Position:

University Lecturer in Korean History; Fellow of Wolfson College

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Wolfson College

Email:

jay.lewis@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• History of Korean-Japanese relations prior to 1850
• Cultural, economic, and social histories of premodern Korea and Japan
• World history; environmental and epidemiological history of East Asia

Current Projects:

• Editing a collection of conference papers for a volume entitled The Imjin Waeran -- Hideyoshi's Invasion of Korea: Problems and Perspectives.
• Collaborating on various papers in Korean economic history and preparing a monograph entitled, An Economic History of Korea, 1400 to 1900.
• Translating and writing commentary on Amenomori Hôshû's Kôrin Teisei (1728).

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Korean history (lectures requiring no knowledge of an Asian anguage).
• Korean history through the classics (in classical Chinese, modern Korean or Japanese translation).
• Methods in Koreanology.
• Participating lecturer in East Asia Survey: Premodern Period.
• Participating lecturer in East Asia Survey: Modern Period.
• Japanese history before 1868.

Recent Publications:

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• Frontier contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003. (ISBN: 0-7007-1301-8).
• "The Trade with Japan and the Economy of Kyŏngsang Province," and "Guest Editor's Introduction" for theme issue on Korean trade with Japan in Acta Koreana No. 7:1 (2004): 1-7; 47-68.
• "Accounting Techniques in Korea: 18th-century Archival Samples from a Non-Profit Association in the Sinitic World". Co-authored with SH Jun. Accounting Historians Journals, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June, 2006): 53-87.
• "Wages, Rents, and Interest Rates in southern Korea, 1700 to 1900". Co-authored with SH Jun. Research in Economic History, University of California, No. 24 (2006):221-281.
• “Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith”. Co-authored with S.H. Jun and HR Kang. Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68, No. 1 (March 2008): 1-40.
• ‘Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith’. Co-authored with S.H. Jun and HR Kang. Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68, No. 1 (March 2008): 244-282. ISSN: 0022-0507.
• ‘Stability or Decline? Demand or Supply?’ Co-authored with S.H. Jun and H.R. Kang. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, No. 4 (December 2009): 1143-1150. ISSN: 0022-0507.
• 「문명의 가격?—17~19세기 조선의 일본으로의 사절의 역할과 비용」(What Price Civilization?—Functions and Costs of Korean Embassies to Japan, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries)『대동문화연구』(Dae Dong Mun Hwa Yon Gu, The Journal of Eastern Studies) Seoul: Taedong munhwa yŏn’guwŏn, Sŏnggyungwan taehakkyo, Tong Asia Haksulwŏn 68 (2009): 43-80. (in Korean) (ISSN: 1225-3820)