Ksenia Chizhova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ksenia Chizhova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ksenia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chizhova |
| SIGNATURE | CHIZHOVA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Virtue That Matters
(Modern) Palace Women in Colonial Korea
Crucial to the operations of the Korean court, palace women possessed special status during the history of this institution: the marriage prohibition placed them outside the traditional kinship network, and their lives, in contrast to those of most other women, were defined by the professional skills they acquired through service. This article conjures palace women as unlikely subjects of Korean colonial modernity—the early twentieth-century tran…
How Three Kingdoms Became a National Novel of Korea
Political Moods
Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan
What is a mountain? According to Maya Stiller's study of elite travel during the late Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Mount Kŭmgang in Northern Kangwŏn Province of modern-day North Korea was a performative locus for the articulation of elite identity through travel, landscape carving, and intertextual exchange. A prized site of pilgrimage, which was originally accessible only to the most established elites, Mount Kŭmgang gradually became a key locati…
North Korean Calligraphy
A ubiquitous part of everyday life, North Korean calligraphy is an easily overlooked and yet integral element of the country’s mass mobilization art. Under the curation of Kim Jong Il (Kim Chŏngil, 1941–2011), calligraphy was mobilized as a mechanism for the articulation of organistic national unity centered on the ruling Kim family and captured through the idea of the “social and political living body” (sahoe chŏngch’i chŏk saengmyŏngch’e), whic…
The Power of the Brush
The Emotions of Justice
Book Review| October 01 2020 The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea by Kim, Jisoo M.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 224 pp. 15 illustrations, 1 map. $50.00 (hardback) Ksenia Chizhova Ksenia Chizhova Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Korean Studies (2020) 25 (…
Bodies of Texts
Men's references to women's writing in vernacular Korean script never term this practice "calligraphy," and yet articles of women's intricate brushwork reveal that in late Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) this was a highly aestheticized practice with recognized social importance and a meticulous training process. This article captures the moment when vernacular Korean scriptural practices ascended the elite canon, which resulted in the emergence of high …
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Bodies of Texts
Men's references to women's writing in vernacular Korean script never term this practice "calligraphy," and yet articles of women's intricate brushwork reveal that in late Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) this was a highly aestheticized practice with recognized social importance and a meticulous training process. This article captures the moment when vernacular Korean scriptural practices ascended the elite canon, which resulted in the emergence of high …
The Emotions of Justice
Book Review| October 01 2020 The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea by Kim, Jisoo M.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 224 pp. 15 illustrations, 1 map. $50.00 (hardback) Ksenia Chizhova Ksenia Chizhova Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Korean Studies (2020) 25 (…
The Power of the Brush
North Korean Calligraphy
A ubiquitous part of everyday life, North Korean calligraphy is an easily overlooked and yet integral element of the country’s mass mobilization art. Under the curation of Kim Jong Il (Kim Chŏngil, 1941–2011), calligraphy was mobilized as a mechanism for the articulation of organistic national unity centered on the ruling Kim family and captured through the idea of the “social and political living body” (sahoe chŏngch’i chŏk saengmyŏngch’e), whic…
Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan
What is a mountain? According to Maya Stiller's study of elite travel during the late Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Mount Kŭmgang in Northern Kangwŏn Province of modern-day North Korea was a performative locus for the articulation of elite identity through travel, landscape carving, and intertextual exchange. A prized site of pilgrimage, which was originally accessible only to the most established elites, Mount Kŭmgang gradually became a key locati…
(Modern) Palace Women in Colonial Korea
Crucial to the operations of the Korean court, palace women possessed special status during the history of this institution: the marriage prohibition placed them outside the traditional kinship network, and their lives, in contrast to those of most other women, were defined by the professional skills they acquired through service. This article conjures palace women as unlikely subjects of Korean colonial modernity—the early twentieth-century tran…
How Three Kingdoms Became a National Novel of Korea
Political Moods
Virtue That Matters
Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works)