Vortrag: Witnessing the Tae-Han Empire: Texts and Photographs by Isabella Bird, Burton Holmes, and Jack London (Prof. Dr. em. Burglind Jungmann)
Vortrag: Witnessing the Tae-Han Empire: Texts and Photographs by Isabella Bird, Burton Holmes, and Jack London (Prof. Dr. em. Burglind Jungmann)
The last decades of the Joseon dynasty (1392—1910) are remembered as a period of inner turbulences and the competition between foreign powers over their dominance of the Korean peninsula. Yet, during the crucial period from the mid-1880s to the early 1900s, Joseon was considered ready to independently enter the international arena. In the roughly twenty-five...