Advisor: Sun Joo Kim

Yu Xie studies the legal history of pre-modern Korea. She received her B.A. in Korean Language and Literature from Peking University and her M.A. in Korean History from Seoul National University. Her master’s thesis focused on death penalty cases...

The Civilizing Project in Medieval Korea: Neo-Classicism, Nativism, and Figurations of Power

The Histories of Koryŏ: Their Production, Circulation, and Reception from the Chosŏn Dynasty to the Present

Protect the Pines, Punish the People: Forests and the State of Pre-Industrial Korea, 918-1897

Crafting Knowledge: Artisan, Officer, and the Culture of Making in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1592–1910

Taking Refuge in the Law: Monastic Litigation and a New History of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910)

Coping with the Cold: Nature and State on Chosŏn Korea’s Northern Frontier