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DESCRIPTION:“National seclusion\,” which sees “premodern” Asian soc
 ieties as being isolated from the world before their incorporation into th
 e modern world by nineteenth-century Western empires\, remains a powerful 
 paradigm in historiography on Asia. Although scholars have recently debunk
 ed this myth of isolation\, their revisionist accounts are limited by meth
 odological nationalism and fall short of developing a regional perspective
 . Moreover\, recent scholarship on interactions across East Asia tends to 
 focus on the material and textual interactions of elite Confucian literati
 . \n \nIn this panel\, we widen our scope by employing sources from multip
 le contexts and explore how knowledge and skills moved across Asia. Lina N
 ie examines how diverse players in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 
 used pirates as a diplomatic weapon competing for power. H. H. Kang’s pa
 per traces how the Jesuit science of machines was translated\, reinvented\
 , and localized across China and Korea between the seventeenth and ninetee
 nth centuries\, showing that Korean thinkers benefited from the productive
  distance to reimagine and reinvent it. Jaymin Kim compares legal codes in
  Chosŏn\, Qing\, and Nguyễn states\, highlighting the complex processes
  of translation and negotiation that sustained Sinitic law as a regional l
 egal system. By looking at migrant Cantonese woodworkers between Guangdong
  and Bengal during the nineteenth century\, Kyoungjin Bae argues this vern
 acular craft culture generated a spectacular globality through mobility an
 d adaptation. Together\, these papers show that intra- and inter-regional 
 mobility continued across our conventional premodern-modern division.
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LOCATION:Room 208 (Seats 40)
SUMMARY:From “National Seclusion” to Open Societies: Movement of Knowle
 dge and Skills Across Eurasia - Jaymin Kim\, Seonmin Kim\, Kyoungjin Bae\,
  H. H. Kang\, Lina Nie
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/PTVTGK/
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