Emanuel Pastreich

Emanuel Pastreich
Born	Emanuel Pastreich (1964-10-16) October 16, 1964 Nashville, Tennessee
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A.) University of Tokyo (M.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Professor, director
Website	http://circlesandsquares.asia/

Emanuel Pastreich (born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1964) is an American academic mainly active in Korea. Pastreich is an associate professor at Kyung Hee University^[1][2] and director of The Asia Institute in Seoul, who writes on both East Asian classical literature^[3][4][5][6] and current issues in international relations and technology.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Biography

Pastreich attended Lowell High School in San Francisco, graduating in 1983. He began his studies at Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in Chinese in 1987,^[11] and during college studied abroad at National Taiwan University.^[12] Pastreich obtained an M.A. in comparative literature at the University of Tokyo in 1991,^[13] where he wrote the master’s dissertation, Edo kôki bunjin Tanomura Chikuden: Muyô no shiga" (The Late Edo Literatus Tanomura Chikuden; The Uselessness of Painting and Poetry), entirely in Japanese. He then returned to the United States and in 1998 received his Ph.D. in East Asian studies at Harvard University.^[14] He served as assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,^[15][16] George Washington University,^[15] and Solbridge International School of Business.^[17] Pastreich is an associate professor at the College of International Studies, Kyung Hee University.^[1][2]

Government public service

Pastreich previously served as an international relations adviser to the governor of Chungnam Province,^[18] as an external relations adviser at the Daedeok Innopolis research cluster,^[19] and was appointed to serve on the committee for city administration (2010-2011) and for foreign investment (2009-2010) for the city of Daejeon.^[20][21]

Work

Pastreich is director of The Asia Institute, a think tank that conducts research on the intersection of international relations, the environment^[22][23] and technology in East Asia.^[7] Previously, he served as advisor for international relations and foreign investment to the governor of Chungnam Province (2007-2008).^[24] Pastreich served previously as director of the KORUS House (2005-2007), a think tank for international relations housed in the Korean Embassy in Washington D.C., and as the editor-in-chief of Dynamic Korea,^[25][26] a journal of the Korean Foreign Ministry that introduces Korean culture and society.

His writings include the books The Novels of Park Jiwon: Translations of Overlooked Worlds, a collection of the novels of Korea's critical pre-modern author, The Visible Vernacular: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan, a study of the reception of Chinese vernacular literature in Japan, and Earth Management: A Dialogue on Ancient Korean Wisdom and its Lessons for a New Earth.^[27] His Korean publications include Life is a Matter of Direction, not Speed: A Robinson Crusoe in Korea, a description of his experiences living in Korea, Scholars of the World Speak out About Korea's Future,^[28] a series of interviews with leading scholars such as Francis Fukuyama, Larry Wilkerson and Noam Chomsky about contemporary Korea,^[7] and Earth Management: Finding the Answer in the Hongik Tradition,^[29] a consideration of the importance of traditional culture in an age of ecological crisis. His Chinese publication is Searching for the Truth on Both Sides of the Ocean,^[30] in which he suggests a new paradigm for Sino-American relations and explores the value of traditional Chinese culture.

Bibliography

Books

• The Novels of Park Jiwon: Translations of Overlooked Worlds (2011). Seoul: Seoul National University Press. ISBN 8952111761.
• The Visible Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan (2011). Seoul: Seoul National University Press. ISBN 895211177X.
• (in Korean) Insaeng eun sokdo ga anira banghyang ida: Habeodeu baksa eui hanguk pyoryugi (Life is a Matter of Direction, Not of Speed: Records of a Robinson Crusoe in Korea) (2011). London: Nomad Books. ISBN 978-89-91794-56-6-03810.
• (in Korean) Segye seokhak deul hanguk eui mirae reul mal hada (Scholars of the World Speak Out About Korea’s Future) (2012). Seoul: Dasan Books. ISBN 978-89-6370-072-4
• (in Korean) Han'gukin man moreu neun dareun daehan min'guk (A Different Republic of Korea—About which only Koreans are Ignorant) (2013).^[31] Seoul: 21 Segi Books. ISBN 978-89-509-5108-5
• Selected Publications of The Asia Institute (2013). Seoul: The Asia Institute Press. ISBM 109788996984801.
• Earth Management: A Dialogue on Ancient Korean Wisdom and Its Lessons for a New Earth (2016); co-authored with Lee Ilchi. Seoul: Best Life Media. ISBN 9781935127895.
• (in Korean) Jigugyeongyoung Hongik e seo dap eul chatda (Earth Management: Finding the Answer in the Hongik tradition; co-authored with Lee Ilchi) (2016). Seoul: Hanmun Hwa. ISBN 9788956992860.
• (in Chinese) Kuahai qiuzhen: Hafo boshi lun zhongmei weilai (Searching for the Truth on Both Sides of the Ocean) (2016). Hong Kong: Milky Way Publishers. ISBN 9789996549427.

See also

• List of people from Nashville
• List of Sinologists

References

External links

• Circles and Squares bio
• Emanuel Pastreich faculty homepage