Don L. Baker, University of British Columbia
Asian Studies
Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia
don.baker@ubc.ca
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(604) 822-4478
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He received his Ph.D. in Korean history from the University of Washington and has taught at UBC since 1987. He teaches the department’s introduction to Asian civilizations for first-year students as well as undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and thought (religion, philosophy, an...
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He received his Ph.D. in Korean history from the University of Washington and has taught at UBC since 1987. He teaches the department’s introduction to Asian civilizations for first-year students as well as undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and thought (religion, philosophy, and pre-modern science). In addition, he teaches a graduate seminar on the reproduction of historical trauma in Asia, in which he leads graduate students in an examination of how traumatic events in Asia in the 20th century, such as the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the bombing of Hiroshima, partition of India, China’s Cultural Revolution, and the killing fields of Cambodia have been reproduced in eyewitness accounts, historiography, fiction, and film.
He was a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Korean Civilization and is also the author of Joseon hugi yugyo wa cheonjugyo eui taerip (The Confucian confrontation with Catholicism in the latter half of the Joseon dynasty). His most recent book is Korean Spirituality (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). In 2008, he was awarded the Tasan prize for his research on Tasan Chong Yagyong, a writer and philosopher in Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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He was a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Korean Civilization and is also the author of Joseon hugi yugyo wa cheonjugyo eui taerip (The Confucian confrontation with Catholicism in the latter half of the Joseon dynasty). His most recent book is Korean Spirituality (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). In 2008, he was awarded the Tasan prize for his research on Tasan Chong Yagyong, a writer and philosopher in Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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