Joo-hyeon Oh
271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Joo-hyeon Oh is a historian of the cultural and intellectual history of 16th-19th century China. Her research focuses on late imperial Chinese debates about how to gain knowledge about how the world outside the moral self works and what can possibly exist and happen in that world. She is particularly interested in examining the ways of seeing, experiencing, and thinking about the world that emerge from the works of Neo-Confucian thinkers. These thinkers, who were also deeply influenced by Buddhist and Daoist thought and practice, and who were aware of the knowledge introduced to China by the Jesuits, wrote about cosmology, metaphysics, and a wide range of "things," including trees and plants, insects and animals, stationaries and antique goods, sound and light, ghosts and spirits, and all sorts of strange phenomena that people claimed to have seen or heard.
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University, 2023
- B.A.: History, University of California, Berkeley, 2014