woods to facilitate the development of the Global South at UN organizations from the 1960s to the 1980s; and the (re)entry of the communist China in the global financial market at the City of London. After Kyungpook National University, in 2025, he joined the department of history at Hanyang University. His research includes the history of global finance and central banking, the global history of neoliberal and libertarian movement, social studies of cryptocurrency, external economic relations between North Korea and Western Europe (particularly Sweden), and the public history. His latest works have been published in Cold War History and International History Review. He also translated Crack-up capitalism: Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy (2024) into Korean.

Dr. Kim welcomes postgraduate students in the history of finance, international banks and the two Korea in the late twentieth century, historical relations between finance and society, and the history of global neoliberal movement.
 

Having read Philosophy and Western History at Korea University, Dr. Kim received PhD in economic history at the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on the history of the offshore market for US dollars, or the Euromarket, in the late twentieth century. His doctoral thesis examines contested features of the nascent market to contend how the national sovereignty underpinned the re-emergence of global finance before the age of neoliberalism. It also analyses the changing assumption regarding capital mobility within the context of contemporary politics such as the demise of Bretton Woods, European integration, the Cold War, and the growthmanship in the Global South. After his doctoral programme, Dr. Kim explored the relations between European international banks and authoritarian regimes in the Global South with case studies of the two Koreas and South Africa as a research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute from 2019-2023. Then he was elected as a Browaldh Postdoc at the economic history department of Uppsala University, where he initiated two projects; how social democrats in the Global North, in collaboration with developing countries, imagined alternative visions of Bretton Woods to facilitate the development of the Global South at UN organizations from the 1960s to the 1980s; and the (re)entry of the communist China in the global financial market at the City of London. After Kyungpook National University, in 2025, he joined the department of history at Hanyang University. His research includes the history of global finance and central banking, the global history of neoliberal and libertarian movement, social studies of cryptocurrency, external economic relations between North Korea and Western Europe (particularly Sweden), and the public history. His latest works have been published in Cold War History and International History Review. He also translated Crack-up capitalism: Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy (2024) into Korean.

Dr. Kim welcomes postgraduate students in the history of finance, international banks and the two Korea in the late twentieth century, historical relations between finance and society, and the history of global neoliberal movement.