(on sabbatical)

Dr. Adam Bohnet

Associate Professor

Phone: 4580
Email: abohnet@uwo.ca
Website: http://bohnet.kingsfaculty.ca

Dr. Adam Bohnet is an Associate Professor in History at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. He received his BA in Classics from the University of Alberta, his MA from Kangwon National University in South Korea and his PhD from the University of Toronto. After completing his PhD in 2008, he worked at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Korea University in Seoul before coming to King’s in 2012.

Education

• BA, University of Alberta,
• MA, Kangwon National University, South Korea
• PhD, University of Toronto

Teaching

• Introduction to East Asian History (HIST1601E)
• Peppers, Pirates and Priests (HIST 2650E)
• Early Modern Korea (History 3620 F/G)
• Late Medieval Korea (History 3621 F/G)
• State and Market (History 3636 F/G)
• Korean Wave and Beyond (History 2166 A/B)

Research

• The Cultural and Social History of Choson Korea
• Early Modern East Asia
• Foreign Affairs and Borders in Early Modern East Asia
• Global Networks of Trade and Cultural Exchange, 1100-1800

Selected Publications

• Turning toward Edification Foreigners in Chosŏn Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020.
• “Lies, Rumours and Sino-Korean Relations: The Pseudo-Fujianese Incident of 1687.” Acta Koreana 19 no. 2 (2016): 1–29.
• “Subversive Ming Loyalist Narratives in Late Chos?n Korea.” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 25, no. 1 (June, 2012):  1-31.
• “From Liaodongese Refugee to Ming Loyalist: The Historiography of the Sanggok Ma, a Ming Migrant Descent Group in Late Choson Korea.” Review of Korean Studies 15, no. 1 (June 2012): 109-139.
• “Ruling Ideology and Marginal Subjects: Ming Loyalism and Foreign Lineages in Late Choson Korea.” Journal of Early Modern History 15, no. 6 (December 2011): 477-505.
• “ ‘On Either Side the River:’ The Rise of the Manchu State and Choson’s Jurchen Subjects.” Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia 9 (2008): 111-125.
• “Matteo Ricci and Nicholas Trigault’s Description of the Literati of China.” Quaderni D’Italianistica 21: 2 (September 2000): 77-92.