Emanuel Pastreich

Emanuel Past Reich ( born October 16, 1964 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a professor at Kyung -Hee University and Director of the Asia Institute. He writes and researches on East Asian literature as well as on current issues of politics, environment and technology.

Career

Past Reich attended Lowell High School in San Francisco, then from 1983 to 1987 Yale University, which he received a BA graduated in Chinese. Then he studied at the National Taiwan University and the University of Tokyo, where he earned a master's in 1991 in comparative literature. He wrote his master's thesis on Tanomura Chikuden in Japanese. The title was Edo Koki bunjin Tanomura Chikuden: Muyo no shiga ( The Late Edo literatus Tanomura Chikuden, The uselessness of Painting and Poetry ). In 1998, he graduated with a Ph.D. on East Asian literature from Harvard University. As an assistant professor, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, at George Washington University and the Solbridge International School of Business. Since 2011 he is professor at the College of International Studies, Kyung -Hee University in South Korea.

Political work in the public service

Past kingdom has worked from 2009 to 2012, both as an advisor to the governor of Chungnam Province of International Relations, as well as for the Daedeok Innopolis Science College and as a committee member of the city of Daejeon in the areas of administration and foreign investment.

Workspaces

Past Reich is Director of the Asian Institute, an NGO that explores the intersection of international relations, environmental issues and technology in East Asia. He has advised from 2007 to 2008, the governor of Chungnam Province in international relations and foreign investments. Prior to that, from 2005-2007, he was director of the KORUS House, an NGO of International Relations at the Korean Embassy in Washington DC and editor of Dynamic Korea, a magazine with a focus on Korean culture and society, which is published by the Korean Foreign Office. At Past Reich publications include books on East Asian literature such as The Novels of Park Jiwon: Translations of Overlooked Worlds, The Visible Vernacular: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan, Life is a Matter of Direction, not speed: a Robinson Crusoe in Korea, and Scholars of the World Speak out about Korea 's Future and a series of discussions with Francis Fukuyama, Larry Wilkerson and Noam Chomsky on current topics concerning Korea.

Bibliography

  • The Novels of Park Jiwon: Translations of Overlooked Worlds. Seoul National University Press, Seoul 2011, ISBN 978-89-521-1176-0. (English )
  • The Visible Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan. Seoul National University Press, Seoul 2011, ISBN 978-89-521-1177-7. (English )
  • Insaeng eun Sokudo Anira banghyang ida: Habodeu Baksa eui hanguk pyoryugi. ( Life is a Matter of Direction, Not of speed. Records of a Robinson Crusoe in Korea) Nomad Books, Seoul 2011, ISBN 978-89-91794-56-6. ( korean. )
  • Segye seokhak hanguk Mirae reul times hada. ( Scholars of the World Speak Out About Korea 's Future. ) Dasan Books, Seoul 2012, ISBN 978-89-6370-072-4. ( korean. )
  • Han'gukin you Moreu nine dareun Daehan min'guk ( A Different Republic of Korea About Which Only Koreans are ignorant ) ( 2013). Seoul: 21 Segi Books. ISBN 978-89-509-5108-5 ( korean. )
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